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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.86
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
01a4a5c5 15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
cb1d7830 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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32JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
33 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
34 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
35 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
36 have a dsn_lasthop option.
37
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38JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
39 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 40 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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42JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
43
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44JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
45 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
46
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47JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
48 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
49
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50JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
51 /defer_ok option.
52
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53JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
54 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
55
fd4d8871 56JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 57 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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58 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
59
60JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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61 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
62 specify a port-range.
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64JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
65 timeout value per server.
66
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67JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
68 now have the list separator specified.
69
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70JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
71 option values.
72
82c0c8ea 73JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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74 under OpenSSL.
75
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76JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
77
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78JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
79 rather than the verbs used.
80
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81JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
82 from 255 to 1024 chars.
83
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84JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
85
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86HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
87 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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89JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
90 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
91
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92HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
93 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
94
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95JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
96
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97JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
98
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99JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
100 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
101 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
102 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
103
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104JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
105
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106JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
107 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
108
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109JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
110 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
111
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112JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
113
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114JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
115
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116JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
117
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119Exim version 4.85
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121TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
122 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
123 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
124 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
125 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
126 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
127 the script parsing/test process like normal.
128
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129TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
130 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
131 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
132 function when detected.
133
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134JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
135 cause callback expansion.
136
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137TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
138 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
139 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
140 instead of bool when processing it.
141
0f06b4f2 142JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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143 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
144
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145JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
146
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147JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
148
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149TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
150
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151TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
152 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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154JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
155 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
156 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
157 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
158 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
159 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
160
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161JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
162 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
163 exceeded it.
164
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165JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
166 version 3.3.6 or later.
167
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168JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
169 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
170 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 171 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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172 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
173 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
174 option is defined.
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176TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
177 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
178
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179JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
180 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
181 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
182 matches.
183
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184JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
185 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
186 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
187
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188JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
189 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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190
191JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
192 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
193 syntax errors.
194
3394b36a 195JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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197JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
198 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
199
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200TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
201 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
202 tarball.
203
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204JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
205
206JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
207 Bug 1561.
208
209JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
210 output list separator was used.
211
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213Exim version 4.84
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215TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
216 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
217 return.
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219JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
220 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
221
222JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
223
224TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 225 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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230
231TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
232
233 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
234 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
235 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
236 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
237 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
238 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
239
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240TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
241 utilities have not been installed.
242
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243JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
244 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
245
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246TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
247 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
248
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249TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
250 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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251 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
252 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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254JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
255
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256TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
257 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
258
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259PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
260 not dns_use_dnssec.
261
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262JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
263
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264TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
265 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
266 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
267
8ddef691 268TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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269 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
270 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
271 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
272 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 273 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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275JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
276
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277JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
278 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
279
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280JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
281 failed delivery.
282
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283JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
284
511a6c14 285JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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287JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
288 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
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290JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
291 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
292
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293TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
294
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295JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
296
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297JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
298 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
299
300 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
301 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
302 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
303
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304TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
305 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
306 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
307 analysis.
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309JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
310
8c51eead 311JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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312 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
313 lookup).
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315TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
316 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
317 Schlichting.
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fd3b6a4a 319JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 320 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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322TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
323 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
324
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325JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
326
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327TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
328 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
329 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
330
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331JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
332 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
333
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334JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
335 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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336 hosts_request_ocsp.
337
ed3bba5f 338JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 339 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 340 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 341
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342JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
343
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344TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
345 Christian Aistleitner.
346
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347JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
348
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349TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
350 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
351
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352JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
353 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
354
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355JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
356 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
357
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358TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
359 support and error reporting did not work properly.
360
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361TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
362 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
363
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364TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
365 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
366 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
367
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368JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
369
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370PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
371 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
372 Jasper Wallace.
373
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374JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
375
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376TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
377 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
378 CVE-2014-2972
379
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384PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
385
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386PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
387 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
388
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389PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
390 by GnuTLS.
391
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392PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
393 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
394 routines.
395
13363eba 396PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 397
66645890 398PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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399 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
400 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
401 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
402 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 404PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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405 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
406 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
407 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 408 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 409 Bugzilla 1117.
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d27f98fe 411TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 412
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413TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
414
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415TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
416 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
417
ae0e32ee 418TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 419 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 420 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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422TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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424TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
425
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426TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
427 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
428
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429JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
430
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431JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
432
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433PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
434
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435NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
436 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
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585121e2 438JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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440PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
441 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
442 function.
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444PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
445 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
446
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447JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
448 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
449 "acl = name arg..."
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451JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
452
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453JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
454
ea722490 455JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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456 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
457
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458JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
459 Bugzilla 884.
460
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461JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
462 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
463
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464JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
465 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
466
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467PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
468 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 469 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
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471JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
472 authenticators.
473
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474JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
475 for control.
476
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477PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
478
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479PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
480 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
481 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
482 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
483
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484TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
485
486 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
487 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
488 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
489 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
490 the retry rules.
491
492 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
493 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
494 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
495
496 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
497 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
498 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
499 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
500
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501 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
502 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
503 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
504 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
505 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
506 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
507 delivery, as in LMTP.
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508
509 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
510 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
511
326cdc37
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512TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
513
514 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
515
516 Resent-From: f
517
518 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
519 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
520 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
521 username as equal to the username.
522
523 This change corrects that bug.
524
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525GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
526 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
527 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
528
eb505532
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529TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
530
14c7b357
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531PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
532 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
533 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
534 NULL dereference and crash.
535
94eaf700
PP
536JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
537
6f5a440a
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538PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
539 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
540 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
541
514ee161
SC
542SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
543
fd98a5c6
JH
544JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
545 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
546 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
547 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
548 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
549 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
550 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
551 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
552 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
553 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
554 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
555
035c7f1e
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556PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
557 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
558
ff284120
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559PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
560 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
561 Bugzilla 880.
562
26e72755
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563PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
564 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
565 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
566 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
567 an empty string is now equivalent.
568
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569PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
570 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
571 not performing validation itself.
572
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573PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
574 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
575
fcc8e047
JH
576JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
577 Bugzilla 321, 823.
578
7142daca
PP
579TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
580
8c020188
PP
581PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
582 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
583 other false fix of the same issue.
584 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
585 Bugzilla 1363.
586
d13cdd30
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587PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
588 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
589
e2fbf4a2
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590PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
591 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
592 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
593
f4c1088b
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594PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
595 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
596 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
597
c5c2182f
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598TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
599
73431ca9
JH
600JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
601
2d07a215
TL
602TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
603 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
604
a30a8861
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605TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
606 Alexander Miroch.
607
33382dd9
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608TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
609 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
610 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
611 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
612 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 613
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614TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
615 the src/util/ subdirectory.
616
581d7bee 617TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 618 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
619 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
620
621TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
622 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
623 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
624 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
625
237b2cf2
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626TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
627
9fc5a352
TL
628TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
629 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
630 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 631
b10e4ec2
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632TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
633
e2cebd74
TL
634TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
635 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
636 interaction.
637
638TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
639 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
640
2519e60d
TL
641TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
642 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
643
e78e6ecf 644
4263f395
PP
645Exim version 4.80.1
646-------------------
647
648PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
649 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 650 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 651
ea722490 652
b1770b6e 653Exim version 4.80
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654-----------------
655
656PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
657 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
658 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
659
23c7e742
NM
660NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
661
b322aac8
NM
662NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
663 improved.
664
4a891427
NM
665NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
666
c1e794ba 667PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 668
97753960
PP
669PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
670
671PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
672 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
673
df6303fa
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674PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
675 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
676
7e6a8985
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677PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
678 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
679
f1e05cc7 680PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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681 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
682 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 683
4c287009
PP
684PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
685
b98bb9ac
PP
686PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
687 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
688
4a6a987a
PP
689PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
690
c45dd180 691PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 692
7db8d074
PP
693PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
694 non-compliant senders.
695 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
696
eae0036b 697NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
698 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
699 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
700
dec5017e
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701PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
702 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
703 in spool file corruption.
704
c80c5570
PP
705PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
706 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
707 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
708 "Got SSL error 2".
709
076b11e2
PP
710TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
711 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
712 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
713
5407bfff
JH
714JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
715 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
716
9e45c72b
PP
717JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
718
e74376d8
PP
719PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
720 diagnostics.
721 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
722
da3ad30d
PP
723PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
724 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
725 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
726
7be682ca
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727PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
728 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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729 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
730 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 731
ef840681
PP
732PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
733 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
734
5bfb4cdf
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735PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
736 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
737 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
738 resolver implementation change.
739
c6e95d22
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740PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
741 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
742
9cbad13b
PP
743PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
744
9ee44efb
PP
745PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
746
6a6084f8
PP
747PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
748 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
749
12dd53c7
PP
750PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
751 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
752
9e45c72b 753JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
754 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
755
17c76198
PP
756PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
757 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
758 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
759 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 760 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 761
53947857 762PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 763
eae0036b 764PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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PP
765 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
766 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 767
9e45c72b 768JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 769
7390e768
PP
770PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
771 read-only, out of scope).
772 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
773
08488c86
PP
774PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
775 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
776 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
777 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
778
6475bd82
PP
779PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
780
81f91683
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781PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
782 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
783 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
784 real issues in debug logging.
785
5779e6aa
PP
786PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
787 assignment on my part. Fixed.
788
3375e053
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789PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
790 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
791 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
792
793PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
794 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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795 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
796 problems.
3375e053 797
9d26b8c0
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798PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
799 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
800
57eb9e91 801PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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802 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
803 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
804 needs to override this, it can.
805
16880d1a
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806PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
807 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
808 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
809
a799883d
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810PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
811 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
812 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
813 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
814
3ecab157 815PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 816
0599f9cf 817
867fcbf5
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818Exim version 4.77
819-----------------
820
821PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
822 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
823
f1a29782
TF
824TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
825
ab42bd23
TK
826TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
827 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 828
0ca0cf52
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829TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
830 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
831
921b12ca
TF
832TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
833 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
834 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
835
836 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
837 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
838 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
839 not safe for signals.
840
841 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
842 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
843 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
844 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
845 exiwhat.
846
c99ce5c9
TF
847TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
848
849 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
850 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
851 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
852 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
853 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
854
855 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
856 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
857 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
858 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
859 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
860 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
861
862 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
863 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
864 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
865 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
866
867 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
868 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
869 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
870 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
871
872 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
873 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
874 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
875 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
876 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
877 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
878 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
879 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
880 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
881
882 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
883 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
884 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
885 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
886
887 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
888 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
889 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
890 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
891 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
892 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
893 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
894 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
895 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
896 details in the main documentation.
