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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
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93JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
94 expanded.
95
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96JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
97
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98JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
99 it.
100
01a4a5c5 101JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 102 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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103 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
104 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
105
cb1d7830 106JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 107 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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108 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 110JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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111 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
112 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
113 TLS connections
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115JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
116 sites use this now.
117
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118JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
119 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
120 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
121 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
122 have a dsn_lasthop option.
123
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124JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
125 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 126 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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128JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
129
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130JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
131 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
132
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133JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
134 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
135
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136JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
137 /defer_ok option.
138
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139JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
140 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
141
fd4d8871 142JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 143 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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144 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
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146JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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147 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
148 specify a port-range.
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150JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
151 timeout value per server.
152
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153JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
154 now have the list separator specified.
155
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156JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
157 option values.
158
82c0c8ea 159JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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160 under OpenSSL.
161
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162JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
163
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164JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
165 rather than the verbs used.
166
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167JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
168 from 255 to 1024 chars.
169
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170JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
171
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172HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
173 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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175JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
176 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
177
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178HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
179 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
180
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181JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
182
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183JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
184
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185JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
186 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
187 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
188 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
189
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190JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
191
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192JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
193 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
194
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195JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
196 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
197
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198JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
199
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200JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
201
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202JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
203
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204JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
205 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
206
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207JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
208 added for tls authenticator.
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213TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
214 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
215 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
216 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
217 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
218 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
219 the script parsing/test process like normal.
220
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221TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
222 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
223 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
224 function when detected.
225
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226JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
227 cause callback expansion.
228
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229TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
230 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
231 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
232 instead of bool when processing it.
233
0f06b4f2 234JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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235 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
236
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237JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
238
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239JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
240
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241TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
242
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243TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
244 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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246JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
247 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
248 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
249 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
250 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
251 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
252
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253JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
254 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
255 exceeded it.
256
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257JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
258 version 3.3.6 or later.
259
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260JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
261 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
262 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 263 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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264 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
265 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
266 option is defined.
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268TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
269 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
270
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271JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
272 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
273 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
274 matches.
275
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276JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
277 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
278 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
279
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280JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
281 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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283JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
284 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
285 syntax errors.
286
3394b36a 287JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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289JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
290 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
291
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292TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
293 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
294 tarball.
295
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296JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
297
298JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
299 Bug 1561.
300
301JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
302 output list separator was used.
303
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307TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
308 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
309 return.
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311JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
312 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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314JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
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316TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 317 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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323TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
324
325 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
326 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
327 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
328 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
329 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
330 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
331
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332TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
333 utilities have not been installed.
334
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335JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
336 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
337
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338TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
339 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
340
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341TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
342 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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343 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
344 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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346JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
347
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348TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
349 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
350
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351PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
352 not dns_use_dnssec.
353
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354JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
355
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356TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
357 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
358 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
359
8ddef691 360TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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361 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
362 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
363 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
364 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 365 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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367JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
368
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369JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
370 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
371
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372JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
373 failed delivery.
374
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375JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
376
511a6c14 377JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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379JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
380 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
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382JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
383 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
384
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385TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
386
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387JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
388
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389JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
390 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
391
392 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
393 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
394 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
395
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396TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
397 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
398 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
399 analysis.
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401JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
402
8c51eead 403JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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404 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
405 lookup).
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407TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
408 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
409 Schlichting.
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fd3b6a4a 411JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 412 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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414TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
415 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
416
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417JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
418
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419TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
420 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
421 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
422
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423JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
424 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
425
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426JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
427 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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428 hosts_request_ocsp.
429
ed3bba5f 430JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 431 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 432 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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434JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
435
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436TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
437 Christian Aistleitner.
438
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439JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
440
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441TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
442 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
443
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444JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
445 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
446
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447JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
448 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
449
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450TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
451 support and error reporting did not work properly.
452
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453TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
454 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
455
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456TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
457 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
458 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
459
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460JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
461
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462PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
463 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
464 Jasper Wallace.
465
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466JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
467
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468TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
469 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
470 CVE-2014-2972
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476PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
477
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478PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
479 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
480
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481PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
482 by GnuTLS.
483
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484PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
485 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
486 routines.
487
13363eba 488PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 489
66645890 490PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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491 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
492 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
493 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
494 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 495
a3fb9793 496PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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497 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
498 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
499 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 500 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 501 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 502
d27f98fe 503TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 504
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505TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
506
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507TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
508 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
509
ae0e32ee 510TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 511 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 512 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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513
514TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 515
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516TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
517
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518TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
519 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
520
976b7e9f
JH
521JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
522
be4a1376
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523JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
524
ec4b68e5
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525PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
526
d7148a07
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527NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
528 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 529
585121e2 530JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 531
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532PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
533 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
534 function.
a5f239e4 535
13d08c90
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536PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
537 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
538
bef3ea7f
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539JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
540 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
541 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 542
846726c5
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543JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
544
3a796370
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545JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
546
ea722490 547JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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548 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
549
b1b05573
JH
550JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
551 Bugzilla 884.
552
362145b5
JH
553JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
554 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
555
3c0a92dc
JH
556JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
557 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
558
6d7c6175
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559PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
560 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 561 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 562
6f123593
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563JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
564 authenticators.
565
c8e2fc1e
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566JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
567 for control.
568
005ac57f
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569PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
570
3f1df0e3
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571PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
572 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
573 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
574 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
575
67bd1ab3
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576TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
577
578 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
579 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
580 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
581 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
582 the retry rules.
583
584 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
585 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
586 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
587
588 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
589 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
590 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
591 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
592
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593 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
594 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
595 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
596 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
597 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
598 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
599 delivery, as in LMTP.
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600
601 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
602 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
603
326cdc37
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604TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
605
606 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
607
608 Resent-From: f
609
610 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
611 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
612 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
613 username as equal to the username.
614
615 This change corrects that bug.
616
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617GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
618 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
619 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
620
eb505532
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621TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
622
14c7b357
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623PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
624 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
625 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
626 NULL dereference and crash.
627
94eaf700
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628JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
629
6f5a440a
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630PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
631 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
632 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
633
514ee161
SC
634SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
635
fd98a5c6
JH
636JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
637 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
638 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
639 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
640 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
641 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
642 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
643 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
644 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
645 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
646 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
647
035c7f1e
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648PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
649 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
650
ff284120
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651PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
652 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
653 Bugzilla 880.
654
26e72755
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655PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
656 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
657 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
658 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
659 an empty string is now equivalent.
660
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661PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
662 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
663 not performing validation itself.
664
700d22f3
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665PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
666 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
667
fcc8e047
JH
668JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
669 Bugzilla 321, 823.
670
7142daca
PP
671TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
672
8c020188
PP
673PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
674 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
675 other false fix of the same issue.
676 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
677 Bugzilla 1363.
678
d13cdd30
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679PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
680 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
681
e2fbf4a2
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682PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
683 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
684 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
685
f4c1088b
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686PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
687 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
688 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
689
c5c2182f
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690TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
691
73431ca9
JH
692JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
693
2d07a215
TL
694TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
695 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
696
a30a8861
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697TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
698 Alexander Miroch.
699
33382dd9
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700TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
701 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
702 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
703 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
704 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 705
046172e6
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706TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
707 the src/util/ subdirectory.
708
581d7bee 709TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 710 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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711 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
712
713TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
714 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
715 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
716 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
717
237b2cf2
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718TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
719
9fc5a352
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720TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
721 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
722 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 723
b10e4ec2
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724TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
725
e2cebd74
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726TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
727 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
728 interaction.
729
730TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
731 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
732
2519e60d
TL
733TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
734 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
735
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737Exim version 4.80.1
738-------------------
739
740PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
741 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 742 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 743
ea722490 744
b1770b6e 745Exim version 4.80
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746-----------------
747
748PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
749 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
750 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
751
23c7e742
NM
752NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
753
b322aac8
NM
754NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
755 improved.
756
4a891427
NM
757NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
758
c1e794ba 759PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 760
97753960
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761PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
762
763PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
764 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
765
df6303fa
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766PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
767 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
768
7e6a8985
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769PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
770 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
771
f1e05cc7 772PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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773 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
774 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 775
4c287009
PP
776PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
777
b98bb9ac
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778PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
779 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
780
4a6a987a
PP
781PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
782
c45dd180 783PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 784
7db8d074
PP
785PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
786 non-compliant senders.
787 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
788
eae0036b 789NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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790 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
791 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
792
dec5017e
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793PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
794 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
795 in spool file corruption.
796
c80c5570
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797PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
798 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
799 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
800 "Got SSL error 2".
801
076b11e2
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802TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
803 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
804 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
805
5407bfff
JH
806JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
807 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
808
9e45c72b
PP
809JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
810
e74376d8
PP
811PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
812 diagnostics.
813 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
814
da3ad30d
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815PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
816 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
817 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
818
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819PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
820 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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821 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
822 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 823
ef840681
PP
824PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
825 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
826
5bfb4cdf
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827PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
828 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
829 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
830 resolver implementation change.
831
c6e95d22
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832PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
833 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
834
9cbad13b
PP
835PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
836
9ee44efb
PP
837PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
838
6a6084f8
PP
839PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
840 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
841
12dd53c7
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842PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
843 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
844
9e45c72b 845JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
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846 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
847
17c76198
PP
848PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
849 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
850 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
851 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 852 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 853
53947857 854PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 855
eae0036b 856PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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857 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
858 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 859
9e45c72b 860JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 861
7390e768
PP
862PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
863 read-only, out of scope).
864 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
865
08488c86
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866PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
867 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
868 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
869 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
870
6475bd82
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871PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
872
81f91683
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873PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
874 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
875 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
876 real issues in debug logging.
877
5779e6aa
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878PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
879 assignment on my part. Fixed.
880
3375e053
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881PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
882 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
883 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
884
885PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
886 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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887 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
888 problems.
3375e053 889
9d26b8c0
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890PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
891 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
892
57eb9e91 893PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
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894 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
895 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
896 needs to override this, it can.
897
16880d1a
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898PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
899 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
900 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
901
a799883d
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902PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
903 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
904 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
905 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
906
3ecab157 907PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 908
0599f9cf 909
867fcbf5
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910Exim version 4.77
911-----------------
912
913PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
914 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
915
f1a29782
TF
916TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
917
ab42bd23
TK
918TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
919 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 920
0ca0cf52
TF
921TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
922 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
923
921b12ca
TF
924TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
925 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
926 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
927
928 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
929 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
930 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
931 not safe for signals.
932
933 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
934 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
935 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
936 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
937 exiwhat.