897
3634fc25
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898TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
899
792e8a19
TF
900TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
901
5901f0ab
TF
902TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
903 repository when doing development or release builds.
904
7f2a2a43
PP
905PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
906 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 907
061b7ebd
PP
908PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
909 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
910 Bugzilla 97.
911
e12f8c32
PP
912PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
913
9e949f00 914PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
915 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
916
917PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
918 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 919
555ae6af 920PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
921 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
922
923PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
924 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 925
6f7fe114
PP
926PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
927 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
928
c566dd90
PP
929PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
930 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
931 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
932 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 933
d6cc7c78 934PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
935 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
936 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
937
0d0e4455
PP
938PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
939
3399bb60 940PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
941
942PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
943 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
944
0ca0cf52 945
10906672
PP
946Exim version 4.76
947-----------------
948
949PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
950
754a0503
PP
951PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
952 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
953
c0c7b2da
PP
954PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
955
e97d1f08
PP
956PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
957
084c1d8c
PP
958PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
959 Bugzilla 1098.
960
4e7ee012
PP
961PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
962 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 963
c8d52a00
PP
964TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
965 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
966
54e7ce4a
PP
967PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
968 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
969
5ee6f336
PP
970PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
971 Bugzilla 1104.
972
c8d52a00 973TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
974 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
975
976TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
977 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
978 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
979 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
980
981PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
982 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 983
10906672 984
aa097c4c
NM
985Exim version 4.75
986-----------------
987
4c9ef03a 988NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
989 Bugzilla 1073
990
7f3d9eff
TF
991TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
992 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
993 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
994
159f52d2
TF
995TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
996 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
997
0cc9542a
PP
998PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
999 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1000 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1001
f7274286
PP
1002PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1003 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1004
7b797365
PP
1005PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1006 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1007
caacae52
NM
1008NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1009 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1010
09dcaba9
NM
1011NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1012 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1013
bc19a55b
PP
1014PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1015 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1016
bd4c9759
NM
1017NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1018 Fixes bug 943.
1019
b72aab72
PP
1020PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1021 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1022
2fe76745
PP
1023PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1024 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1025
76aa570c
PP
1026PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1027 SQL string expansion failure details.
1028 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1029
f1e5fef5
PP
1030PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1031 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1032
4d805ee9
PP
1033PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1034 extern declarations in function scope.
1035 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1036
cd59ab18
PP
1037PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1038 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1039 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1040 a kernel bug).
1041
332f5cf3
PP
1042PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1043 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1044
29cfeb94
PP
1045PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1046 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1047
660242ad
PP
1048PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1049 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1050
bc4bc4c5
PP
1051PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1052 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1053
2e64baa9
NM
1054NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1055 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1056 Dennis Davis.
1057
bddd7526
PP
1058PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1059
6bac1a9a
PP
1060PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1061
552193f0
NM
1062NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1063 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1064
1b587e48
TF
1065TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1066 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1067
aa097c4c 1068
8c07b69f
TF
1069Exim version 4.74
1070-----------------
1071
1072TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1073 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1074
c0ea85ab
TF
1075TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1076 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1077
0761d44e
TF
1078TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1079
0a349494
PP
1080DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1081 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1082 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1083
1084PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1085 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1086 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1087
fea24b2e
PP
1088PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1089 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1090 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1091 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1092
6545de78
PP
1093PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1094 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1095 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1096 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1097
1670ef10
PP
1098PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1099 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1100 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1101 arbitrary files.
1102
c0886197
PP
1103PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1104 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1105
b7487bce
PP
1106PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1107 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1108 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1109 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1110 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1111
8c07b69f 1112
97fd1e48 1113Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1114-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1115
1116PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1117 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1118 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1119
6901c596
PP
1120PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1121 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1122
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1123JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1124
77bb000f
PP
1125PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1126
a29e5231
PP
1127PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1128
ec5a0394 1129PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1130
55c75993
PP
1131PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1132
453a6645 1133PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1134 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1135 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1136 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1137
8544e77a
PP
1138PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1139 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1140 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1141 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1142 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1143
83e029d5
PP
1144PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1145
ed7f7860
PP
1146PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1147
7d9f747b
PP
1148PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1149
4b2241d2
PP
1150PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1151
10385c15
PP
1152PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1153
dbc4b90d
PP
1154PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1155
532be449
PP
1156PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1157
6a8de854 1158PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1159 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1160 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1161
5dc43717
JJ
1162JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1163
1164JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1165 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1166
3346ab01
PP
1167PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1168 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1169
491fab4c
PP
1170PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1171 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1172 Notification from John Horne.
1173
13eb9497
PP
1174PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1175 compatible.
1176
1177PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1178 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1179 it normally works.
1180
7f36d675
DW
1181DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1182 access.
1183
c1d94452
DW
1184DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1185 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1186 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1187
e2f5dc15
DW
1188DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1189 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1190 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1191 configuration file.
1192
cd25e41d
DW
1193DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1194 option (effectively making it always true).
1195
261dc43e
DW
1196DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1197 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1198
fa32850b
DW
1199DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1200 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1201
79d4bc3d
PP
1202PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1203 run-time user, instead of root.
1204
43236f35 1205PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1206 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1207
fb08281f
DW
1208DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1209 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1210 arguments.
3346ab01 1211
74935b98
DW
1212DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1213 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1214 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1215
90b6341f
DW
1216DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1217
57730b52
ML
1218NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1219
66581d1e 1220
465e92cf
JJ
1221Exim version 4.72
1222-----------------
1223
453a6645
PP
1224JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1225 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1226 typos
465e92cf 1227
453a6645
PP
1228JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1229 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1230 (Finput)
edae0343 1231
9bd3e22c
NM
1232NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1233 Patch from Alain Williams
1234
bb576ff7
NM
1235NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1236
5a1a5845
NM
1237NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1238 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1239
981a9fad
NM
1240NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1241 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1242
7fc497ee
NM
1243NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1244
1a41defa
JJ
1245JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1246
a466095c 1247NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1248 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1249
94a6bd0b
NM
1250TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1251
1252TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1253
1254MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1255 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1256 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1257
c1b141a8
NM
1258NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1259 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1260
b26eacf1 1261NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1262 Patch by Simon Arlott
1263
179c5980 1264PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1265 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1266
9bd3e22c 1267
7c6d71af
NM
1268Exim version 4.71
1269-----------------
1270
7d9f747b 1271TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1272
f013fb92
NM
1273NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1274
0eb8eedd
NM
1275NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1276
663ee6d9
NM
1277NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1278
177ebd9b
NM
1279NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1280
7c6d71af 1281
210f147e
NM
1282Exim version 4.70
1283-----------------
1284
cdd3bb85 1285TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1286 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1287
1288TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1289 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1290 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1291
1292TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1293 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1294 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1295
1296TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1297 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1298
210f147e
NM
1299NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1300 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1301 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1302 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1303
deafd5b3
NM
1304NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1305 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1306 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1307
089793a4
TF
1308TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1309
5f16ca82
TF
1310TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1311
dae9d94e 1312NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1313 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1314
7d9f747b 1315NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1316
06864c44
TF
1317TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1318 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1319 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1320 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1321
65a7d8c3 1322NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1323 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1324
23510047 1325TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1326
7d9f747b 1327NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1328
7d8eec3a 1329NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1330 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1331
89dec7b6
TF
1332TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1333 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1334
a99de90c
TF
1335TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1336 that they are available at delivery time.
1337
e2803e40
TF
1338TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1339
7199e1ee
TF
1340TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1341 incoming_port log selectors.
1342
e276e04b
TF
1343TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1344 setting expands to an empty string.
1345
ce552449 1346NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1347 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1348
e765a0f1 1349NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1350 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1351
4f054c63 1352NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1353 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1354
7d9f747b
PP
1355NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1356 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1357
7d9f747b
PP
1358NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1359 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1360
b52bc06e 1361NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1362 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1363
447de4b0
NM
1364NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1365
4c69d561 1366NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1367 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1368
d5c39246 1369NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1370 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1371
0b23848a
TK
1372TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1373
8f3414a1 1374NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1375 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1376
fb6f955d
NM
1377NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1378
1379NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1380
7d9f747b
PP
1381NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1382 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1383
7d9f747b
PP
1384NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1385 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1386
7d9f747b
PP
1387NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1388 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1389
7d9f747b
PP
1390NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1391 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1392
7d9f747b
PP
1393NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1394 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1395
7d9f747b
PP
1396NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1397 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1398
7d9f747b
PP
1399NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1400 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1401
7d9f747b 1402NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1403 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1404
7d9f747b 1405NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1406
7d9f747b
PP
1407NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1408 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1409
7d9f747b 1410NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1411
7d9f747b 1412NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1413
7d9f747b 1414NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1415
7d9f747b 1416NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1417
17792b53 1418NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1419 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1420
7d9f747b
PP
1421NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1422 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1423
91576cec 1424NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1425 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1426
7d9f747b
PP
1427NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1428 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1429
7d9f747b 1430NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1431
7d9f747b 1432NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1433
7d9f747b 1434NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1435
7d9f747b 1436NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1437
deafd5b3 1438
47db1125
NM
1439Exim version 4.69
1440-----------------
1441
4b3504d0
TK
1442TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1443 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1444 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1445
1446 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1447 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1448 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1449 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1450 build errors in sieve.c.
1451
81ea09ca
NM
1452NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1453 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1454 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1455
f13cddcb
SC
1456SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1457
7d9f747b 1458NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1459
7d9f747b 1460NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1461
7d9f747b 1462NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1463
1464
eb4c0de6
PH
1465Exim version 4.68
1466-----------------
1467
1468PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1469
6a3bceb1
PH
1470PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1471 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1472 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1473 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1474 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1475 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1476 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1477 for iplsearch lookups.
1478
1479 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1480 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1481 previously such lookups could never work.
1482
1483 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1484 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1485 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1486
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TK
1487TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1488 version.
1489
0806a9c5
MH
1490MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1491 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1492 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1493 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1494 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1495 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1496
ae276964
TK
1497TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1498 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1499
0f2cbd1b
MH
1500MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1501 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1502 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1503 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1504 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1505 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1506
2b85bce7
PH
1507PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1508 local_scan API.
1509
93655c46
PH
1510PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1511
6c512171
PH
1512PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1513 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1514 encrypted.
1515
1516PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1517 by clients under certain conditions.
1518
aa6dc513
PH
1519PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1520 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1521
a96603a0
PH
1522PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1523
8f240103
PH
1524PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1525 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1526
1527PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1528
d677b2f2
PH
1529PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1530
d52120f2
PH
1531PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1532
64f2600a
PH
1533PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1534 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1535
8669f003
PH
1536PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1537
a4dc33a8
PH
1538PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1539 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1540
d6a60c0f
PH
1541PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1542
8f128379
PH
1543PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1544
8932dffe
PH
1545PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1546 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1547 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1548 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1549
ddea74fa 1550PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1551 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1552 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1553
ddea74fa 1554PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1555 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1556
ddea74fa
PH
1557PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1558
ce9f225c
PH
1559PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1560
19897d52
PH
1561PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1562
bc64a74d
PH
1563PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1564 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1565 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1566
eb4c0de6 1567
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PH
1568Exim version 4.67
1569-----------------
1570
22ad45c9
MH
1571MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1572 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1573 Jan Srzednicki.
1574
b4ed4da0
PH
1575PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1576 issue a MAIL command.
1577
431b7361
PH
1578PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1579
1580 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1581
1582 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1583 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1584 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1585 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1586 item. This has been fixed.
1587
1588PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1589 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1590
83da1223
PH
1591PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1592 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1593
54fc8428
PH
1594PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1595 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1596 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1597
34c5e8dd
SC
1598SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1599
bbe15da8
PH
1600PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1601 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1602 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1603 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1604 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1605
0e8a9471
MH
1606MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1607 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1608 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1609
f0872424
PH
1610PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1611 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1612 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1613 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1614
b01dd148
PH
1615PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1616
6bf342e1
PH
1617PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1618
273f34d0
PH
1619PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1620 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1621 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1622 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1623 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1624
cf8b11a5
PH
1625PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1626
41c7c167
PH
1627PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1628 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1629 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1630 values).
1631
9c57cbc0
PH
1632PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1633
f3f065bb
PH
1634PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1635
047bdd8c
PH
1636PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1637
0ce9abe6
PH
1638PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1639
0e22dfd1
PH
1640PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1641
4c590bd1
PH
1642PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1643 no_callout_flush is set.
1644
09945f1e
PH
1645PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1646 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1647 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1648 fixed.
1649
c51b8e75
PH
1650PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1651
e28326d8
PH
1652PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1653 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1654 other ACL rejections are.
1655
75b1493f
PH
1656PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1657 with slight modification.
1658
7c5214ec
PH
1659PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1660 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1661
4311097e
PH
1662PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1663 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1664 connection.
1665
29f89cad
PH
1666PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1667 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1668
5e687460
SC
1669SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1670
c3611384
PH
1671PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1672 expansion side effects.
1673
5a11a7b4
PH
1674PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1675 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1676 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1677 be the same.
1678
0e20aff9
MH
1679MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1680 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1681 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1682
ca86f471
PH
1683PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1684 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1685 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1686 were accidentally chopped off.
1687
a14e5636
PH
1688PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1689 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1690 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1691 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1692 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1693 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1694 pipelining has not been advertised.
1695
ec95d1a6
PH
1696PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1697
42855d71
PH
1698PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1699 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1700 This has been fixed.
1701
57c2c631
PH
1702PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1703 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1704 reported on Solaris.
1705
58c01c94
PH
1706PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1707 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1708 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1709 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1710 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1711 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1712 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1713
dee5a20a
PH
1714PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1715 cpus.
1716
d2ee6114
PH
1717PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1718
b2d5182b
PH
1719PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1720
79749a79
PH
1721PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1722 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1723 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1724 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1725 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1726 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1727
c456d9bb
PH
1728PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1729 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1730 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1731 host_all_ignored option.
1732
cd9868ec
PH
1733PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1734 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1735 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1736 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1737 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1738 is what is supposed to happen).
1739
ebeaf996
PH
1740PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1741 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1742 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1743 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1744 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1745 uses the Exim user.
1746
2679d413
PH
1747PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1748 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1749 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1750 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1751 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1752 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1753 users.
1754
84024b72
PH
1755PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1756
8005d38e
SC
1757SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1758 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1759 (Jez Hancock).
1760 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1761 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1762
3298c6c6
SC
1763SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1764
a43a27c5
PH
1765PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1766
58eb016e 1767PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1768 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1769 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1770 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1771 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1772 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1773 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1774 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1775 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1776 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1777 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1778
b43a74ea
PH
1779PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1780 advertised in response to EHLO.
1781
b4ed4da0 1782
5dd1517f
PH
1783Exim version 4.66
1784-----------------
1785
1786PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1787 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1788
1789 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1790 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1791
1792 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1793 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1794 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1795
1796 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1797 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1798 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1799 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1800 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1801
1802
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1803Exim version 4.65
1804-----------------
1805
1806TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1807 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1808 versions. (#438)
1809
d6066548
MH
1810MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1811 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1812 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1813
4362ff0d
PH
1814PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1815 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1816 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1817 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1818 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1819 rather than extend the field.
1820
93cfa765 1821
944e9e9c
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1822Exim version 4.64
1823-----------------
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1825TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1826 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1827 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1828 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1829 these files.
1830
1831TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1832 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1833 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1834
1835TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1836 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1837 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1838
1839TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1840 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1841 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1842 in the field name.
1843
2b1c6e3a
PH
1844PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1845 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1846 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1847 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1848 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1849 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1850 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1851 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1852 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1853 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1854 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1855
1f872c80
PH
1856PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1857 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1858
1859PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1860 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1861 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1862 ignores EPIPE as well.
1863
d203e649
PH
1864PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1865 (quoted-printable decoding).
1866
cc2ed8f7 1867PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1868 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1869
ddfcd446
PH
1870PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1871
d45b1de8
PH
1872PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1873
1874PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1875
38a0a95f 1876PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1877 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1878
a2405d83
JJ
1879JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1880 in 4.64-PH/09.
1881
1882JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1883 miscellaneous code fixes
1884
6ea85e9a
PH
1885PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1886 rejections.
1887
26da7e20
PH
1888PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1889 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1890 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1891 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1892 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1893 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1894 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1895 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1896
14aa5a05 1897PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1898 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1899 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1900 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1901 function.
1902 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1903 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1904 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1905 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1906 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1907 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1908 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1909 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1910 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1911
ff75a1f7
PH
1912PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1913 decoding.
1914
e6f6568e
PH
1915PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1916 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1917 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1918 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1919 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1920 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1921 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1922 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1923
d6f6e0dc
PH
1924PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1925 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1926 list.
1927
322050c2
PH
1928PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1929 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1930 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1931 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1932 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1933 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1934 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1935 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1936 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1937 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1938 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1939 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1940 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1941
08955dd3
PH
1942PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1943 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1944 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1945 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1946 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1947 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1948 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1949
1eccaa59
PH
1950PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1951 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1952 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1953 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1954 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1955 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1956 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1957 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1958 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1959 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1960
602e59e5
PH
1961PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1962 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1963 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1964 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1965 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1966
411ef850
PH
1967PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1968 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1969 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1970 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1971 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1972 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1973 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1974
7befa435
PH
1975PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1976 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1977 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1978 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1979 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1980 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1981 been verified.
1982
48da4259 1983PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1984 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1985 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1986 and authorization.)
1987
48da4259
PH
1988PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1989 if any retry times were supplied.
1990
d1d5595c
PH
1991PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1992 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1993 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1994
0ef732d9
PH
1995PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1996
328895cc
PH
1997PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1998
fd700877
PH
1999PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2000 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2001 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2002 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2003 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2004 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2005
8dce1a6f
PH
2006PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2007 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2008
17af4a17
PH
2009PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2010 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2011 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2012
2013PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2014 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2015 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2016 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2017 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2018 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2019 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2020 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2021 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2022
2023 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2024 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2025 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2026 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2027 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2028 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2029 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2030 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2031 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2032
2033 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2034 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2035 hammering the server.
2036
c1114884
PH
2037PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2038 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2039
7a0743eb
PH
2040PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2041
0d85fa3f
PH
2042PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2043 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2044 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2045
1bf43b78
PH
2046PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2047 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2048 one case where this was not true.
2049
520de300
PH
2050PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2051 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2052 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2053 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2054 fails.
2055
48c7f9e2
PH
2056PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2057 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2058 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2059 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2060 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2061 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2062 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2063 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2064 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2065 smtp transport.
2066
99ea1c86
PH
2067PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2068 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2069 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2070 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2071
a2042e78
PH
2072PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2073 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2074
4fbcfc2e
PH
2075PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2076 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2077 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2078
aa41d2de
PH
2079PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2080
af561417
PH
2081PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2082
3cc66b45
PH
2083PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2084
194cc0e4
PH
2085PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2086 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2087 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2088 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2089
a401ddaa
PH
2090PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2091 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2092
4e88a19f
PH
2093PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2094 be meaningful with "accept".
2095
d7d7b289
SC
2096SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2097 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2098
2099SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2100 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2101 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2102
2103SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2104 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2105 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2106 there is data to show.
2107 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2108
2109SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2110 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2111 as well as the number of messages.
2112
2113SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2114 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2115 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2116
2117SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2118 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2119 have a flag are now skipped.
2120
2121SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2122 Added the -emptyok flag.
2123
2124SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2125 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2126
0ea2a468
JJ
2127JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2128 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2129 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2130
2131JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2132 match 4.64-PH/13
2133
2134JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2135 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2136
2137JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2138
2139JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2140 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2141
8a10f5a4
PH
2142PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2143
30e18802
PH
2144PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2145 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2146 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2147 contravention of the specifications.
2148
55728a4f
PH
2149PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2150 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2151 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2152
d7837193
PH
2153PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2154 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2155 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2156
87054a31
PH
2157PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2158
ea2c01d2
MH
2159MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2160 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2161 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2162 some point in the past.
2163
e4fa6968
PH
2164PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2165 transport during callout processing was broken.
2166
56f5d9bd
PH
2167PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2168 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2169
922e1c28
PH
2170PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2171 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2172
21eb6e72
PH
2173PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2174 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2175
a0540757
PH
2176PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2177
944e9e9c 2178
478be7b0
SC
2179Exim version 4.63
2180-----------------
2181
2182SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2183 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2184
2185SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2186 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2187 there is data to show.
2188 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2189
2190SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2191 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2192
2b965a65
TF
2193TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2194 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2195
45b91596
PH
2196TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2197 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2198
c59f5781
TF
2199TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2200 submissions from trusted users.
2201
90fc3069
TF
2202TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2203 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2204
6083aca0
TF
2205TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2206 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2207 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2208 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2209 there is now a framework to start from.