938
c99ce5c9
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939TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
940
941 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
942 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
943 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
944 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
945 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
946
947 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
948 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
949 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
950 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
951 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
952 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
953
954 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
955 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
956 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
957 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
958
959 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
960 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
961 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
962 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
963
964 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
965 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
966 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
967 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
968 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
969 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
970 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
971 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
972 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
973
974 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
975 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
976 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
977 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
978
979 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
980 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
981 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
982 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
983 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
984 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
985 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
986 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
987 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
988 details in the main documentation.
989
3634fc25
TF
990TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
991
792e8a19
TF
992TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
993
5901f0ab
TF
994TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
995 repository when doing development or release builds.
996
7f2a2a43
PP
997PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
998 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 999
061b7ebd
PP
1000PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1001 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1002 Bugzilla 97.
1003
e12f8c32
PP
1004PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1005
9e949f00 1006PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1007 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1008
1009PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1010 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1011
555ae6af 1012PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1013 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1014
1015PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1016 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1017
6f7fe114
PP
1018PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1019 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1020
c566dd90
PP
1021PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1022 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1023 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1024 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1025
d6cc7c78 1026PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1027 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1028 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1029
0d0e4455
PP
1030PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1031
3399bb60 1032PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1033
1034PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1035 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1036
0ca0cf52 1037
10906672
PP
1038Exim version 4.76
1039-----------------
1040
1041PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1042
754a0503
PP
1043PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1044 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1045
c0c7b2da
PP
1046PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1047
e97d1f08
PP
1048PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1049
084c1d8c
PP
1050PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1051 Bugzilla 1098.
1052
4e7ee012
PP
1053PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1054 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1055
c8d52a00
PP
1056TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1057 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1058
54e7ce4a
PP
1059PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1060 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1061
5ee6f336
PP
1062PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1063 Bugzilla 1104.
1064
c8d52a00 1065TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1066 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1067
1068TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1069 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1070 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1071 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1072
1073PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1074 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1075
10906672 1076
aa097c4c
NM
1077Exim version 4.75
1078-----------------
1079
4c9ef03a 1080NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1081 Bugzilla 1073
1082
7f3d9eff
TF
1083TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1084 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1085 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1086
159f52d2
TF
1087TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1088 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1089
0cc9542a
PP
1090PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1091 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1092 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1093
f7274286
PP
1094PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1095 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1096
7b797365
PP
1097PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1098 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1099
caacae52
NM
1100NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1101 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1102
09dcaba9
NM
1103NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1104 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1105
bc19a55b
PP
1106PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1107 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1108
bd4c9759
NM
1109NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1110 Fixes bug 943.
1111
b72aab72
PP
1112PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1113 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1114
2fe76745
PP
1115PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1116 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1117
76aa570c
PP
1118PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1119 SQL string expansion failure details.
1120 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1121
f1e5fef5
PP
1122PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1123 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1124
4d805ee9
PP
1125PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1126 extern declarations in function scope.
1127 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1128
cd59ab18
PP
1129PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1130 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1131 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1132 a kernel bug).
1133
332f5cf3
PP
1134PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1135 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1136
29cfeb94
PP
1137PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1138 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1139
660242ad
PP
1140PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1141 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1142
bc4bc4c5
PP
1143PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1144 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1145
2e64baa9
NM
1146NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1147 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1148 Dennis Davis.
1149
bddd7526
PP
1150PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1151
6bac1a9a
PP
1152PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1153
552193f0
NM
1154NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1155 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1156
1b587e48
TF
1157TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1158 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1159
aa097c4c 1160
8c07b69f
TF
1161Exim version 4.74
1162-----------------
1163
1164TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1165 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1166
c0ea85ab
TF
1167TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1168 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1169
0761d44e
TF
1170TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1171
0a349494
PP
1172DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1173 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1174 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1175
1176PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1177 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1178 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1179
fea24b2e
PP
1180PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1181 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1182 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1183 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1184
6545de78
PP
1185PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1186 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1187 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1188 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1189
1670ef10
PP
1190PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1191 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1192 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1193 arbitrary files.
1194
c0886197
PP
1195PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1196 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1197
b7487bce
PP
1198PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1199 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1200 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1201 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1202 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1203
8c07b69f 1204
97fd1e48 1205Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1206-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1207
1208PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1209 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1210 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1211
6901c596
PP
1212PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1213 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1214
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1215JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1216
77bb000f
PP
1217PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1218
a29e5231
PP
1219PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1220
ec5a0394 1221PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1222
55c75993
PP
1223PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1224
453a6645 1225PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1226 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1227 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1228 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1229
8544e77a
PP
1230PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1231 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1232 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1233 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1234 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1235
83e029d5
PP
1236PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1237
ed7f7860
PP
1238PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1239
7d9f747b
PP
1240PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1241
4b2241d2
PP
1242PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1243
10385c15
PP
1244PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1245
dbc4b90d
PP
1246PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1247
532be449
PP
1248PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1249
6a8de854 1250PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1251 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1252 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1253
5dc43717
JJ
1254JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1255
1256JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1257 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1258
3346ab01
PP
1259PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1260 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1261
491fab4c
PP
1262PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1263 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1264 Notification from John Horne.
1265
13eb9497
PP
1266PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1267 compatible.
1268
1269PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1270 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1271 it normally works.
1272
7f36d675
DW
1273DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1274 access.
1275
c1d94452
DW
1276DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1277 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1278 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1279
e2f5dc15
DW
1280DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1281 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1282 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1283 configuration file.
1284
cd25e41d
DW
1285DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1286 option (effectively making it always true).
1287
261dc43e
DW
1288DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1289 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1290
fa32850b
DW
1291DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1292 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1293
79d4bc3d
PP
1294PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1295 run-time user, instead of root.
1296
43236f35 1297PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1298 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1299
fb08281f
DW
1300DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1301 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1302 arguments.
3346ab01 1303
74935b98
DW
1304DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1305 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1306 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1307
90b6341f
DW
1308DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1309
57730b52
ML
1310NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1311
66581d1e 1312
465e92cf
JJ
1313Exim version 4.72
1314-----------------
1315
453a6645
PP
1316JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1317 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1318 typos
465e92cf 1319
453a6645
PP
1320JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1321 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1322 (Finput)
edae0343 1323
9bd3e22c
NM
1324NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1325 Patch from Alain Williams
1326
bb576ff7
NM
1327NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1328
5a1a5845
NM
1329NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1330 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1331
981a9fad
NM
1332NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1333 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1334
7fc497ee
NM
1335NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1336
1a41defa
JJ
1337JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1338
a466095c 1339NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1340 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1341
94a6bd0b
NM
1342TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1343
1344TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1345
1346MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1347 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1348 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1349
c1b141a8
NM
1350NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1351 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1352
b26eacf1 1353NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1354 Patch by Simon Arlott
1355
179c5980 1356PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1357 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1358
9bd3e22c 1359
7c6d71af
NM
1360Exim version 4.71
1361-----------------
1362
7d9f747b 1363TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1364
f013fb92
NM
1365NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1366
0eb8eedd
NM
1367NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1368
663ee6d9
NM
1369NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1370
177ebd9b
NM
1371NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1372
7c6d71af 1373
210f147e
NM
1374Exim version 4.70
1375-----------------
1376
cdd3bb85 1377TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1378 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1379
1380TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1381 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1382 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1383
1384TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1385 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1386 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1387
1388TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1389 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1390
210f147e
NM
1391NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1392 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1393 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1394 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1395
deafd5b3
NM
1396NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1397 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1398 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1399
089793a4
TF
1400TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1401
5f16ca82
TF
1402TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1403
dae9d94e 1404NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1405 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1406
7d9f747b 1407NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1408
06864c44
TF
1409TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1410 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1411 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1412 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1413
65a7d8c3 1414NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1415 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1416
23510047 1417TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1418
7d9f747b 1419NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1420
7d8eec3a 1421NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1422 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1423
89dec7b6
TF
1424TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1425 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1426
a99de90c
TF
1427TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1428 that they are available at delivery time.
1429
e2803e40
TF
1430TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1431
7199e1ee
TF
1432TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1433 incoming_port log selectors.
1434
e276e04b
TF
1435TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1436 setting expands to an empty string.
1437
ce552449 1438NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1439 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1440
e765a0f1 1441NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1442 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1443
4f054c63 1444NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1445 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1446
7d9f747b
PP
1447NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1448 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1449
7d9f747b
PP
1450NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1451 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1452
b52bc06e 1453NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1454 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1455
447de4b0
NM
1456NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1457
4c69d561 1458NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1459 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1460
d5c39246 1461NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1462 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1463
0b23848a
TK
1464TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1465
8f3414a1 1466NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1467 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1468
fb6f955d
NM
1469NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1470
1471NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1472
7d9f747b
PP
1473NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1474 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1475
7d9f747b
PP
1476NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1477 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1478
7d9f747b
PP
1479NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1480 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1481
7d9f747b
PP
1482NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1483 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1484
7d9f747b
PP
1485NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1486 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1487
7d9f747b
PP
1488NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1489 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1490
7d9f747b
PP
1491NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1492 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1493
7d9f747b 1494NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1495 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1496
7d9f747b 1497NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1498
7d9f747b
PP
1499NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1500 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1501
7d9f747b 1502NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1503
7d9f747b 1504NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1505
7d9f747b 1506NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1507
7d9f747b 1508NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1509
17792b53 1510NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1511 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1512
7d9f747b
PP
1513NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1514 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1515
91576cec 1516NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1517 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1518
7d9f747b
PP
1519NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1520 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1521
7d9f747b 1522NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1523
7d9f747b 1524NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1525
7d9f747b 1526NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1527
7d9f747b 1528NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1529
deafd5b3 1530
47db1125
NM
1531Exim version 4.69
1532-----------------
1533
4b3504d0
TK
1534TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1535 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1536 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1537
1538 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1539 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1540 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1541 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1542 build errors in sieve.c.
1543
81ea09ca
NM
1544NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1545 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1546 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1547
f13cddcb
SC
1548SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1549
7d9f747b 1550NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1551
7d9f747b 1552NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1553
7d9f747b 1554NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1555
1556
eb4c0de6
PH
1557Exim version 4.68
1558-----------------
1559
1560PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1561
6a3bceb1
PH
1562PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1563 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1564 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1565 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1566 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1567 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1568 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1569 for iplsearch lookups.
1570
1571 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1572 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1573 previously such lookups could never work.
1574
1575 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1576 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1577 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1578
2e30fa9d
TK
1579TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1580 version.
1581
0806a9c5
MH
1582MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1583 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1584 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1585 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1586 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1587 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1588
ae276964
TK
1589TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1590 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1591
0f2cbd1b
MH
1592MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1593 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1594 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1595 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1596 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1597 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1598
2b85bce7
PH
1599PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1600 local_scan API.
1601
93655c46
PH
1602PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1603
6c512171
PH
1604PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1605 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1606 encrypted.
1607
1608PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1609 by clients under certain conditions.
1610
aa6dc513
PH
1611PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1612 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1613
a96603a0
PH
1614PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1615
8f240103
PH
1616PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1617 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1618
1619PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1620
d677b2f2
PH
1621PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1622
d52120f2
PH
1623PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1624
64f2600a
PH
1625PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1626 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1627
8669f003
PH
1628PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1629
a4dc33a8
PH
1630PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1631 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1632
d6a60c0f
PH
1633PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1634
8f128379
PH
1635PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1636
8932dffe
PH
1637PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1638 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1639 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1640 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1641
ddea74fa 1642PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1643 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1644 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1645
ddea74fa 1646PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1647 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1648
ddea74fa
PH
1649PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1650
ce9f225c
PH
1651PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1652
19897d52
PH
1653PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1654
bc64a74d
PH
1655PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1656 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1657 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1658
eb4c0de6 1659
b4ed4da0
PH
1660Exim version 4.67
1661-----------------
1662
22ad45c9
MH
1663MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1664 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1665 Jan Srzednicki.
1666
b4ed4da0
PH
1667PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1668 issue a MAIL command.
1669
431b7361
PH
1670PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1671
1672 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1673
1674 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1675 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1676 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1677 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1678 item. This has been fixed.
1679
1680PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1681 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1682
83da1223
PH
1683PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1684 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1685
54fc8428
PH
1686PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1687 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1688 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1689
34c5e8dd
SC
1690SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1691
bbe15da8
PH
1692PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1693 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1694 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1695 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1696 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1697
0e8a9471
MH
1698MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1699 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1700 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1701
f0872424
PH
1702PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1703 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1704 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1705 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1706
b01dd148
PH
1707PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1708
6bf342e1
PH
1709PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1710
273f34d0
PH
1711PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1712 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1713 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1714 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1715 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1716
cf8b11a5
PH
1717PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1718
41c7c167
PH
1719PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1720 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1721 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1722 values).
1723
9c57cbc0
PH
1724PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1725
f3f065bb
PH
1726PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1727
047bdd8c
PH
1728PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1729
0ce9abe6
PH
1730PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1731
0e22dfd1
PH
1732PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1733
4c590bd1
PH
1734PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1735 no_callout_flush is set.
1736
09945f1e
PH
1737PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1738 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1739 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1740 fixed.
1741
c51b8e75
PH
1742PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1743
e28326d8
PH
1744PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1745 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1746 other ACL rejections are.
1747
75b1493f
PH
1748PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1749 with slight modification.
1750
7c5214ec
PH
1751PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1752 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1753
4311097e
PH
1754PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1755 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1756 connection.
1757
29f89cad
PH
1758PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1759 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1760
5e687460
SC
1761SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1762
c3611384
PH
1763PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1764 expansion side effects.
1765
5a11a7b4
PH
1766PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1767 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1768 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1769 be the same.
1770
0e20aff9
MH
1771MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1772 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1773 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1774
ca86f471
PH
1775PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1776 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1777 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1778 were accidentally chopped off.
1779
a14e5636
PH
1780PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1781 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1782 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1783 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1784 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1785 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1786 pipelining has not been advertised.
1787
ec95d1a6
PH
1788PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1789
42855d71
PH
1790PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1791 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1792 This has been fixed.
1793
57c2c631
PH
1794PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1795 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1796 reported on Solaris.
1797
58c01c94
PH
1798PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1799 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1800 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1801 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1802 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1803 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1804 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1805
dee5a20a
PH
1806PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1807 cpus.
1808
d2ee6114
PH
1809PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1810
b2d5182b
PH
1811PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1812
79749a79
PH
1813PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1814 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1815 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1816 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1817 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1818 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1819
c456d9bb
PH
1820PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1821 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1822 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1823 host_all_ignored option.
1824
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PH
1825PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1826 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1827 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1828 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1829 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1830 is what is supposed to happen).
1831
ebeaf996
PH
1832PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1833 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1834 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1835 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1836 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1837 uses the Exim user.
1838
2679d413
PH
1839PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1840 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1841 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1842 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1843 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1844 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1845 users.
1846
84024b72
PH
1847PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1848
8005d38e
SC
1849SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1850 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1851 (Jez Hancock).
1852 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1853 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1854
3298c6c6
SC
1855SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1856
a43a27c5
PH
1857PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1858
58eb016e 1859PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1860 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1861 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1862 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1863 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1864 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1865 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1866 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1867 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1868 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1869 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1870
b43a74ea
PH
1871PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1872 advertised in response to EHLO.
1873
b4ed4da0 1874
5dd1517f
PH
1875Exim version 4.66
1876-----------------
1877
1878PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1879 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1880
1881 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1882 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1883
1884 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1885 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1886 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1887
1888 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1889 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1890 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1891 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1892 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1893
1894
93cfa765
TK
1895Exim version 4.65
1896-----------------
1897
1898TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1899 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1900 versions. (#438)
1901
d6066548
MH
1902MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1903 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1904 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1905
4362ff0d
PH
1906PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1907 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1908 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1909 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1910 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1911 rather than extend the field.
1912
93cfa765 1913
944e9e9c
TF
1914Exim version 4.64
1915-----------------
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TK
1917TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1918 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1919 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1920 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1921 these files.
1922
1923TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1924 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1925 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1926
1927TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1928 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1929 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1930
1931TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1932 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1933 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1934 in the field name.
1935
2b1c6e3a
PH
1936PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1937 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1938 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1939 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1940 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1941 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1942 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1943 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1944 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1945 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1946 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1947
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1948PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1949 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1950
1951PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1952 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1953 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1954 ignores EPIPE as well.
1955
d203e649
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1956PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1957 (quoted-printable decoding).
1958
cc2ed8f7 1959PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1960 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1961
ddfcd446
PH
1962PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1963
d45b1de8
PH
1964PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1965
1966PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1967
38a0a95f 1968PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1969 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1970
a2405d83
JJ
1971JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1972 in 4.64-PH/09.
1973
1974JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1975 miscellaneous code fixes
1976
6ea85e9a
PH
1977PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1978 rejections.
1979
26da7e20
PH
1980PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1981 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1982 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1983 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1984 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1985 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1986 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1987 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1988
14aa5a05 1989PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1990 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
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1991 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1992 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1993 function.
1994 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1995 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1996 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1997 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1998 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1999 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2000 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2001 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2002 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2003
ff75a1f7
PH
2004PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2005 decoding.
2006
e6f6568e
PH
2007PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2008 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2009 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2010 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2011 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2012 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2013 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2014 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2015
d6f6e0dc
PH
2016PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2017 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2018 list.
2019
322050c2
PH
2020PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2021 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2022 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2023 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2024 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2025 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2026 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2027 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2028 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2029 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2030 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2031 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2032 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2033
08955dd3
PH
2034PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2035 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2036 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2037 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2038 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2039 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2040 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2041
1eccaa59
PH
2042PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2043 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2044 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2045 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2046 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2047 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2048 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2049 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2050 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2051 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2052
602e59e5
PH
2053PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2054 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2055 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2056 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2057 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2058
411ef850
PH
2059PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2060 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2061 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2062 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2063 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2064 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2065 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2066
7befa435
PH
2067PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2068 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2069 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2070 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2071 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2072 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2073 been verified.
2074
48da4259 2075PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2076 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2077 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2078 and authorization.)
2079
48da4259
PH
2080PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2081 if any retry times were supplied.
2082
d1d5595c
PH
2083PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2084 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2085 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2086
0ef732d9
PH
2087PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2088
328895cc
PH
2089PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2090
fd700877
PH
2091PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2092 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2093 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2094 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2095 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2096 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2097
8dce1a6f
PH
2098PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2099 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2100
17af4a17
PH
2101PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2102 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2103 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2104
2105PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2106 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2107 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2108 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2109 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2110 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2111 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2112 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2113 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2114
2115 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2116 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2117 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2118 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2119 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2120 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2121 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2122 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2123 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2124
2125 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2126 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2127 hammering the server.
2128
c1114884
PH
2129PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2130 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2131
7a0743eb
PH
2132PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2133
0d85fa3f
PH
2134PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2135 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2136 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2137
1bf43b78
PH
2138PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2139 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2140 one case where this was not true.
2141
520de300
PH
2142PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2143 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2144 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2145 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2146 fails.
2147
48c7f9e2
PH
2148PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2149 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2150 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2151 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2152 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2153 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2154 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2155 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2156 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2157 smtp transport.
2158
99ea1c86
PH
2159PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2160 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2161 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2162 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2163
a2042e78
PH
2164PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2165 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2166
4fbcfc2e
PH
2167PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2168 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2169 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2170
aa41d2de
PH
2171PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2172
af561417
PH
2173PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2174
3cc66b45
PH
2175PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2176
194cc0e4
PH
2177PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2178 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2179 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2180 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2181
a401ddaa
PH
2182PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2183 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2184
4e88a19f
PH
2185PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2186 be meaningful with "accept".
2187
d7d7b289
SC
2188SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2189 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2190
2191SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2192 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2193 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2194
2195SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2196 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2197 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2198 there is data to show.
2199 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2200
2201SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2202 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2203 as well as the number of messages.
2204
2205SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2206 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2207 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2208
2209SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2210 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2211 have a flag are now skipped.
2212
2213SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2214 Added the -emptyok flag.
2215
2216SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2217 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2218
0ea2a468
JJ
2219JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2220 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2221 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2222
2223JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2224 match 4.64-PH/13
2225
2226JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2227 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2228
2229JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2230
2231JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2232 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2233
8a10f5a4
PH
2234PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2235
30e18802
PH
2236PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2237 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2238 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2239 contravention of the specifications.
2240
55728a4f
PH
2241PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2242 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2243 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2244
d7837193
PH
2245PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2246 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2247 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2248
87054a31
PH
2249PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2250
ea2c01d2
MH
2251MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2252 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2253 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2254 some point in the past.
2255
e4fa6968
PH
2256PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2257 transport during callout processing was broken.
2258
56f5d9bd
PH
2259PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2260 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2261
922e1c28
PH
2262PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2263 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2264
21eb6e72
PH
2265PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2266 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2267
a0540757
PH
2268PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2269
944e9e9c 2270
478be7b0
SC
2271Exim version 4.63
2272-----------------
2273
2274SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2275 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2276
2277SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2278 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2279 there is data to show.