2210
765b530f
PH
2211PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2212 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2213 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2214
4e167a8c
PH
2215PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2216
4608d683
PH
2217PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2218
b8dc3e4a
PH
2219PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2220
5418e93b
PH
2221PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2222 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2223 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2224
b4a9bda2
PH
2225PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2226 libradius.
2227
45b91596
PH
2228PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2229 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2230 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2231
5547e2c5
PH
2232PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2233 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2234 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2235 its arguments.
2236
dbcef0ea
PH
2237PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2238 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2239 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2240 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2241 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2242
25257489
PH
2243PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2244 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2245
c816d124
PH
2246PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2247
a9ccd69a
PH
2248PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2249 operations in malware.c.
2250
75fa1910
PH
2251PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2252 signatures.
2253
a7d7aa58
PH
2254PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2255 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2256 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2257 all.
2258
42119b09
PH
2259PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2260 statements to "add_header".
2261
41609df5
PH
2262PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2263 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2264
a5bd321b
PH
2265PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2266 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2267 latter.
2268
e85a7ad5 2269PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2270 so that it is now:
2271
e85a7ad5
PH
2272 ${if or { \
2273 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2274 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2275 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2276 }{no}{yes}}
2277
e85a7ad5
PH
2278 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2279 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2280
d8fe1c03
PH
2281PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2282 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2283
16282d2b
PH
2284PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2285 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2286 any possible encoding problems.
2287
35d40a98
PH
2288PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2289 but not after initializing Perl.
2290
034d99ab
PH
2291PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2292 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2293 apparently, which is not desirable.
2294
6ec97b1b
PH
2295PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2296 queries.
2297
e22ca4ac
JJ
2298JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2299 --not options
2300
2301JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2302
33d73e3b
PH
2303PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2304 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2305 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2306 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2307
9ecb03f3
PH
2308PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2309 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2310 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2311
084efe8d
PH
2312PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2313 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2314 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2315 0.12.
2316
366fc9f0
PH
2317PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2318 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2319 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2320 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2321 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2322
c59f5781 2323
c887c79e
TF
2324Exim version 4.62
2325-----------------
2326
2327TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2328 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2329
1cce3af8
PH
2330PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2331 patch).
2332
afb3eaaf
PH
2333PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2334 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2335 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2336 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2337 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2338 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2339 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2340 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2341 451 error is used.
2342
e173618b
PH
2343PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2344
dd16e114
PH
2345PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2346 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2347 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2348
f7fd3850
PH
2349PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2350 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2351 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2352 odd errors.
2353
d87df92c
PH
2354PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2355 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2356
7e9f683d
PH
2357PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2358 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2359 option (which defaults to 0600).
2360
bfad5236
PH
2361PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2362
01c490df
PH
2363PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2364 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2365 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2366 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2367 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2368 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2369 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2370
d6629cdc
PH
2371PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2372
1cce3af8 2373
214e2000
PH
2374Exim version 4.61
2375-----------------
2376
2377PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2378 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2379 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2380 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2381 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2382 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2383 addresses as local.
2384
f9daeae0
PH
2385PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2386 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2387
7e66e54d
PH
2388PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2389
c8ea1597
PH
2390PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2391 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2392 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2393 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2394 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2395 grumble.
2396
911f6fde
PH
2397PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2398 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2399
47ca6d6c
PH
2400PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2401 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2402 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2403 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2404 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2405
ed0e9820
PH
2406PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2407 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2408 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2409 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2410
eff37e47
PH
2411PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2412 be the same on different OS.
2413
1921d2ea
PH
2414PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2415 testing.
2416
b3f69ca8
JJ
2417JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2418 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2419
2420JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2421 in 4.61-PH/06
2422
424a1c63
PH
2423PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2424 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2425 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2426 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2427 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2428 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2429 bounce message.
2430
7a100415
PH
2431PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2432 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2433 when Exim was called.
2434
19b9dc85
PH
2435PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2436 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2437
309bd837
PH
2438PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2439 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2440 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2441 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2442
59e82a2a
PH
2443PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2444 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2445 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2446 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2447 changes:
2448
2449 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2450 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2451 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2452
2453 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2454 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2455 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2456
9edc04ce
PH
2457PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2458 feature).
2459
1349e1e5
PH
2460PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2461 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2462 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2463 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2464 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2465 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2466 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2467 values from the SRV records were lost.
2468
ea49d0e1
PH
2469PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2470 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2471 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2472
064a94c9
PH
2473PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2474 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2475 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2476
727071f8
PH
2477PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2478 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2479 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2480 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2481 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2482 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2483 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2484 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2485 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2486 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2487
f78eb7c6
PH
2488PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2489 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2490 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2491
21c28500
PH
2492PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2493 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2494
2495PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2496 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2497 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2498 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2499 is given.
2500
1688f43b
PH
2501PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2502 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2503 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2504
2505PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2506 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2507 PH/23 above applies.
2508
9675b384
PH
2509PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2510 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2511 (for which there is an explicit test).
2512
6a3f1455
PH
2513PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2514
dac79d3e
PH
2515PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2516 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2517 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2518 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2519 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2520
5977a0b3
PH
2521PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2522 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2523 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2524 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2525
c91535f3
PH
2526PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2527 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2528 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2529
0d46a8c8
PH
2530PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2531
278c6e6c
PH
2532PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2533
2cbb4081
PH
2534PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2535 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2536 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2537
3eef829e
PH
2538PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2539 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2540 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2541 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2542 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2543
1ab95fa6
PH
2544PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2545 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2546 the message gets confusing).
2547
230205fc
PH
2548PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2549 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2550 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2551 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2552
75e0e026
PH
2553PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2554 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2555 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2556 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2557 same order.
2558
2559PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2560 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2561 the different processes.
2562
145396a6
PH
2563PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2564
3cd34f13
PH
2565PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2566
11121d3d
JJ
2567JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2568 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2569
2570JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2571 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2572
2573JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2574 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2575 messages matching specified criteria.
2576
8def5aaf
PH
2577PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2578
929ba01c
PH
2579PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2580 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2581
2632889e
PH
2582PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2583 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2584 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2585 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2586 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2587 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2588 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2589 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2590 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2591 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2592
944a9c55
PH
2593PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2594 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2595 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2596
4a23603b
PH
2597PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2598
4730f942
PH
2599PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2600 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2601 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2602 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2603 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2604 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2605 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2606 the variable.
2607
30dba1e6
PH
2608PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2609 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2610
382afc6b
PH
2611PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2612
a86229cf
PH
2613PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2614
50c99ba6
PH
2615PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2616
d35e429d
PH
2617PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2618 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2619 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2620 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2621 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2622 size of the count of files.
2623
f90d018c
PH
2624PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2625
75def545
PH
2626PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2627 used in LMTP mode:
2628
2629 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2630 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2631 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2632 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2633
2634 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2635 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2636 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2637
2638PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2639 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2640 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2641 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2642 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2643
c46782ef
PH
2644PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2645 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2646
71fafd95
PH
2647PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2648 will now be deprecated.
2649
2c5db4fd
PH
2650PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2651
9cf6b11a
JJ
2652JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2653 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2654 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2655
2656JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2657 with very large, slow to parse queues
2658
2659JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2660
2661JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2662
898d150f
PH
2663PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2664 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2665 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2666 SMTP output lines.
2667
46218253
PH
2668PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2669 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2670 Sieve code now uses this.
2671
e97957bc
PH
2672PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2673 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2674
81e509d7
PH
2675PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2676 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2677
3d240ff7
PH
2678PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2679
b37c4101
PH
2680PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2681 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2682 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2683 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2684 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2685
79378e0f
PH
2686PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2687 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2688 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2689 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2690
e49c7bb4
PH
2691PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2692
d114ec46
PH
2693PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2694
f3d7df6c
PH
2695PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2696 is preferred over IPv4.
2697
715ab376
PH
2698PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2699 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2700 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2701 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2702 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2703 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2704 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2705
6b31b150
PH
2706PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2707 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2708 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2709
2710PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2711
d515a917
PH
2712PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2713 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2714 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2715 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2716 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2717 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2718 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2719 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2720 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2721 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2722 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2723
9b8fadde
PH
2724PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2725 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2726 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2727
214e2000 2728
5de37277
PH
2729Exim version 4.60
2730-----------------
2731
cc38ddbf
PH
2732PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2733
2734 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2735 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2736
2737 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2738 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2739 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2740
72fdd6ae
PH
2741PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2742
2743 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2744 not a single digit.
2745
2746 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2747 string.
2748
2749 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2750 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2751 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2752 silly things.
2753
2754 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2755 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2756
2757 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2758 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2759
cb741023
PH
2760PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2761 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2762 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2763
f174f16e
PH
2764PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2765 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2766
c25242d7
PH
2767PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2768 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2769
2770 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2771
2772 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2773 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2774 this:
2775
2776 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2777
82c19f95
PH
2778PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2779 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2780 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2781 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2782 identical. For example:
2783
2784 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2785
2786 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2787 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2788 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2789
d7ffbc12
PH
2790PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2791 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2792 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2793 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2794
9f526266
PH
2795PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2796 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2797 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2798 message.
2799
87fcc8b9
PH
2800PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2801
2802 o fixes some comments
2803 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2804 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2805 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2806 and documents the missing references header update
2807
2808 and most important:
2809
2810 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2811 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2812 result)
2813
456682f5
PH
2814PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2815 Electronic Mail") by including:
2816
2817 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2818
2819 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2820 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2821 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2822 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2823 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2824
2825 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2826
2827 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2828
2829 The auto-replied keyword:
2830
2831 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2832 message by an automatic process,
2833
2834 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2835
2836 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2837 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2838
2839 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2840 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2841 other messages.
2842
3e46c1aa
PH
2843PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2844 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2845
49826d12
PH
2846PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2847
eba0c039
PH
2848PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2849 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2850 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2851
a0d6ba8a
PH
2852PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2853 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2854 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2855
f0917727
PH
2856PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2857 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2858 and treats the condition as false.
2859
096fee00
PH
2860PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2861
024bd3c2
PH
2862PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2863 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2864 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2865 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2866 not changing the active code.
2867
2868 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2869 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2870
2871 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2872 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2873
df199fec
PH
2874PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2875 (Bugzilla #53).
2876
d27f1df3
PH
2877PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2878 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2879 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2880 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2881 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2882 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2883 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2884 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2885 the text comparison.
2886
96776534
PH
2887PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2888 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2889 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2890 The same fix has been applied.
2891
5de37277 2892
9a799bc0
PH
2893Exim version 4.54
2894-----------------
2895
2896PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2897 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2898 It now does.
2899
99a4b039
PH
2900PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2901 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2902
2903PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2904
4b233853
PH
2905PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2906 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2907 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2908 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2909 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2910
8857ccfd
PH
2911TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2912 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2913 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2914 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2915 or /domain=).
2916
433a2980
PH
2917PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2918 testing suite.
2919
3e46c1aa 2920
9a799bc0 2921
e3a311ba
TK
2922Exim version 4.53
2923-----------------
2924
2925TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2926 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2927
13b685f9
PH
2928PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2929
395ff96d
PH
2930PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2931
5b68f6e4
PH
2932PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2933 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2934 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2935
1ab52c69
PH
2936PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2937 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2938 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2939
b07e6aa3
PH
2940PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2941 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2942 operating systems.
2943
254e032f
PH
2944PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2945 ${stat: expansion item.
2946
3af76a81
PH
2947PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2948 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2949
2548ba04
PH
2950PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2951 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2952 file for comments.
2953
b6c6011d
PH
2954PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2955
cf39cf57
PH
2956PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2957 setting.
2958
f1513293
PH
2959PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2960 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2961
727549a4
PH
2962TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2963
af46795e
PH
2964PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2965 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2966 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2967 the end of the subprocess.
2968
d7b47fd0
PH
2969PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2970 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2971 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2972 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2973 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2974
ee744174
JJ
2975JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2976
b582ab87
PH
2977TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2978
41a13e0a
PH
2979PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2980 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2981
f625cc5a
PH
2982PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2983
2984PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2985
21f7af35
PH
2986PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2987 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2988 HP-UX compiler.
2989
31480e42
PH
2990PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2991
2d280592
PH
2992PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2993 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2994 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2995
7cd1141b
PH
2996PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2997 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2998
2999PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3000 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3001
750af86e
PH
3002PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3003 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3004
3005 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3006 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3007
3008 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3009 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3010 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3011 contributed by a Radius user.
3012
3013PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3014 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3015
4304270b
TK
3016TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3017 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3018
750af86e
PH
3019PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3020 available.
3021
64ffc24f
PH
3022PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3023 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3024 received.
3025
5dd9625b
PH
3026PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3027 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3028 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3029 header lines when this was not necessary.
3030
5591031b
PH
3031PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3032
ba18e66a
PH
3033PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3034 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3035 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3036 exists".
3037
9cec981f
PH
3038PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3039 -bV or -d is used.
3040
aa2b5c79
PH
3041PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3042 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3043 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3044 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3045
48a53b7f
PH
3046PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3047
1c59d63b
PH
3048PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3049
671012da
TK
3050TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3051
1509d3a8
PH
3052PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3053
3054PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3055 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3056 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3057 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3058 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3059 settings.
3060
3061PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3062
2fe1a124
PH
3063PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3064 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3065 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3066 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3067 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3068 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3069 which is clearly wrong.
3070
8800895a
PH
3071PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3072
ccfdb010
PH
3073PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3074 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3075 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3076 subsequently added.
3077
1130bfb0
PH
3078PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3079 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3080
ebcb507f
PH
3081PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3082
c35e155c
PH
3083PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3084 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3085
95d1f782
PH
3086PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3087 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3088
fd6de02e
PH
3089PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3090 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3091
58de37c5
PH
3092PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3093 recipients, not senders.
3094
261cf466
TF
3095TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3096 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3097
3ee512ff
PH
3098PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3099
e08c430f
PH
3100PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3101
bef5a11f
PH
3102PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3103 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3104 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3105 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3106
7546de58
TF
3107TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3108
e5d5a95f
TF
3109TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3110 clock is set back in time.
3111
2e88a017
TF
3112TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3113 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3114
a5f65aa4
TF
3115TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3116 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3117
e7726cbf
PH
3118PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3119 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3120 (see PH/47 above).
3121
a7fdad5b
TF
3122TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3123 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3124 header rewrites.
3125
6af56900
PH
3126PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3127 type ("H").
3128
0925ede6
PH
3129PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3130
66afa403
TF
3131TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3132 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3133 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3134
0154e85a
TF
3135TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3136 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3137 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3138 helo verification defer as a failure.
3139
16f12c76
PH
3140PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3141 actual error message.
3142
bbe902f0 3143
e5a9dba6
PH
3144Exim version 4.52
3145-----------------
3146
3147TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3148
22c3b60b
PH
3149PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3150 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3151 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3152 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3153
06a9b4b5
PH
3154TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3155
c1ac6996
PH
3156PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3157 can still be requested.
3158
9c7a242c
PH
3159PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3160 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3161 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3162 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3163
87ba3f5f
PH
3164TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3165 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3166 circumstances, but probably never did.
3167
3168PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3169 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3170 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3171 in the header line.
3172
29aba418
TF
3173TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3174
fe0dab11
TF
3175TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3176 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3177
11d337a4
TK
3178TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3179
3180TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3181
415c8f3b
PH
3182PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3183 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3184 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3185 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3186 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3187 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3188
958541e9
PH
3189PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3190 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3191 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3192 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3193 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3194 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3195
c206415f
TK
3196TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3197 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3198
2a4be8f9
PH
3199PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3200 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3201
1cba11c5
SC
3202SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3203 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3204
3205SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3206
3207SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3208
3209SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3210
3211SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3212
3213SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3214
3215SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3216
1005d00e
TK
3217TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3218
3219TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3220 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3221 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3222
3223TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3224 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3225 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3226 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3227
9b4768fa
PH
3228PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3229 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3230 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3231
3232PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3233 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3234 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3235 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3236
0d7eb84a
PH
3237PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3238 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3239 to be made).
3240
3241PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3242 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3243 should work with maildirs and everything.
3244
40727bee
TK
3245TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3246 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3247
554d2369
TF
3248TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3249 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3250
1f922db1
PH
3251PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3252 function for BDB 4.3.
3253
ef213c3b
PH
3254PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3255
8ac170f3
PH
3256PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3257 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3258 involved.
3259
b1c749bb
PH
3260PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3261 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3262 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3263 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3264 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3265 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3266
4aac9b49
PH
3267PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3268 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3269 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3270 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3271 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3272 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3273 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3274 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3275
294520c8
TK
3276TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3277 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3278 details.
3279
5bd022fe
PH
3280PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3281 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3282
90e9ce59
PH
3283PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3284 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3285 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3286 test. It is now used for both.
3287
5ea81592
PH
3288PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3289 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3290 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3291 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3292 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3293 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3294
c6c2dc1d
PH
3295PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3296 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3297 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3298 string_vformat().
3299
fffffe4c
PH
3300PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3301 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3302 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3303
9a26b6b2
PH
3304PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3305 experimental DomainKeys support:
3306
3307 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3308 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3309 the control was given.
3310
3311 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3312
4aee0225
PH
3313PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3314
32d668a5
PH
3315PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3316
8187c3f3
PH
3317PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3318 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3319 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3320 db.h files).
3321
ff790e47 3322PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3323 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3324 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3325 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3326 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3327 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3328 course.
ff790e47 3329
5417f6d1
PH
3330PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3331 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3332 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3333 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3334 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3335 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3336
59cf8544
PH
3337PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3338 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3339 do -d+all out of habit.
3340
e7ad8a65
PH
3341PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3342 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3343 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3344
ade42478
PH
3345PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3346 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3347 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3348 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3349 record types that Exim uses.
3350
182ad5cf
PH
3351PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3352 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3353 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3354 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3355 non-existent file that was broken.
3356
b0d9fc80
TK
3357TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3358 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3359
3360TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3361 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3362 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3363
3364TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3365
47c7a64a
PH
3366PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3367 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3368 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3369 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3370 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3371 same time.
3372
a388bce4
SC
3373SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3374 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3375 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3376 at a slight CPU cost.
3377
3378SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3379 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3380
3381SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3382 by Marc Sherman.
3383
0793e4ed
SC
3384SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3385
c58b88df
PH
3386PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3387 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3388
e7ad8a65 3389
7982096b
PH
3390Exim version 4.51
3391-----------------
3392
1a46a8c5
PH
3393TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3394 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3395
2f079f46 3396TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3397
3398TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3399
3400PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3401 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3402
3403PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3404 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3405 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3406 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3407 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3408 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3409 file.
3410
3411PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3412 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3413 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3414 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3415 these two options.
3416
3417PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3418 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3419 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3420 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3421 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3422 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3423 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3424 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3425
3426PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3427 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3428
3429PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3430 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3431 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3432 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3433 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3434 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3435
3436PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3437 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3438 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3439 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3440
3441PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3442 Finch).
3443
3444PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3445 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3446
49c2d5ea
PH
3447PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3448 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3449 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3450 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3451 message.
49c2d5ea 3452
bf759a8b
PH
3453PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3454
83364d30
PH
3455PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3456 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3457
7999bbd7
PH
3458PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3459 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3460 to what was transported.)
3461
7dbf77c9
PH
3462TF/01 Added $received_time.
3463
74e0617f
PH
3464PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3465 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3466 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3467 spamd_address settings.
3468
2f079f46
PH
3469PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3470 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3471 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3472 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3473 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3474
8c841523
PH
3475PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3476
7766a4f0
PH
3477PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3478 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3479 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3480 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3481 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3482
8b417f2c
PH
3483PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3484 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3485
901f42cb
PH
3486PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3487 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3488 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3489 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3490 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3491 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3492 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3493 for failure.
3494
f9b9210e
PH
3495PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3496 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3497 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3498 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3499 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3500 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3501 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3502 "input=".
3503
54cdb463
PH
3504PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3505
cf00dad6
PH
3506PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3507 driver and ACL definitions.
3508
acb1b346
PH
3509PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3510 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3511
c5ddb310
PH
3512PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3513 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3514 understands it better than I do:
3515
3516 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3517 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3518
3519 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3520 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3521 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3522 => three warnings about OTP not working
3523 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3524
3525 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3526 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3527 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3528 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3529 for each call.)
3530 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3531 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3532
3533 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3534 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3535 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3536
31619da6
PH
3537PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3538 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3539 specified.
3540
bebaf0fc
PH
3541PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3542 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3543 "Linux".
3544
475fe28a
PH
3545PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3546 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3547 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3548
3549 warn !verify = sender
3550 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3551
3552 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3553 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3554
7e8bec7a
PH
3555PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3556
3557 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3558 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3559
3560 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3561 nomenclature these days.)
3562
e4a89c47
PH
3563PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3564 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3565
5ca2a9a1
PH
3566PH/30 In these circumstances:
3567 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3568 . First host does not offer TLS;
3569 . First host accepts first address;
3570 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3571 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3572 . Second host accepts second address.