2280 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2281
2282SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2283 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2284
2b965a65
TF
2285TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2286 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2287
45b91596
PH
2288TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2289 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2290
c59f5781
TF
2291TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2292 submissions from trusted users.
2293
90fc3069
TF
2294TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2295 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2296
6083aca0
TF
2297TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2298 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2299 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2300 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2301 there is now a framework to start from.
2302
765b530f
PH
2303PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2304 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2305 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2306
4e167a8c
PH
2307PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2308
4608d683
PH
2309PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2310
b8dc3e4a
PH
2311PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2312
5418e93b
PH
2313PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2314 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2315 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2316
b4a9bda2
PH
2317PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2318 libradius.
2319
45b91596
PH
2320PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2321 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2322 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2323
5547e2c5
PH
2324PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2325 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2326 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2327 its arguments.
2328
dbcef0ea
PH
2329PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2330 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2331 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2332 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2333 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2334
25257489
PH
2335PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2336 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2337
c816d124
PH
2338PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2339
a9ccd69a
PH
2340PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2341 operations in malware.c.
2342
75fa1910
PH
2343PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2344 signatures.
2345
a7d7aa58
PH
2346PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2347 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2348 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2349 all.
2350
42119b09
PH
2351PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2352 statements to "add_header".
2353
41609df5
PH
2354PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2355 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2356
a5bd321b
PH
2357PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2358 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2359 latter.
2360
e85a7ad5 2361PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2362 so that it is now:
2363
e85a7ad5
PH
2364 ${if or { \
2365 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2366 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2367 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2368 }{no}{yes}}
2369
e85a7ad5
PH
2370 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2371 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2372
d8fe1c03
PH
2373PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2374 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2375
16282d2b
PH
2376PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2377 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2378 any possible encoding problems.
2379
35d40a98
PH
2380PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2381 but not after initializing Perl.
2382
034d99ab
PH
2383PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2384 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2385 apparently, which is not desirable.
2386
6ec97b1b
PH
2387PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2388 queries.
2389
e22ca4ac
JJ
2390JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2391 --not options
2392
2393JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2394
33d73e3b
PH
2395PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2396 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2397 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2398 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2399
9ecb03f3
PH
2400PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2401 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2402 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2403
084efe8d
PH
2404PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2405 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2406 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2407 0.12.
2408
366fc9f0
PH
2409PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2410 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2411 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2412 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2413 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2414
c59f5781 2415
c887c79e
TF
2416Exim version 4.62
2417-----------------
2418
2419TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2420 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2421
1cce3af8
PH
2422PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2423 patch).
2424
afb3eaaf
PH
2425PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2426 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2427 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2428 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2429 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2430 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2431 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2432 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2433 451 error is used.
2434
e173618b
PH
2435PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2436
dd16e114
PH
2437PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2438 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2439 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2440
f7fd3850
PH
2441PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2442 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2443 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2444 odd errors.
2445
d87df92c
PH
2446PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2447 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2448
7e9f683d
PH
2449PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2450 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2451 option (which defaults to 0600).
2452
bfad5236
PH
2453PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2454
01c490df
PH
2455PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2456 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2457 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2458 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2459 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2460 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2461 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2462
d6629cdc
PH
2463PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2464
1cce3af8 2465
214e2000
PH
2466Exim version 4.61
2467-----------------
2468
2469PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2470 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2471 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2472 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2473 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2474 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2475 addresses as local.
2476
f9daeae0
PH
2477PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2478 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2479
7e66e54d
PH
2480PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2481
c8ea1597
PH
2482PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2483 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2484 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2485 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2486 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2487 grumble.
2488
911f6fde
PH
2489PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2490 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2491
47ca6d6c
PH
2492PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2493 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2494 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2495 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2496 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2497
ed0e9820
PH
2498PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2499 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2500 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2501 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2502
eff37e47
PH
2503PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2504 be the same on different OS.
2505
1921d2ea
PH
2506PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2507 testing.
2508
b3f69ca8
JJ
2509JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2510 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2511
2512JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2513 in 4.61-PH/06
2514
424a1c63
PH
2515PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2516 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2517 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2518 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2519 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2520 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2521 bounce message.
2522
7a100415
PH
2523PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2524 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2525 when Exim was called.
2526
19b9dc85
PH
2527PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2528 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2529
309bd837
PH
2530PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2531 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2532 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2533 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2534
59e82a2a
PH
2535PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2536 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2537 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2538 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2539 changes:
2540
2541 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2542 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2543 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2544
2545 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2546 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2547 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2548
9edc04ce
PH
2549PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2550 feature).
2551
1349e1e5
PH
2552PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2553 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2554 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2555 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2556 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2557 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2558 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2559 values from the SRV records were lost.
2560
ea49d0e1
PH
2561PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2562 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2563 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2564
064a94c9
PH
2565PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2566 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2567 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2568
727071f8
PH
2569PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2570 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2571 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2572 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2573 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2574 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2575 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2576 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2577 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2578 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2579
f78eb7c6
PH
2580PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2581 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2582 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2583
21c28500
PH
2584PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2585 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2586
2587PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2588 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2589 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2590 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2591 is given.
2592
1688f43b
PH
2593PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2594 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2595 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2596
2597PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2598 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2599 PH/23 above applies.
2600
9675b384
PH
2601PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2602 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2603 (for which there is an explicit test).
2604
6a3f1455
PH
2605PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2606
dac79d3e
PH
2607PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2608 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2609 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2610 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2611 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2612
5977a0b3
PH
2613PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2614 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2615 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2616 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2617
c91535f3
PH
2618PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2619 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2620 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2621
0d46a8c8
PH
2622PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2623
278c6e6c
PH
2624PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2625
2cbb4081
PH
2626PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2627 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2628 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2629
3eef829e
PH
2630PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2631 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2632 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2633 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2634 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2635
1ab95fa6
PH
2636PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2637 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2638 the message gets confusing).
2639
230205fc
PH
2640PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2641 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2642 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2643 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2644
75e0e026
PH
2645PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2646 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2647 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2648 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2649 same order.
2650
2651PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2652 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2653 the different processes.
2654
145396a6
PH
2655PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2656
3cd34f13
PH
2657PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2658
11121d3d
JJ
2659JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2660 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2661
2662JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2663 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2664
2665JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2666 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2667 messages matching specified criteria.
2668
8def5aaf
PH
2669PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2670
929ba01c
PH
2671PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2672 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2673
2632889e
PH
2674PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2675 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2676 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2677 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2678 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2679 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2680 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2681 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2682 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2683 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2684
944a9c55
PH
2685PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2686 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2687 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2688
4a23603b
PH
2689PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2690
4730f942
PH
2691PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2692 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2693 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2694 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2695 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2696 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2697 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2698 the variable.
2699
30dba1e6
PH
2700PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2701 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2702
382afc6b
PH
2703PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2704
a86229cf
PH
2705PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2706
50c99ba6
PH
2707PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2708
d35e429d
PH
2709PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2710 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2711 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2712 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2713 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2714 size of the count of files.
2715
f90d018c
PH
2716PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2717
75def545
PH
2718PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2719 used in LMTP mode:
2720
2721 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2722 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2723 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2724 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2725
2726 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2727 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2728 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2729
2730PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2731 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2732 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2733 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2734 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2735
c46782ef
PH
2736PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2737 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2738
71fafd95
PH
2739PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2740 will now be deprecated.
2741
2c5db4fd
PH
2742PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2743
9cf6b11a
JJ
2744JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2745 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2746 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2747
2748JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2749 with very large, slow to parse queues
2750
2751JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2752
2753JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2754
898d150f
PH
2755PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2756 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2757 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2758 SMTP output lines.
2759
46218253
PH
2760PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2761 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2762 Sieve code now uses this.
2763
e97957bc
PH
2764PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2765 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2766
81e509d7
PH
2767PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2768 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2769
3d240ff7
PH
2770PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2771
b37c4101
PH
2772PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2773 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2774 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2775 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2776 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2777
79378e0f
PH
2778PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2779 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2780 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2781 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2782
e49c7bb4
PH
2783PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2784
d114ec46
PH
2785PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2786
f3d7df6c
PH
2787PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2788 is preferred over IPv4.
2789
715ab376
PH
2790PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2791 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2792 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2793 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2794 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2795 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2796 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2797
6b31b150
PH
2798PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2799 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2800 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2801
2802PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2803
d515a917
PH
2804PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2805 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2806 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2807 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2808 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2809 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2810 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2811 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2812 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2813 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2814 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2815
9b8fadde
PH
2816PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2817 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2818 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2819
214e2000 2820
5de37277
PH
2821Exim version 4.60
2822-----------------
2823
cc38ddbf
PH
2824PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2825
2826 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2827 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2828
2829 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2830 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2831 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2832
72fdd6ae
PH
2833PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2834
2835 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2836 not a single digit.
2837
2838 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2839 string.
2840
2841 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2842 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2843 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2844 silly things.
2845
2846 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2847 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2848
2849 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2850 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2851
cb741023
PH
2852PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2853 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2854 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2855
f174f16e
PH
2856PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2857 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2858
c25242d7
PH
2859PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2860 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2861
2862 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2863
2864 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2865 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2866 this:
2867
2868 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2869
82c19f95
PH
2870PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2871 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2872 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2873 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2874 identical. For example:
2875
2876 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2877
2878 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2879 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2880 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2881
d7ffbc12
PH
2882PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2883 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2884 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2885 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2886
9f526266
PH
2887PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2888 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2889 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2890 message.
2891
87fcc8b9
PH
2892PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2893
2894 o fixes some comments
2895 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2896 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2897 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2898 and documents the missing references header update
2899
2900 and most important:
2901
2902 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2903 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2904 result)
2905
456682f5
PH
2906PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2907 Electronic Mail") by including:
2908
2909 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2910
2911 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2912 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2913 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2914 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2915 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2916
2917 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2918
2919 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2920
2921 The auto-replied keyword:
2922
2923 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2924 message by an automatic process,
2925
2926 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2927
2928 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2929 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2930
2931 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2932 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2933 other messages.
2934
3e46c1aa
PH
2935PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2936 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2937
49826d12
PH
2938PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2939
eba0c039
PH
2940PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2941 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2942 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2943
a0d6ba8a
PH
2944PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2945 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2946 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2947
f0917727
PH
2948PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2949 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2950 and treats the condition as false.
2951
096fee00
PH
2952PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2953
024bd3c2
PH
2954PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2955 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2956 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2957 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2958 not changing the active code.