3573 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3574 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3575 address.
7e8bec7a 3576
c688b954
PH
3577PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3578 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3579 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3580 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3581 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3582
fed77020
PH
3583PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3584 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3585
7fe1560f
PH
3586PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3587 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3588
ebb6e6d5
PH
3589PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3590 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3591 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3592
9c4e8f60
PH
3593PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3594 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3595 overlooked.
3596
3597PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3598
d7174846
PH
3599PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3600 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3601 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3602 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3603 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3604 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3605 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3606
3607 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3608 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3609 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3610 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3611 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3612
3613 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3614 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3615 routed further.
3616
cfe75fc3
PH
3617PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3618 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3619 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3620 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3621 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3622 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3623
be22d70e
PH
3624PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3625
0612b098
PH
3626PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3627 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3628 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3629 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3630 printable escape sequences.
3631
2e0c1448
PH
3632PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3633 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3634 body only.
3635
447d236c
PH
3636PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3637 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3638 are as follows:
3639
3640 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3641 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3642 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3643 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3644 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3645
3646 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3647 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3648 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3649
d20976dc
PH
3650PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3651
f656d135
PH
3652PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3653 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3654 play with."
3655
2e2a30b4
PH
3656PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3657 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3658 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3659 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3660 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3661 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3662 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3663 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3664 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3665 the log output.
3666
9176e9f0
PH
3667PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3668 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3669 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3670 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3671 "make".
3672
7982096b 3673
bbe902f0
PH
3674A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3675----------------------------------------
3676
3677Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3678changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3679needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3680in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3681that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3682release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3683from 4.43.
3684
3685I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36864.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3687those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3688historical information.
3689
3690
f7b63901 3691Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3692-----------------
3693
5fe762f6
PH
3694 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3695
139059f6 3696 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3697 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3698
7086e875
PH
3699 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3700 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3701 place.
3702
35af9f61
PH
3703 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3704 filter fails to execute.
3705
b668c215
PH
3706 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3707 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3708 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3709 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3710 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3711
a494b1e1
PH
3712 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3713
3714 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3715 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3716 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3717 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3718
c5fcb476
PH
3719 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3720 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3721 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3722 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3723 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3724
69358f02
PH
3725 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3726
5be20824
PH
372710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3728
eb2c0248
PH
372911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3730 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3731 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3732 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3733
2a3eea10
PH
373412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3735 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3736 sender verification.
3737
373813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3739 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3740
23c7ff99
PH
374114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3742
4deaf07d
PH
374315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3744 connection timeout.
3745
926e1192
PH
374616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3747 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3748
650edc6f
PH
374917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3750 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3751
2c7db3f5
PH
375218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3753 information about exactly what failed.
3754
3d235903
PH
375519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3756
7c7ad977
PH
375720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3758 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3759 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3760
981756db
PH
376121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3762 It is now set to "smtps".
3763
d4eb88df
PH
376422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3765 ignore_target_hosts.
3766
376723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3768 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3769 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3770 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3771 "[x.x.x.x]".
3772
7d468ab8
PH
377324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3774 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3775 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3776
377725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3778 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3779 wake it up if nothing else does.
3780
62c0818f
PH
378126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3782 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3783 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3784 end up negative.
3785
26034054
PH
378627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3787 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3788
af66f652
PH
378928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3790
90af77f4
PH
379129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3792 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3793 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3794 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3795 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3796 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3797 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3798 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3799
d8ef3577
PH
380030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3801 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3802 than one IP address.
3803
5cb8cbc6
PH
380431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3805 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3806 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3807 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3808
14702f5b
PH
380932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3810 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3811 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3812 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3813 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3814 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3815
063b1e99
PH
381633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3817 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3818 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3819 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3820
652e1b65
PH
382134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3822 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3823 respected.
3824
6f0c9a4f
PH
382535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3826 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3827 $sender_host_address.
3828
33397d19
PH
382936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3830 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3831 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3832 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3833 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3834 very small.
3835
7bb56e1f
PH
383637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3837
3838 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3839 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3840
ea3bc19b
PH
3841 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3842 just the host names, not the priorities.
3843
3844 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3845 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3846 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3847
ea3bc19b 3848 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3849 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3850
0bcb2a0e
PH
385138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3852 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3853 domain.
3854
2ac0e484
PH
385539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3856
4e1fde53
PH
385740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3858 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3859
de365ded
PH
386041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3861 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3862 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3863
f05da2e8
PH
386442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3865
d6453af2
PH
386643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3867
f7b63901
PH
386844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3869
387045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3871 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3872 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3873 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3874 because the tests only now provoked it.
3875
a444213a
PH
387646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3877 (this can affect the format of dates).
3878
0ec020ea
PH
387947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3880 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3881 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3882 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3883
b1206957
PH
388448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3885
388649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3887 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3888 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3889 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3890
26dd5a95
PH
389150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3892 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3893 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3894
343b2385
PH
389551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3896 autoreply.
3897
1c5466b9
PH
389852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3899 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3900 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3901 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3902 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3903 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3904 is going on).
3905
55ee9ee3
PH
390653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3907 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3908 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3909 the line.
3910
d38f8232
PH
391154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3912 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3913 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3914
3915 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3916 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3917 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3918 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3919 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3920 so I produce this patch..."
3921
3295e65b
PH
3922 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3923 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3924 is not defined.
3925
7102e136
PH
392655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3927 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3928 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3929 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3930 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3931
3ca0ba97
PH
393256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3933
c2bcbe20
PH
393457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3935 long debug lines gets shown.
3936
18ce445d
PH
393758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3938 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3939
1f5b4c3d
PH
394059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3941
3942 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3943 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3944 of $primary_hostname.
3945
b975ba52
PH
394660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3947 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3948 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3949 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3950 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3951 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3952 by change 4.50/55 above.
3953
3954 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3955 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3956 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3957 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3958 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3959 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3960 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3961
396261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3963 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3964 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3965 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3966
17ffcae7
PH
396762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3968 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3969
d95f9fdb
PH
397063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3971 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3972 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3973 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3974 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3975
86b8287f
PH
397664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3977 This has been fixed.
3978
60dc5e56
PH
397965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3980 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3981 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3982 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3983 the caching.)
3984
533244af
PH
398566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3986
a5a28604
PH
398767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3988 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3989 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3990 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3991
7e634d24
PH
399268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3993 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3994
3e11c26b
PH
399569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3996 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3997 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3998
6729cf78
PH
399970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4000 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4001 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4002 message there.
4003
00f00ca5
PH
400471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4005 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4006 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4007
c9bdd01c
PH
400872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4009 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4010 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4011 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4012
d43194df
PH
401373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4014 during host lookups.
4015
fe5b5d0b
PH
401674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4017 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4018
4019 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4020
76a2d7ba
PH
402175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4022 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4023 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4024 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4025 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4026 background.
4027
402876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4029 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4030
04f7d5b9
PH
403177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4032 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4033 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4034
bc60667e
PH
403578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4036
bb6e88ff
PH
403779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4038 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4039 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4040 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4041 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4042 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4043 process earlier.
4044
1e70f85b
PH
404580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4046 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4047 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4048 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4049 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4050
405181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4052 tables).
4053
4e01f9d6
PH
405482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4055
1ee1cef2
PH
405683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4057 "vacation" handling.
4058
6e2b4ccc
PH
405984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4060 OS variants using glibc.
4061
8e669ac1
PH
406285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4063
495ae4b0 4064
bbe902f0
PH
4065----------------------------------------------------
4066See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4067----------------------------------------------------
4068
4069
4070Exim version 4.44
4071-----------------
4072
4073 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4074 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4075 transport
4076
4077 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4078 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4079 place.
4080
4081 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4082 filter fails to execute.
4083
4084 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4085 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4086 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4087 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4088 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4089
4090 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4091 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4092 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4093 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4094
4095 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4096 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4097 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4098 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4099 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4100
4101 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4102
4103 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4104 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4105 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4106 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4107
4108 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4109 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4110 sender verification.
4111
411210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4113 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4114
411511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4116 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4117
411812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4119 ignore_target_hosts.
4120
412113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4122 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4123 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4124 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4125 "[x.x.x.x]".
4126
412714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4128 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4129 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4130
413115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4132 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4133 wake it up if nothing else does.
4134
413516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4136 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4137 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4138 end up negative.
4139
414017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4141 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4142
ea3a6f44 414318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4144
414519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4146 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4147 empty pattern.
4148
414920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4150 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4151 one IP address.
4152
ea3a6f44
NM
415321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4154 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4155 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4156 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4157 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4158 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4159
ea3a6f44
NM
416022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4161 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4162 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4163
416423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4165 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4166 $sender_host_address.
4167
416824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4169
ea3a6f44
NM
417025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4171 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4172 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4173
417426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4175 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4176
ea3a6f44
NM
417727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4178 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4179
ea3a6f44
NM
418028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4181 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4182 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4183 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4184
418529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4186 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4187 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4188
ea3a6f44
NM
418930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4190 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4191 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4192 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4193
ea3a6f44
NM
419431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4195 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4196 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4197
ea3a6f44
NM
419831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4199 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4200
ea3a6f44
NM
420132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4202 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4203 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4204 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4205 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4206 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4207 is going on).
bbe902f0 4208
ea3a6f44
NM
420933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4210 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4211 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4212 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4213 CAN-2005-0021
4214
ea3a6f44
NM
421534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4216 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4217 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4218 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4219 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4220 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4221 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4222
4223 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4224 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4225 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4226 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4227 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4228 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4229 CAN-2005-0021
4230
ea3a6f44
NM
423135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4232 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4233 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4234 CAN-2005-0022
4235
ea3a6f44
NM
423636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4237 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4238 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4239 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4240 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4241
ea3a6f44
NM
424237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4243 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4244 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4245 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4246 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4247
ea3a6f44
NM
424838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4249 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4250 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4251 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4252 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4253
4254
495ae4b0
PH
4255Exim version 4.43
4256-----------------
4257
4258 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4259 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4260 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4261 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4262 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4263 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4264 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4265
4266 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4267 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4268 the delivery.
4269
4270 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4271
4272 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4273
4274 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4275 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4276 to local_scan().
4277
4278 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4279 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4280 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4281 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4282 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4283
4284 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4285 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4286
4287 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4288
4289 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4290
429110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4292 header_sender only.
4293
429411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4295 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4296
429712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4298 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4299 affecting debugging statements).
4300
430113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4302
430314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4304 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4305 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4306 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4307 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4308 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4309 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4310 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4311 after the received time, and all would be well.
4312
431315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4314 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4315 condition in an expansion string.
4316
431716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4318
431917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4320 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4321 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4322 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4323 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4324 job under whatever limits there are.
4325
432618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4327
432819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4329 space).
4330
433120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4332 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4333 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4334 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4335 return path is set.
4336
433721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4338 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4339 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4340 binary data in such strings.
4341
434222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4343
434423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4345 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4346 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4347 failure, which is pointless.
4348
434924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4350
435125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4352
435326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4354 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4355 Sender: header lines.
4356
435727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4358 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4359 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4360
436128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4362 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4363 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4364 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4365 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4366 happens.
4367
436829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4369 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4370 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4371 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4372 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4373
437430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4375 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4376 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4377 1024.
4378
437931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4380 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4381
438232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4383 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4384
438533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4386
438732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4388
438933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4390
439134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4392 syntax error.
4393
439435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4395
439636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4397
439837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4399 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4400 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4401 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4402
440338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4404 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4405
4406
4407Exim version 4.42
4408-----------------
4409
4410 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4411 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4412 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4413 it was not quoted.
4414 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4415 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4416 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4417 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4418 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4419 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4420
4421 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4422 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4423 verification failure".
4424
4425 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4426 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4427 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4428 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4429
4430 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4431 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4432 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4433 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4434 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4435 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4436 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4437 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4438 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4439 treated as a timeout.
4440
4441 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4442 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4443 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4444 not set for Exim filters).
4445
4446 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4447 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4448 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4449
4450 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4451
4452 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4453 try to make them clearer.
4454
4455 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4456 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4457
4458 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4459
4460 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4461
446210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4463 only the Cygwin environment.
4464
446511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4466 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4467 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4468 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4469 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4470
447112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4472 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4473 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4474 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4475 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4476 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4477 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4478
447913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4480 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4481
448214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4483
4484 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4485 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4486 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4487
4488 To: susanne@some.where
4489
4490 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4491 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4492 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4493 of addresses in From: header lines).
4494
4495 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4496 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4497 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4498
4499 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4500 treated as non-personal.
4501
4502 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4503 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4504
450515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4506
450716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4508
450917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4510 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4511 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4512
451318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4514 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4515
451619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4517 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4518 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4519 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4520 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4521 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4522
452320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4524 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4525 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4526 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4527 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4528 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4529 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4530 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4531
4532 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4533
453421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4535 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4536
453722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4538 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4539 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4540
454123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4542 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4543
454424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4545 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4546 rather than long int.
4547
454825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4549
455026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4551
4552
4553Exim version 4.41
4554-----------------
4555
4556 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4557 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4558 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4559 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4560 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4561 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4562
4563
4564Exim version 4.40
4565-----------------
4566
4567 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4568 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4569
4570 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4571 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4572 socklen_t is defined.
4573
4574 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4575 always exist.
4576
4577 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4578 configured.
4579
4580 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4581 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4582 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4583 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4584 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4585
4586 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4587 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4588 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4589 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4590
4591 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4592 of flapping under certain conditions.
4593
4594 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4595 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4596 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4597
4598 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4599
460010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4601
460211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4603 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4604 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4605 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4606
460712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4608 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4609 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4610 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4611 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4612 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4613 preserved with the message after it was received.
4614
461513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4616 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4617 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4618 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4619 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4620 test suite worked just fine.
4621
462214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4623 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4624 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4625
462615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4627 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4628 string.
4629
463016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4631 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4632 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4633 does not fully solve it.
4634
463517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4636 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4637 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4638 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4639 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4640
464118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4642 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4643 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4644
464519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4646 string, for example:
4647
4648 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4649
4650 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4651 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4652 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4653 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4654 the routers could not see them.
4655
465620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4657 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4658
465921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4660 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4661 output).
4662
466322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4664 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4665 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4666 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4667 that needed quoting.
4668
466923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4670 was not being matched caselessly.
4671
467224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4673 backslashes.
4674
467525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4676 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4677 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4678 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4679 when use_sender is false.
4680
468126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4682
468327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4684
468528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4686
468729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4688 the configuration file.
4689
469030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4691 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4692
469331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4694
469532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4696 bytes in the message body.
4697
469833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4699 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4700 delivery.
4701
470234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4703
470435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4705
470636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4707 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4708 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4709 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4710 another IP address.
4711
4712
4713Exim version 4.34
4714-----------------
4715
4716 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4717 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4718
4719 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4720 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4721 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4722 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4723 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4724
4725 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4726 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4727
4728 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4729 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4730 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4731
4732 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4733 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4734 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4735
4736 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4737 for routers.
4738
4739 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4740 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4741 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4742 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4743 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4744 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4745 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4746
4747
4748Exim version 4.33
4749-----------------
4750
4751 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4752 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4753 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4754 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4755 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4756 default (and expected) setting.
4757
4758 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4759 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4760 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4761 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4762
4763 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4764 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4765
4766 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4767 in domain lists.
4768
4769 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4770 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4771 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4772 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4773 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4774 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4775
4776 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4777 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4778 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4779
4780 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4781 part (NOT match_host).
4782
4783 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4784
4785 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4786 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4787 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4788 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4789 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4790 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4791 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4792 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4793 the same named file.
4794
479510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4796 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4797 when Exim is built.
4798
479911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4800 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4801 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4802 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4803 a host name.
4804
480512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4806 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4807 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4808
480913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4810
481114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4812
481315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4814
481516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4816 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4817
481817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4819 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4820 before starting the TLS session.
4821
482218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4823
482419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4825 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4826
482720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4828 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4829 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4830 colon in the middle).
4831
4832
4833Exim version 4.32
4834-----------------
4835
4836 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4837 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4838 multiple configurations are in use.
4839
4840 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4841 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4842 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4843 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4844 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4845 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4846
4847 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4848 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4849
4850 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4851 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4852 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4853
4854 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4855 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4856 occurs.
4857
4858 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4859 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4860
4861 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4862
4863 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4864 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4865
4866 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4867
4868 -prval:sval
4869
4870 is equivalent to
4871
4872 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4873
4874 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4875 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4876 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4877 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4878 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4879
488010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4881 Exim's behaviour:
4882
4883 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4884 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4885 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4886 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4887 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4888 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4889
4890 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4891 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4892 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4893 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4894 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4895 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4896 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4897 string.
4898
4899 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4900 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4901 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4902 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4903 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4904
490511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4906
490712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4908 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4909 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4910
491113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4912
491314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4914 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4915 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4916 information.
4917
491815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4919 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4920
492116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4922 Three changes have been made:
4923
4924 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4925 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4926 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4927 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4928 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4929
4930 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4931 been restored.
4932
4933 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4934 the modified behaviour.
4935
4936
4937Exim version 4.31
4938-----------------
4939
4940 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4941 Larry Rosenman.
4942
4943 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4944 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4945
4946 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4947 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4948 try to track down a specific problem.
4949
4950 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4951 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4952 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4953
4954 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4955 warning.
4956
4957 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4958 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4959 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4960 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4961 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4962 some earlier ones do not.
4963
4964 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4965
4966 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4967 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4968 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4969 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4970 address literals are enabled, of course).
4971
4972 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4973
497410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4975 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4976 by a command such as
4977
4978 exim -f "" ...
4979
4980 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4981
498211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4983
498412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4985 remained set. It is now erased.
4986
498713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4988 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4989
499014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4991 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4992 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4993 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4994 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4995 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4996 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4997 appropriate error code.
4998
499915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5000 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5001 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5002 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5003 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5004 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5005
500616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5007 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5008 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5009
501017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5011 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5012 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5013 terminate the header.
5014
501518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5016 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5017 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5018
501919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5020 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5021 (4.30/29). In particular:
5022
5023 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5024 imposed.
5025
5026 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5027 to write a maildirsize file.
5028
5029 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5030 the transport, the new value overrides.
5031
5032 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5033 count.
5034
503520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5036 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5037 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5038 space or a tab.
5039
504021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5041 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5042 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5043 the fallback hosts.
5044
504522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5046 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5047 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5048
504923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5050 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5051 using a union.
5052
505324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5054 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5055 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5056
505725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5058
505926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5060
506127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5062
506328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5064 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5065 become corrupted.
5066
506729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5068 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5069 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5070 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5071 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5072 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5073 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5074 too great.
5075
507630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5077 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5078 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5079 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5080 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5081 incorrectly.
5082
508331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5084 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5085 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5086 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5087 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5088 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5089 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5090 cached value only when the same options are set.
5091
509232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5093
509433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5095 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5096 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5097 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5098 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5099
510034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5101 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5102 it is clearly obsolete.
5103
510435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5105 transport.
5106
510736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5108 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5109 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5110 times.
5111
511237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5113 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5114 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5115 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5116 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5117
511838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5119 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5120 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5121 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5122
512339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5124
5125 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5126
5127 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5128 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5129 2^31.
5130
513140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5132 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5133 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5134 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5135 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5136 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5137 $localpart_data.
5138
513941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5140 with the -f command-line option.
5141
514242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5143 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5144 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5145 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5146 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5147 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5148
514943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5150 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5151 line.
5152
515344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5154 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5155 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5156 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5157 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5158 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5159 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5160 buffer is too small.
5161
516245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5163 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5164
516546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5166 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5167 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5168 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5169 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5170 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5171 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5172 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5173 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5174
517547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5176 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5177 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5178
517948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5180 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5181 ACL").
5182
518349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5184 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5185 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5186 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5187 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5188
518950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5190 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5191 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5192 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5193 is set.
5194
519551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5196
519752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5198
519953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5200 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5201
520254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5203 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5204 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5205
520655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5207 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5208 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5209 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5210 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5211
521256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5213 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5214 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5215 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5216 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5217 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5218 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5219
522057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5221 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5222 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5223 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5224 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5225 the test of how many are available.
5226
522758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5228 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5229 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5230 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5231 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5232 new message is started.
5233
523459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5235 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5236
523760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5238 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5239
524061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5241 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5242 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5243 is no long logged.
5244
524562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5246 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5247 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5248 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5249 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5250 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5251 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5252
525363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5254 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5255 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5256 interpreted as octal.
5257
525864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5259 setting.
5260
526165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5262 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5263 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5264 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5265 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5266 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5267
526866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5269 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5270 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5271 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5272
5273 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5274 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5275 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5276 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5277
5278 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5279 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5280 is a bug fix.
5281
5282 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5283 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5284
528567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5286
528768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5288 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5289 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5290 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5291
529269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5293 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5294 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5295 supplied", which is not helpful.