2959
2960 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2961 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2962
2963 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2964 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2965
df199fec
PH
2966PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2967 (Bugzilla #53).
2968
d27f1df3
PH
2969PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2970 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2971 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2972 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2973 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2974 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2975 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2976 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2977 the text comparison.
2978
96776534
PH
2979PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2980 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2981 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2982 The same fix has been applied.
2983
5de37277 2984
9a799bc0
PH
2985Exim version 4.54
2986-----------------
2987
2988PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2989 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2990 It now does.
2991
99a4b039
PH
2992PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2993 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2994
2995PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2996
4b233853
PH
2997PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2998 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2999 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3000 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3001 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3002
8857ccfd
PH
3003TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3004 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3005 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3006 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3007 or /domain=).
3008
433a2980
PH
3009PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3010 testing suite.
3011
3e46c1aa 3012
9a799bc0 3013
e3a311ba
TK
3014Exim version 4.53
3015-----------------
3016
3017TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3018 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3019
13b685f9
PH
3020PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3021
395ff96d
PH
3022PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3023
5b68f6e4
PH
3024PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3025 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3026 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3027
1ab52c69
PH
3028PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3029 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3030 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3031
b07e6aa3
PH
3032PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3033 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3034 operating systems.
3035
254e032f
PH
3036PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3037 ${stat: expansion item.
3038
3af76a81
PH
3039PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3040 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3041
2548ba04
PH
3042PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3043 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3044 file for comments.
3045
b6c6011d
PH
3046PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3047
cf39cf57
PH
3048PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3049 setting.
3050
f1513293
PH
3051PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3052 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3053
727549a4
PH
3054TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3055
af46795e
PH
3056PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3057 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3058 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3059 the end of the subprocess.
3060
d7b47fd0
PH
3061PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3062 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3063 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3064 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3065 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3066
ee744174
JJ
3067JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3068
b582ab87
PH
3069TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3070
41a13e0a
PH
3071PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3072 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3073
f625cc5a
PH
3074PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3075
3076PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3077
21f7af35
PH
3078PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3079 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3080 HP-UX compiler.
3081
31480e42
PH
3082PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3083
2d280592
PH
3084PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3085 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3086 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3087
7cd1141b
PH
3088PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3089 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3090
3091PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3092 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3093
750af86e
PH
3094PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3095 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3096
3097 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3098 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3099
3100 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3101 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3102 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3103 contributed by a Radius user.
3104
3105PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3106 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3107
4304270b
TK
3108TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3109 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3110
750af86e
PH
3111PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3112 available.
3113
64ffc24f
PH
3114PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3115 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3116 received.
3117
5dd9625b
PH
3118PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3119 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3120 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3121 header lines when this was not necessary.
3122
5591031b
PH
3123PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3124
ba18e66a
PH
3125PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3126 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3127 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3128 exists".
3129
9cec981f
PH
3130PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3131 -bV or -d is used.
3132
aa2b5c79
PH
3133PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3134 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3135 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3136 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3137
48a53b7f
PH
3138PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3139
1c59d63b
PH
3140PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3141
671012da
TK
3142TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3143
1509d3a8
PH
3144PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3145
3146PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3147 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3148 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3149 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3150 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3151 settings.
3152
3153PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3154
2fe1a124
PH
3155PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3156 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3157 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3158 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3159 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3160 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3161 which is clearly wrong.
3162
8800895a
PH
3163PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3164
ccfdb010
PH
3165PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3166 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3167 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3168 subsequently added.
3169
1130bfb0
PH
3170PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3171 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3172
ebcb507f
PH
3173PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3174
c35e155c
PH
3175PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3176 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3177
95d1f782
PH
3178PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3179 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3180
fd6de02e
PH
3181PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3182 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3183
58de37c5
PH
3184PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3185 recipients, not senders.
3186
261cf466
TF
3187TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3188 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3189
3ee512ff
PH
3190PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3191
e08c430f
PH
3192PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3193
bef5a11f
PH
3194PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3195 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3196 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3197 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3198
7546de58
TF
3199TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3200
e5d5a95f
TF
3201TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3202 clock is set back in time.
3203
2e88a017
TF
3204TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3205 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3206
a5f65aa4
TF
3207TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3208 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3209
e7726cbf
PH
3210PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3211 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3212 (see PH/47 above).
3213
a7fdad5b
TF
3214TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3215 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3216 header rewrites.
3217
6af56900
PH
3218PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3219 type ("H").
3220
0925ede6
PH
3221PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3222
66afa403
TF
3223TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3224 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3225 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3226
0154e85a
TF
3227TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3228 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3229 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3230 helo verification defer as a failure.
3231
16f12c76
PH
3232PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3233 actual error message.
3234
bbe902f0 3235
e5a9dba6
PH
3236Exim version 4.52
3237-----------------
3238
3239TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3240
22c3b60b
PH
3241PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3242 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3243 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3244 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3245
06a9b4b5
PH
3246TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3247
c1ac6996
PH
3248PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3249 can still be requested.
3250
9c7a242c
PH
3251PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3252 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3253 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3254 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3255
87ba3f5f
PH
3256TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3257 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3258 circumstances, but probably never did.
3259
3260PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3261 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3262 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3263 in the header line.
3264
29aba418
TF
3265TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3266
fe0dab11
TF
3267TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3268 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3269
11d337a4
TK
3270TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3271
3272TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3273
415c8f3b
PH
3274PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3275 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3276 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3277 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3278 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3279 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3280
958541e9
PH
3281PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3282 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3283 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3284 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3285 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3286 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3287
c206415f
TK
3288TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3289 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3290
2a4be8f9
PH
3291PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3292 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3293
1cba11c5
SC
3294SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3295 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3296
3297SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3298
3299SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3300
3301SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3302
3303SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3304
3305SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3306
3307SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3308
1005d00e
TK
3309TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3310
3311TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3312 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3313 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3314
3315TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3316 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3317 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3318 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3319
9b4768fa
PH
3320PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3321 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3322 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3323
3324PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3325 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3326 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3327 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3328
0d7eb84a
PH
3329PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3330 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3331 to be made).
3332
3333PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3334 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3335 should work with maildirs and everything.
3336
40727bee
TK
3337TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3338 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3339
554d2369
TF
3340TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3341 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3342
1f922db1
PH
3343PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3344 function for BDB 4.3.
3345
ef213c3b
PH
3346PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3347
8ac170f3
PH
3348PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3349 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3350 involved.
3351
b1c749bb
PH
3352PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3353 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3354 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3355 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3356 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3357 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3358
4aac9b49
PH
3359PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3360 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3361 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3362 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3363 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3364 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3365 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3366 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3367
294520c8
TK
3368TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3369 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3370 details.
3371
5bd022fe
PH
3372PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3373 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3374
90e9ce59
PH
3375PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3376 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3377 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3378 test. It is now used for both.
3379
5ea81592
PH
3380PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3381 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3382 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3383 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3384 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3385 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3386
c6c2dc1d
PH
3387PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3388 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3389 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3390 string_vformat().
3391
fffffe4c
PH
3392PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3393 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3394 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3395
9a26b6b2
PH
3396PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3397 experimental DomainKeys support:
3398
3399 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3400 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3401 the control was given.
3402
3403 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3404
4aee0225
PH
3405PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3406
32d668a5
PH
3407PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3408
8187c3f3
PH
3409PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3410 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3411 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3412 db.h files).
3413
ff790e47 3414PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3415 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3416 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3417 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3418 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3419 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3420 course.
ff790e47 3421
5417f6d1
PH
3422PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3423 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3424 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3425 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3426 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3427 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3428
59cf8544
PH
3429PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3430 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3431 do -d+all out of habit.
3432
e7ad8a65
PH
3433PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3434 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3435 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3436
ade42478
PH
3437PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3438 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3439 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3440 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3441 record types that Exim uses.
3442
182ad5cf
PH
3443PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3444 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3445 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3446 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3447 non-existent file that was broken.
3448
b0d9fc80
TK
3449TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3450 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3451
3452TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3453 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3454 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3455
3456TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3457
47c7a64a
PH
3458PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3459 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3460 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3461 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3462 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3463 same time.
3464
a388bce4
SC
3465SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3466 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3467 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3468 at a slight CPU cost.
3469
3470SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3471 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3472
3473SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3474 by Marc Sherman.
3475
0793e4ed
SC
3476SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3477
c58b88df
PH
3478PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3479 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3480
e7ad8a65 3481
7982096b
PH
3482Exim version 4.51
3483-----------------
3484
1a46a8c5
PH
3485TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3486 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3487
2f079f46 3488TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3489
3490TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3491
3492PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3493 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3494
3495PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3496 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3497 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3498 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3499 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3500 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3501 file.
3502
3503PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3504 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3505 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3506 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3507 these two options.
3508
3509PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3510 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3511 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3512 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3513 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3514 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3515 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3516 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3517
3518PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3519 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3520
3521PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3522 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3523 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3524 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3525 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3526 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3527
3528PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3529 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3530 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3531 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3532
3533PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3534 Finch).
3535
3536PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3537 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3538
49c2d5ea
PH
3539PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3540 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3541 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3542 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3543 message.
49c2d5ea 3544
bf759a8b
PH
3545PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3546
83364d30
PH
3547PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3548 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3549
7999bbd7
PH
3550PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3551 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3552 to what was transported.)
3553
7dbf77c9
PH
3554TF/01 Added $received_time.
3555
74e0617f
PH
3556PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3557 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3558 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3559 spamd_address settings.
3560
2f079f46
PH
3561PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3562 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3563 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3564 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3565 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3566
8c841523
PH
3567PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3568
7766a4f0
PH
3569PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3570 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3571 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3572 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3573 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3574
8b417f2c
PH
3575PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3576 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3577
901f42cb
PH
3578PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3579 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3580 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3581 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3582 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3583 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3584 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3585 for failure.
3586
f9b9210e
PH
3587PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3588 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3589 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3590 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3591 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3592 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3593 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3594 "input=".
3595
54cdb463
PH
3596PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3597
cf00dad6
PH
3598PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3599 driver and ACL definitions.
3600
acb1b346
PH
3601PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3602 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3603
c5ddb310
PH
3604PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3605 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3606 understands it better than I do:
3607
3608 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3609 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3610
3611 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3612 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3613 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3614 => three warnings about OTP not working
3615 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3616
3617 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3618 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3619 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3620 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3621 for each call.)
3622 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3623 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3624
3625 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3626 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3627 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3628
31619da6
PH
3629PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3630 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3631 specified.
3632
bebaf0fc
PH
3633PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3634 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3635 "Linux".
3636
475fe28a
PH
3637PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3638 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3639 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3640
3641 warn !verify = sender
3642 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3643
3644 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3645 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3646
7e8bec7a
PH
3647PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3648
3649 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3650 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3651
3652 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3653 nomenclature these days.)
3654
e4a89c47
PH
3655PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3656 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3657
5ca2a9a1
PH
3658PH/30 In these circumstances:
3659 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3660 . First host does not offer TLS;
3661 . First host accepts first address;
3662 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3663 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3664 . Second host accepts second address.
3665 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3666 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3667 address.
7e8bec7a 3668
c688b954
PH
3669PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3670 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3671 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3672 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3673 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3674
fed77020
PH
3675PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3676 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3677
7fe1560f
PH
3678PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3679 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3680
ebb6e6d5
PH
3681PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3682 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3683 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3684
9c4e8f60
PH
3685PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3686 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3687 overlooked.
3688
3689PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3690
d7174846
PH
3691PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3692 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3693 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3694 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3695 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3696 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3697 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3698
3699 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3700 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3701 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3702 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3703 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3704
3705 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3706 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3707 routed further.
3708
cfe75fc3
PH
3709PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3710 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3711 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3712 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3713 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3714 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3715
be22d70e
PH
3716PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3717
0612b098
PH
3718PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3719 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3720 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3721 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3722 printable escape sequences.
3723
2e0c1448
PH
3724PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3725 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3726 body only.
3727
447d236c
PH
3728PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3729 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3730 are as follows:
3731
3732 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3733 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3734 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3735 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3736 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3737
3738 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3739 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3740 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3741
d20976dc
PH
3742PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3743
f656d135
PH
3744PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3745 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3746 play with."
3747
2e2a30b4
PH
3748PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3749 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3750 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3751 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3752 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3753 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3754 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3755 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3756 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3757 the log output.
3758
9176e9f0
PH
3759PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3760 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3761 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3762 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3763 "make".
3764
7982096b 3765
bbe902f0
PH
3766A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3767----------------------------------------
3768
3769Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3770changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3771needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3772in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3773that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3774release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3775from 4.43.
3776
3777I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
37784.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3779those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3780historical information.
3781
3782
f7b63901 3783Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3784-----------------
3785
5fe762f6
PH
3786 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3787
139059f6 3788 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3789 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3790
7086e875
PH
3791 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3792 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3793 place.
3794
35af9f61
PH
3795 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3796 filter fails to execute.
3797
b668c215
PH
3798 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3799 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3800 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3801 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3802 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3803
a494b1e1
PH
3804 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3805
3806 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3807 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3808 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3809 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3810
c5fcb476
PH
3811 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3812 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3813 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3814 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3815 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3816
69358f02
PH
3817 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3818
5be20824
PH
381910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3820
eb2c0248
PH
382111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3822 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3823 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3824 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3825
2a3eea10
PH
382612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3827 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3828 sender verification.
3829
383013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3831 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3832
23c7ff99
PH
383314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3834
4deaf07d
PH
383515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3836 connection timeout.
3837
926e1192
PH
383816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3839 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3840
650edc6f
PH
384117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3842 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3843
2c7db3f5
PH
384418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3845 information about exactly what failed.
3846
3d235903
PH
384719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3848
7c7ad977
PH
384920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3850 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3851 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3852
981756db
PH
385321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3854 It is now set to "smtps".
3855
d4eb88df
PH
385622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3857 ignore_target_hosts.
3858
385923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3860 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3861 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3862 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3863 "[x.x.x.x]".
3864
7d468ab8
PH
386524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3866 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3867 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3868
386925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3870 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3871 wake it up if nothing else does.
3872
62c0818f
PH
387326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3874 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3875 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3876 end up negative.
3877
26034054
PH
387827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3879 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3880
af66f652
PH
388128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3882
90af77f4
PH
388329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3884 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3885 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3886 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3887 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3888 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3889 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3890 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3891
d8ef3577
PH
389230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3893 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3894 than one IP address.
3895
5cb8cbc6
PH
389631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3897 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3898 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3899 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3900
14702f5b
PH
390132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3902 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3903 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3904 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3905 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3906 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3907
063b1e99
PH
390833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3909 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3910 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3911 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3912
652e1b65
PH
391334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3914 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3915 respected.
3916
6f0c9a4f
PH
391735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3918 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3919 $sender_host_address.
3920
33397d19
PH
392136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3922 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3923 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3924 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3925 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3926 very small.
3927
7bb56e1f
PH
392837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3929
3930 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3931 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3932
ea3bc19b
PH
3933 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3934 just the host names, not the priorities.
3935
3936 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3937 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3938 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3939
ea3bc19b 3940 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3941 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3942
0bcb2a0e
PH
394338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3944 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3945 domain.
3946
2ac0e484
PH
394739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3948
4e1fde53
PH
394940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3950 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3951
de365ded
PH
395241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3953 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3954 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3955
f05da2e8
PH
395642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3957
d6453af2
PH
395843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3959
f7b63901
PH
396044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3961
396245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3963 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3964 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3965 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3966 because the tests only now provoked it.
3967
a444213a
PH
396846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3969 (this can affect the format of dates).
3970
0ec020ea
PH
397147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3972 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3973 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3974 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3975
b1206957
PH
397648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3977
397849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3979 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3980 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3981 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3982
26dd5a95
PH
398350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3984 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3985 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3986
343b2385
PH
398751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3988 autoreply.
3989
1c5466b9
PH
399052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3991 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3992 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3993 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3994 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3995 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3996 is going on).
3997
55ee9ee3
PH
399853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3999 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4000 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4001 the line.
4002
d38f8232
PH
400354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4004 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4005 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4006
4007 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4008 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4009 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4010 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4011 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4012 so I produce this patch..."
4013
3295e65b
PH
4014 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4015 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4016 is not defined.
4017
7102e136
PH
401855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4019 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4020 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4021 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4022 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4023
3ca0ba97
PH
402456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4025
c2bcbe20
PH
402657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4027 long debug lines gets shown.
4028
18ce445d
PH
402958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4030 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4031
1f5b4c3d
PH
403259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4033
4034 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4035 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4036 of $primary_hostname.
4037
b975ba52
PH
403860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4039 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4040 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4041 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4042 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4043 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4044 by change 4.50/55 above.
4045
4046 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4047 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4048 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4049 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4050 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4051 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4052 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4053
405461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4055 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4056 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4057 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4058
17ffcae7
PH
405962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4060 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4061
d95f9fdb
PH
406263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4063 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4064 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4065 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4066 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4067
86b8287f
PH
406864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4069 This has been fixed.
4070
60dc5e56
PH
407165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4072 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4073 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4074 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4075 the caching.)
4076
533244af
PH
407766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4078
a5a28604
PH
407967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4080 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4081 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4082 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4083
7e634d24
PH
408468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4085 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4086
3e11c26b
PH
408769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4088 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4089 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4090
6729cf78
PH
409170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4092 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4093 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4094 message there.
4095
00f00ca5
PH
409671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4097 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4098 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4099
c9bdd01c
PH
410072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4101 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4102 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4103 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4104
d43194df
PH
410573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4106 during host lookups.
4107
fe5b5d0b
PH
410874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4109 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4110
4111 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4112
76a2d7ba
PH
411375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4114 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4115 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4116 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4117 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4118 background.
4119
412076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4121 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4122
04f7d5b9
PH
412377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4124 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4125 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4126
bc60667e
PH
412778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4128
bb6e88ff
PH
412979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4130 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4131 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4132 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4133 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4134 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4135 process earlier.
4136
1e70f85b
PH
413780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4138 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4139 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4140 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4141 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4142
414381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4144 tables).
4145
4e01f9d6
PH
414682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4147
1ee1cef2
PH
414883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4149 "vacation" handling.
4150
6e2b4ccc
PH
415184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4152 OS variants using glibc.
4153
8e669ac1
PH
415485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4155
495ae4b0 4156
bbe902f0
PH
4157----------------------------------------------------
4158See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4159----------------------------------------------------
4160
4161
4162Exim version 4.44
4163-----------------
4164
4165 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4166 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4167 transport
4168
4169 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4170 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4171 place.
4172
4173 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4174 filter fails to execute.
4175
4176 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4177 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4178 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4179 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4180 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4181
4182 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4183 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4184 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4185 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4186
4187 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4188 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4189 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4190 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4191 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4192
4193 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4194
4195 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4196 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4197 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4198 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4199
4200 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4201 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4202 sender verification.
4203
420410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4205 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4206
420711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4208 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4209
421012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4211 ignore_target_hosts.
4212
421313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4214 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4215 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4216 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4217 "[x.x.x.x]".
4218
421914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4220 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4221 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4222
422315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4224 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4225 wake it up if nothing else does.
4226
422716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4228 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4229 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4230 end up negative.
4231
423217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4233 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4234
ea3a6f44 423518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4236
423719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4238 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4239 empty pattern.
4240
424120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4242 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4243 one IP address.
4244
ea3a6f44
NM
424521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4246 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4247 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4248 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4249 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4250 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4251
ea3a6f44
NM
425222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4253 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4254 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4255
425623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4257 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4258 $sender_host_address.
4259
426024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4261
ea3a6f44
NM
426225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4263 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4264 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4265
426626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4267 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4268
ea3a6f44
NM
426927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4270 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4271
ea3a6f44
NM
427228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4273 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4274 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4275 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4276
427729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4278 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4279 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4280
ea3a6f44
NM
428130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4282 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4283 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4284 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4285
ea3a6f44
NM
428631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4287 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4288 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4289
ea3a6f44
NM
429031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4291 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4292
ea3a6f44
NM
429332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4294 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4295 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4296 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4297 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4298 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4299 is going on).
bbe902f0 4300
ea3a6f44
NM
430133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4302 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4303 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4304 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4305 CAN-2005-0021
4306
ea3a6f44
NM
430734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4308 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4309 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4310 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4311 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4312 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4313 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4314
4315 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4316 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4317 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4318 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4319 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4320 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4321 CAN-2005-0021
4322
ea3a6f44
NM
432335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4324 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4325 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4326 CAN-2005-0022
4327
ea3a6f44
NM
432836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4329 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4330 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4331 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4332 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4333
ea3a6f44
NM
433437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4335 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4336 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4337 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4338 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4339
ea3a6f44
NM
434038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4341 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4342 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4343 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4344 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4345
4346
495ae4b0
PH
4347Exim version 4.43
4348-----------------
4349
4350 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4351 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4352 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4353 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4354 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4355 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4356 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4357
4358 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4359 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4360 the delivery.
4361
4362 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4363
4364 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4365
4366 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4367 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4368 to local_scan().