5296
529770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5298 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5299 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5300
530171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5302 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5303 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5304 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5305 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5306 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5307 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5308 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5309
531072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5311 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5312 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5313 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5314 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5315
531673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5317 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5318 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5319 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5320 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5321 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5322
532374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5324 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5325 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5326
532775. Added write_rejectlog option.
5328
532976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5330 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5331 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5332 variables.
5333
533477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5335
533678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5337 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5338 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5339 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5340 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5341 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5342 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5343 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5344
534579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5346 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5347 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5348 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5349 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5350
535180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5352 Haardt.
5353
535481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5355 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5356 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5357 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5358 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5359 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5360 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5361 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5362 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5363
5364
5365Exim version 4.30
5366-----------------
5367
5368 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5369 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5370 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5371
5372 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5373 fixed.
5374
5375 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5376 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5377 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5378
5379 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5380 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5381 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5382 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5383 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5384 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5385
5386 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5387 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5388 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5389 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5390 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5391 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5392 the Exim test suite.
5393
5394 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5395 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5396 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5397 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5398
5399 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5400 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5401 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5402 specify it in this variable.
5403
5404 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5405 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5406 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5407 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5408
5409 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5410 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5411 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5412 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5413
5414 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5415 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5416 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5417 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5418 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5419
5420 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5421
542210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5423 they are logged.
5424
542511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5426 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5427 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5428 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5429 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5430
543112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5432 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5433
543413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5435 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5436 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5437 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5438 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5439
544014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5441 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5442
544315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5444 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5445 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5446
544716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5448 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5449
545017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5451 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5452
545318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5454 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5455 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5456
545719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5458 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5459
546020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5461 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5462 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5463 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5464
546521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5466
546722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5468 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5469 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5470 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5471
547223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5473
547424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5475 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5476
547725. Added .include_if_exists.
5478
547926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5480 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5481 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5482 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5483 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5484 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5485
548627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5487
548828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5489 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5490 this.
5491
549229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5493
549430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5495 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5496
5497 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5498 550 Sender verify failed
5499
5500 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5501 the final line of the response.
5502
550331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5504 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5505 all other user lookups.
5506
550732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5508 delivery time.
5509
551033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5511 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5512 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5513 result into an int without checking.
5514
551534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5516 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5517 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5518
551935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5520 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5521 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5522 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5523
552436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5525 correctly.
5526
552737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5528 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5529
553038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5531 to the empty sender.
5532
553339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5534 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5535 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5536 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5537 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5538 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5539 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5540 panic log.
5541
554240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5543 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5544 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5545 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5546 used.
5547
554841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5549 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5550
555142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5552 timestamps.
5553
555443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5555 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5556
555744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5558
555945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5560 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5561 logs.
5562
556346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5564 as soon as it is encountered.
5565
556647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5567
556848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5569 rewritten to "<>".
5570
557149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5572 recognizes a tab character.
5573
557450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5575 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5576 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5577 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5578
557951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5580
558152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5582 crash.
5583
558453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5585
558654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5587
558855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5589 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5590 2822.
5591
559256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5593 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5594 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5595 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5596 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5597
559857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5599 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5600
560158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5602 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5603 list (.included file names were always shown).
5604
560559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5606 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5607 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5608 root at that time.
5609
561060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5611 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5612
561361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5614
561562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5616
561763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5618
561964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5620 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5621 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5622 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5623 failures to open the logs.
5624
562565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5626 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5627 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5628 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5629 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5630 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5631 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5632
5633
5634Exim version 4.24
5635-----------------
5636
5637 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5638 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5639 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5640 change 4.23/1.
5641
5642 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5643 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5644 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5645
5646 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5647 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5648 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5649
5650 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5651 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5652 causing some misleading effects.
5653
5654 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5655 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5656 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5657
5658 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5659 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5660 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5661 queue-runner function directly.
5662
5663
5664Exim version 4.23
5665-----------------
5666
5667 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5668 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5669
5670 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5671 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5672 was always written to the default place.
5673
5674 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5675 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5676 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5677
5678 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5679
5680 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5681
5682 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5683 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5684 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5685
5686 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5687 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5688 must start.
5689
5690 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5691 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5692 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5693
5694 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5695 command line option is disabled.
5696
5697 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5698 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5699
5700 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5701
5702 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5703
5704 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5705 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5706
570710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5708
570911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5710 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5711 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5712 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5713 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5714 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5715
571612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5717 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5718 timeout.
5719
572013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5721 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5722
572314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5724 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5725
572615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5727 received was valid base64.
5728
572916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5730 name of the variable that was being set.
5731
573217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5733
573418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5735 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5736 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5737 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5738 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5739 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5740
574119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5742
574320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5744 nor realm was specified.
5745
574621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5747 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5748 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5749 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5750
575122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5752 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5753 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5754
575523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5756 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5757 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5758
575924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5760 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5761 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5762 some systems use these upper case variants.
5763
576425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5765 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5766 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5767 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5768
576926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5770
577127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5772 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5773
577428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5775 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5776 expansion variable.
5777
577829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5779
578030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5781 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5782 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5783 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5784
578531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5786 using it.
5787
578832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5789 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5790 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5791
579233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5793 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5794
579534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5796 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5797 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5798 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5799
580035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5801 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5802 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5803
580436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5805
580637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5807 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5808 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5809 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5810 aborted.
5811
581238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5813 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5814 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5815
581639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5817
581840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5819 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5820
582141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5822 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5823
582442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5825 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5826 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5827 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5828 when emails are that large.
5829
5830
5831
5832Exim version 4.22
5833-----------------
5834
5835 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5836 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5837
5838 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5839 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5840 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5841
5842 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5843 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5844 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5845
5846 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5847 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5848 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5849 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5850 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5851
5852 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5853 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5854 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5855 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5856 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5857 ever.
5858
5859 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5860 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5861 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5862 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5863 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5864 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5865 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5866 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5867 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5868 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5869 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5870 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5871 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5872 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5873
5874 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5875 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5876 parameterised it.
5877
5878 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5879 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5880 error should be diagnosed.
5881
5882 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5883 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5884 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5885 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5886 appeared instead of "NULL".
5887
588810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5889 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5890 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5891 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5892 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5893 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5894 proceeds).
5895
5896 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5897 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5898 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5899
5900
5901Exim version 4.21
5902-----------------
5903
5904 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5905 or receiver verification errors.
5906
5907 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5908 name.
5909
5910 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5911 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5912 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5913 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5914
5915 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5916 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5917 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5918 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5919 shouldn't happen again.
5920
5921 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5922 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5923 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5924
5925 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5926 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5927
5928 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5929
5930 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5931 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5932
5933 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5934 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5935 RFC.
5936
593710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5938 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5939 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5940
594111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5942 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5943 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5944 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5945
594612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5947 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5948 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5949 to define what should happen).
5950
595113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5952 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5953 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5954
595514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5956
595715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5958
595916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5960 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5961
596217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5963 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5964 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5965 structure in all cases.
5966
5967 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5968 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5969 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5970 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5971
597218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5973 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5974 domain name.
5975
597619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5977 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5978
597920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5980 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5981
598221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5983 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5984 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5985
598622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5987 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5988 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5989
599023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5991 the book and for uniformity.
5992
599324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5994
599525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5996 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5997 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5998 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5999 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6000 non-existent command as the problem.
6001
600226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6003 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6004 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6005
600627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6007
600828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6009 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6010 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6011
601229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6013 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6014 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6015 timestamps using strftime().
6016
601730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6018 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6019
602032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6021 transport-time rewrites.
6022
602333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6024 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6025 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6026 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6027
602834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6029 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6030
603135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6032 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6033 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6034 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6035 comma and a space.
6036
603736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6038 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6039 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6040 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6041 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6042 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6043 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6044
604537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6046 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6047 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6048 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6049 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6050
605138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6052 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6053 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6054 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6055 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6056 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6057 remaining text gets split now.
6058
605939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6060 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6061 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6062 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6063
606440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6065 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6066 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6067 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6068 $return_path.
6069
607041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6071 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6072 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6073 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6074 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6075 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6076 passed through if needed.
6077
607842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6079 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6080 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6081 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6082 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6083 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6084
608543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6086 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6087 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6088 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6089 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6090
609144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6092 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6093 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6094 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6095 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6096
609745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6098 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6099 noticed.
6100
610146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6102 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6103 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6104 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6105 mayhem of various kinds.
6106
610747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6108 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6109 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6110 the right test for positive values.
6111
611248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6113 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6114 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6115 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6116 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6117 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6118 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6119 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6120 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6121 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6122 envelope.
6123
612449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6125 module.
6126
612750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6128 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6129 forbidding it.
6130
613151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6132 the existing equality matching.
6133
613452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6135 dealing with inode numbers.
6136
613753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6138 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6139 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6140
614154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6142 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6143 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6144 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6145 local_scan().
6146
614755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6148 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6149 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6150 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6151 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6152 relay addresses has also been removed.
6153
615456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6155
615657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6157 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6158 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6159
616058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6161 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6162 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6163 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6164 processing applies to CR:
6165
6166 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6167 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6168
6169 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6170 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6171 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6172 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6173
617459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6175 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6176 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6177
617860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6179 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6180 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6181 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6182 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6183 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6184 arisen.
6185
618661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6187 program routers.
6188
618962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6190 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6191 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6192 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6193 adds:
6194
6195 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6196
6197 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6198
6199 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6200
620163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6202 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6203 not considered personal.
6204
620564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6206
620765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6208
620966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6210
621167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6212 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6213 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6214 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6215 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6216 header lines, and spool format errors.
6217
621868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6219 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6220 for more flexibility.
6221
622269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6223 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6224 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6225
622670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6227 Sabourenkov.
6228
622971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6230 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6231 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6232 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6233 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6234 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6235 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6236 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6237 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6238
623972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6240 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6241 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6242 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6243 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6244 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6245 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6246
624773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6248 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6249 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6250
625174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6252 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6253 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6254 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6255 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6256 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6257 instead of killing the process with assert().
6258
625975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6260 than Unicode encoding.
6261
626276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6263 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6264 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6265 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6266
626777. Added process_log_path.
6268
626978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6270 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6271
627279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6273 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6274
627580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6276 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6277 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6278
627981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6280 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6281 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6282 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6283 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6284 were applied:
6285
6286 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6287 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6288 as invalid.
6289
629082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6291 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6292 they will be used during message reception.
6293
6294
6295Exim version 4.20
6296-----------------
6297
6298The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6299
6300****