4369
4370 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4371 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4372 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4373 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4374 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4375
4376 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4377 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4378
4379 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4380
4381 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4382
438310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4384 header_sender only.
4385
438611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4387 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4388
438912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4390 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4391 affecting debugging statements).
4392
439313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4394
439514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4396 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4397 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4398 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4399 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4400 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4401 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4402 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4403 after the received time, and all would be well.
4404
440515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4406 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4407 condition in an expansion string.
4408
440916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4410
441117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4412 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4413 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4414 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4415 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4416 job under whatever limits there are.
4417
441818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4419
442019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4421 space).
4422
442320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4424 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4425 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4426 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4427 return path is set.
4428
442921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4430 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4431 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4432 binary data in such strings.
4433
443422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4435
443623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4437 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4438 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4439 failure, which is pointless.
4440
444124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4442
444325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4444
444526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4446 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4447 Sender: header lines.
4448
444927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4450 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4451 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4452
445328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4454 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4455 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4456 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4457 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4458 happens.
4459
446029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4461 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4462 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4463 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4464 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4465
446630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4467 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4468 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4469 1024.
4470
447131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4472 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4473
447432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4475 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4476
447733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4478
447932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4480
448133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4482
448334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4484 syntax error.
4485
448635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4487
448836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4489
449037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4491 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4492 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4493 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4494
449538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4496 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4497
4498
4499Exim version 4.42
4500-----------------
4501
4502 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4503 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4504 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4505 it was not quoted.
4506 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4507 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4508 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4509 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4510 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4511 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4512
4513 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4514 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4515 verification failure".
4516
4517 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4518 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4519 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4520 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4521
4522 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4523 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4524 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4525 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4526 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4527 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4528 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4529 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4530 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4531 treated as a timeout.
4532
4533 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4534 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4535 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4536 not set for Exim filters).
4537
4538 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4539 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4540 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4541
4542 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4543
4544 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4545 try to make them clearer.
4546
4547 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4548 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4549
4550 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4551
4552 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4553
455410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4555 only the Cygwin environment.
4556
455711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4558 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4559 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4560 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4561 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4562
456312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4564 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4565 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4566 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4567 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4568 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4569 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4570
457113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4572 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4573
457414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4575
4576 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4577 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4578 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4579
4580 To: susanne@some.where
4581
4582 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4583 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4584 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4585 of addresses in From: header lines).
4586
4587 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4588 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4589 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4590
4591 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4592 treated as non-personal.
4593
4594 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4595 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4596
459715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4598
459916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4600
460117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4602 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4603 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4604
460518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4606 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4607
460819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4609 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4610 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4611 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4612 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4613 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4614
461520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4616 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4617 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4618 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4619 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4620 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4621 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4622 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4623
4624 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4625
462621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4627 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4628
462922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4630 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4631 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4632
463323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4634 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4635
463624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4637 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4638 rather than long int.
4639
464025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4641
464226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4643
4644
4645Exim version 4.41
4646-----------------
4647
4648 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4649 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4650 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4651 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4652 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4653 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4654
4655
4656Exim version 4.40
4657-----------------
4658
4659 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4660 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4661
4662 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4663 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4664 socklen_t is defined.
4665
4666 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4667 always exist.
4668
4669 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4670 configured.
4671
4672 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4673 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4674 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4675 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4676 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4677
4678 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4679 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4680 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4681 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4682
4683 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4684 of flapping under certain conditions.
4685
4686 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4687 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4688 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4689
4690 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4691
469210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4693
469411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4695 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4696 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4697 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4698
469912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4700 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4701 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4702 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4703 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4704 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4705 preserved with the message after it was received.
4706
470713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4708 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4709 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4710 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4711 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4712 test suite worked just fine.
4713
471414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4715 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4716 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4717
471815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4719 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4720 string.
4721
472216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4723 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4724 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4725 does not fully solve it.
4726
472717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4728 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4729 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4730 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4731 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4732
473318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4734 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4735 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4736
473719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4738 string, for example:
4739
4740 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4741
4742 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4743 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4744 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4745 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4746 the routers could not see them.
4747
474820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4749 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4750
475121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4752 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4753 output).
4754
475522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4756 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4757 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4758 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4759 that needed quoting.
4760
476123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4762 was not being matched caselessly.
4763
476424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4765 backslashes.
4766
476725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4768 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4769 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4770 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4771 when use_sender is false.
4772
477326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4774
477527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4776
477728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4778
477929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4780 the configuration file.
4781
478230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4783 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4784
478531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4786
478732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4788 bytes in the message body.
4789
479033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4791 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4792 delivery.
4793
479434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4795
479635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4797
479836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4799 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4800 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4801 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4802 another IP address.
4803
4804
4805Exim version 4.34
4806-----------------
4807
4808 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4809 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4810
4811 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4812 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4813 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4814 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4815 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4816
4817 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4818 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4819
4820 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4821 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4822 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4823
4824 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4825 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4826 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4827
4828 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4829 for routers.
4830
4831 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4832 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4833 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4834 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4835 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4836 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4837 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4838
4839
4840Exim version 4.33
4841-----------------
4842
4843 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4844 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4845 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4846 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4847 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4848 default (and expected) setting.
4849
4850 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4851 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4852 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4853 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4854
4855 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4856 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4857
4858 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4859 in domain lists.
4860
4861 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4862 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4863 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4864 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4865 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4866 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4867
4868 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4869 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4870 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4871
4872 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4873 part (NOT match_host).
4874
4875 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4876
4877 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4878 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4879 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4880 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4881 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4882 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4883 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4884 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4885 the same named file.
4886
488710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4888 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4889 when Exim is built.
4890
489111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4892 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4893 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4894 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4895 a host name.
4896
489712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4898 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4899 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4900
490113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4902
490314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4904
490515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4906
490716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4908 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4909
491017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4911 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4912 before starting the TLS session.
4913
491418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4915
491619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4917 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4918
491920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4920 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4921 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4922 colon in the middle).
4923
4924
4925Exim version 4.32
4926-----------------
4927
4928 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4929 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4930 multiple configurations are in use.
4931
4932 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4933 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4934 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4935 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4936 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4937 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4938
4939 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4940 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4941
4942 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4943 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4944 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4945
4946 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4947 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4948 occurs.
4949
4950 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4951 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4952
4953 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4954
4955 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4956 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4957
4958 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4959
4960 -prval:sval
4961
4962 is equivalent to
4963
4964 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4965
4966 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4967 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4968 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4969 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4970 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4971
497210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4973 Exim's behaviour:
4974
4975 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4976 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4977 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4978 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4979 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4980 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4981
4982 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4983 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4984 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4985 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4986 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4987 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4988 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4989 string.
4990
4991 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4992 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4993 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4994 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4995 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4996
499711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4998
499912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5000 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5001 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5002
500313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5004
500514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5006 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5007 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5008 information.
5009
501015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5011 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5012
501316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5014 Three changes have been made:
5015
5016 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5017 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5018 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5019 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5020 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5021
5022 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5023 been restored.
5024
5025 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5026 the modified behaviour.
5027
5028
5029Exim version 4.31
5030-----------------
5031
5032 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5033 Larry Rosenman.
5034
5035 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5036 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5037
5038 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5039 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5040 try to track down a specific problem.
5041
5042 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5043 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5044 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5045
5046 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5047 warning.
5048
5049 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5050 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5051 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5052 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5053 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5054 some earlier ones do not.
5055
5056 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5057
5058 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5059 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5060 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5061 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5062 address literals are enabled, of course).
5063
5064 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5065
506610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5067 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5068 by a command such as
5069
5070 exim -f "" ...
5071
5072 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5073
507411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5075
507612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5077 remained set. It is now erased.
5078
507913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5080 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5081
508214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5083 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5084 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5085 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5086 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5087 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5088 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5089 appropriate error code.
5090
509115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5092 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5093 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5094 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5095 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5096 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5097
509816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5099 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5100 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5101
510217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5103 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5104 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5105 terminate the header.
5106
510718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5108 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5109 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5110
511119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5112 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5113 (4.30/29). In particular:
5114
5115 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5116 imposed.
5117
5118 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5119 to write a maildirsize file.
5120
5121 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5122 the transport, the new value overrides.
5123
5124 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5125 count.
5126
512720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5128 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5129 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5130 space or a tab.
5131
513221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5133 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5134 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5135 the fallback hosts.
5136
513722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5138 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5139 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5140
514123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5142 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5143 using a union.
5144
514524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5146 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5147 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5148
514925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5150
515126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5152
515327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5154
515528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5156 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5157 become corrupted.
5158
515929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5160 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5161 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5162 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5163 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5164 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5165 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5166 too great.
5167
516830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5169 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5170 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5171 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5172 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5173 incorrectly.
5174
517531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5176 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5177 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5178 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5179 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5180 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5181 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5182 cached value only when the same options are set.
5183
518432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5185
518633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5187 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5188 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5189 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5190 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5191
519234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5193 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5194 it is clearly obsolete.
5195
519635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5197 transport.
5198
519936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5200 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5201 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5202 times.
5203
520437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5205 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5206 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5207 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5208 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5209
521038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5211 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5212 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5213 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5214
521539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5216
5217 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5218
5219 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5220 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5221 2^31.
5222
522340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5224 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5225 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5226 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5227 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5228 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5229 $localpart_data.
5230
523141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5232 with the -f command-line option.
5233
523442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5235 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5236 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5237 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5238 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5239 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5240
524143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5242 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5243 line.
5244
524544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5246 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5247 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5248 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5249 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5250 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5251 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5252 buffer is too small.
5253
525445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5255 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5256
525746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5258 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5259 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5260 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5261 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5262 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5263 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5264 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5265 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5266
526747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5268 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5269 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5270
527148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5272 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5273 ACL").
5274
527549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5276 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5277 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5278 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5279 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5280
528150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5282 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5283 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5284 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5285 is set.
5286
528751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5288
528952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5290
529153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5292 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5293
529454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5295 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5296 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5297
529855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5299 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5300 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5301 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5302 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5303
530456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5305 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5306 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5307 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5308 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5309 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5310 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5311
531257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5313 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5314 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5315 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5316 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5317 the test of how many are available.
5318
531958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5320 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5321 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5322 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5323 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5324 new message is started.
5325
532659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5327 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5328
532960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5330 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5331
533261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5333 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5334 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5335 is no long logged.
5336
533762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5338 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5339 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5340 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5341 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5342 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5343 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5344
534563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5346 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5347 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5348 interpreted as octal.
5349
535064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5351 setting.
5352
535365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5354 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5355 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5356 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5357 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5358 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5359
536066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5361 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5362 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5363 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5364
5365 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5366 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5367 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5368 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5369
5370 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5371 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5372 is a bug fix.
5373
5374 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5375 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5376
537767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5378
537968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5380 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5381 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5382 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5383
538469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5385 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5386 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5387 supplied", which is not helpful.
5388
538970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5390 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5391 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5392
539371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5394 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5395 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5396 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5397 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5398 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5399 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5400 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5401
540272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5403 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5404 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5405 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5406 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5407
540873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5409 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5410 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5411 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5412 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5413 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5414
541574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5416 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5417 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5418
541975. Added write_rejectlog option.
5420
542176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5422 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5423 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5424 variables.
5425
542677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5427
542878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5429 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5430 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5431 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5432 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5433 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5434 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5435 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5436
543779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5438 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5439 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5440 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5441 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5442
544380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5444 Haardt.
5445
544681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5447 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5448 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5449 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5450 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5451 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5452 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5453 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5454 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5455
5456
5457Exim version 4.30
5458-----------------
5459
5460 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5461 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5462 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5463
5464 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5465 fixed.
5466
5467 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5468 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5469 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5470
5471 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5472 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5473 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5474 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5475 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5476 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5477
5478 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5479 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5480 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5481 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5482 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5483 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5484 the Exim test suite.
5485
5486 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5487 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5488 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5489 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5490
5491 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5492 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5493 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5494 specify it in this variable.
5495
5496 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5497 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5498 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5499 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5500
5501 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5502 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5503 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5504 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5505
5506 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5507 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5508 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5509 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5510 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5511
5512 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5513
551410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5515 they are logged.
5516
551711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5518 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5519 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5520 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5521 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5522
552312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5524 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5525
552613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5527 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5528 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5529 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5530 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5531
553214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5533 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5534
553515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5536 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5537 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5538
553916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5540 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5541
554217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5543 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5544
554518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5546 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5547 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5548
554919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5550 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5551
555220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5553 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5554 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5555 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5556
555721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5558
555922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5560 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5561 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5562 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5563
556423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5565
556624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5567 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5568
556925. Added .include_if_exists.
5570
557126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5572 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5573 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5574 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5575 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5576 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5577
557827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5579
558028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5581 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5582 this.
5583
558429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5585
558630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5587 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5588
5589 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5590 550 Sender verify failed
5591
5592 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5593 the final line of the response.
5594
559531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5596 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5597 all other user lookups.
5598
559932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5600 delivery time.
5601
560233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5603 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5604 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5605 result into an int without checking.
5606
560734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5608 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5609 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5610
561135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5612 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5613 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5614 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5615
561636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5617 correctly.
5618
561937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5620 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5621
562238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5623 to the empty sender.
5624
562539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5626 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5627 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5628 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5629 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5630 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5631 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5632 panic log.
5633
563440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5635 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5636 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5637 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5638 used.
5639
564041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5641 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5642
564342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5644 timestamps.
5645
564643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5647 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5648
564944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5650
565145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5652 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5653 logs.
5654
565546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5656 as soon as it is encountered.
5657
565847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5659
566048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5661 rewritten to "<>".
5662
566349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5664 recognizes a tab character.
5665
566650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5667 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5668 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5669 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5670
567151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5672
567352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5674 crash.
5675
567653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5677
567854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5679
568055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5681 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5682 2822.
5683
568456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5685 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5686 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5687 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5688 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5689
569057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5691 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5692
569358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5694 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5695 list (.included file names were always shown).
5696
569759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5698 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5699 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5700 root at that time.
5701
570260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5703 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5704
570561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5706
570762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5708
570963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5710
571164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5712 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5713 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5714 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5715 failures to open the logs.
5716
571765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5718 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5719 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5720 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5721 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5722 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5723 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5724
5725
5726Exim version 4.24
5727-----------------
5728
5729 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5730 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5731 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5732 change 4.23/1.
5733
5734 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5735 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5736 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5737
5738 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5739 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5740 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5741
5742 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5743 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5744 causing some misleading effects.
5745
5746 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5747 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5748 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5749
5750 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5751 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5752 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5753 queue-runner function directly.
5754
5755
5756Exim version 4.23
5757-----------------
5758
5759 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5760 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5761
5762 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5763 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5764 was always written to the default place.
5765
5766 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5767 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5768 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5769
5770 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5771
5772 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5773
5774 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5775 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5776 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5777
5778 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5779 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5780 must start.
5781
5782 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5783 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5784 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5785
5786 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5787 command line option is disabled.
5788
5789 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5790 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5791
5792 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5793
5794 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5795
5796 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5797 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5798
579910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5800
580111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5802 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5803 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5804 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5805 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5806 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5807
580812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5809 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5810 timeout.
5811
581213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5813 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5814
581514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5816 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5817
581815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5819 received was valid base64.
5820
582116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5822 name of the variable that was being set.
5823
582417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5825
582618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5827 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5828 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5829 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5830 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5831 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5832
583319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5834
583520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5836 nor realm was specified.
5837
583821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5839 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5840 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5841 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5842
584322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5844 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5845 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5846
584723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5848 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5849 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5850
585124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5852 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5853 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5854 some systems use these upper case variants.
5855
585625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5857 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5858 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5859 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5860
586126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5862
586327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5864 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5865
586628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5867 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5868 expansion variable.
5869
587029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5871
587230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5873 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5874 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5875 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5876
587731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5878 using it.
5879
588032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5881 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5882 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5883
588433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5885 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5886
588734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5888 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5889 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5890 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5891
589235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5893 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5894 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5895
589636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5897
589837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5899 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5900 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5901 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5902 aborted.
5903
590438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5905 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5906 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5907
590839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5909
591040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5911 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5912
591341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5914 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5915
591642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5917 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5918 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5919 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5920 when emails are that large.
5921
5922
5923
5924Exim version 4.22
5925-----------------
5926
5927 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5928 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5929
5930 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5931 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5932 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5933
5934 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5935 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5936 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5937
5938 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5939 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5940 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5941 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5942 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5943
5944 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5945 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5946 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5947 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5948 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5949 ever.
5950
5951 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5952 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5953 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5954 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5955 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5956 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5957 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5958 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5959 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5960 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5961 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5962 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5963 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5964 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5965
5966 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5967 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5968 parameterised it.
5969
5970 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5971 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5972 error should be diagnosed.
5973
5974 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5975 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5976 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5977 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5978 appeared instead of "NULL".
5979
598010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5981 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5982 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5983 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5984 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5985 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5986 proceeds).
5987
5988 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5989 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5990 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5991
5992
5993Exim version 4.21
5994-----------------
5995
5996 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5997 or receiver verification errors.
5998
5999 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6000 name.
6001
6002 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6003 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6004 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6005 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6006
6007 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6008 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6009 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6010 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6011 shouldn't happen again.
6012
6013 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6014 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6015 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6016
6017 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6018 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6019
6020 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6021
6022 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6023 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6024
6025 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6026 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6027 RFC.
6028
602910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6030 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6031 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6032
603311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6034 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6035 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6036 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6037
603812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6039 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6040 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6041 to define what should happen).
6042
604313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6044 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6045 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6046
604714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6048
604915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6050
605116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6052 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6053
605417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6055 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6056 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6057 structure in all cases.
6058
6059 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6060 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6061 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6062 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6063
606418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6065 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6066 domain name.
6067
606819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6069 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6070
607120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6072 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6073
607421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6075 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6076 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6077
607822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6079 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6080 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6081
608223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6083 the book and for uniformity.
6084
608524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6086
608725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6088 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6089 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6090 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6091 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6092 non-existent command as the problem.
6093
609426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6095 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6096 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6097
609827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6099
610028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6101 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6102 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6103
610429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6105 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6106 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6107 timestamps using strftime().
6108
610930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6110 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6111
611232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6113 transport-time rewrites.
6114
611533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6116 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6117 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6118 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6119
612034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6121 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6122
612335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6124 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6125 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6126 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6127 comma and a space.
6128
612936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6130 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6131 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6132 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6133 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6134 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6135 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6136
613737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6138 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6139 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6140 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6141 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6142
614338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6144 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6145 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6146 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6147 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6148 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6149 remaining text gets split now.
6150
615139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6152 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6153 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6154 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6155
615640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6157 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6158 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6159 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6160 $return_path.
6161
616241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6163 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6164 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6165 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6166 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6167 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6168 passed through if needed.
6169
617042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6171 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6172 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6173 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6174 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6175 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6176
617743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6178 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6179 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6180 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6181 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6182
618344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6184 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6185 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6186 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6187 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6188
618945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6190 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6191 noticed.
6192
619346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6194 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6195 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6196 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6197 mayhem of various kinds.
6198
619947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6200 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6201 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6202 the right test for positive values.
6203
620448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6205 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6206 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6207 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6208 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6209 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6210 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6211 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6212 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6213 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6214 envelope.
6215
621649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6217 module.
6218
621950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6220 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6221 forbidding it.
6222
622351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6224 the existing equality matching.
6225
622652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6227 dealing with inode numbers.
6228
622953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6230 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6231 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6232
623354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6234 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6235 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6236 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6237 local_scan().
6238
623955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6240 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6241 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6242 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6243 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6244 relay addresses has also been removed.
6245
624656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6247
624857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6249 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6250 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6251
625258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6253 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6254 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6255 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6256 processing applies to CR:
6257
6258 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6259 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6260
6261 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6262 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6263 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6264 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6265
626659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6267 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6268 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6269
627060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6271 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6272 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6273 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6274 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6275 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6276 arisen.
6277
627861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6279 program routers.
6280
628162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6282 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6283 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6284 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6285 adds:
6286
6287 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6288
6289 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6290
6291 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6292
629363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6294 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6295 not considered personal.
6296
629764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6298
629965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6300
630166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6302
630367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6304 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6305 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6306 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6307 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6308 header lines, and spool format errors.
6309
631068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6311 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6312 for more flexibility.
6313
631469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6315 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6316 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6317
631870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6319 Sabourenkov.
6320
632171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6322 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6323 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6324 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6325 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6326 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6327 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6328 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6329 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6330
633172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6332 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6333 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6334 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6335 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6336 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6337 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6338
633973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6340 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6341 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6342
634374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6344 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6345 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6346 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6347 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6348 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6349 instead of killing the process with assert().
6350
635175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6352 than Unicode encoding.
6353
635476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6355 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6356 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6357 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6358
635977. Added process_log_path.
6360
636178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6362 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6363
636479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6365 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6366
636780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6368 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6369 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6370
637181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6372 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6373 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6374 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6375 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6376 were applied:
6377
6378 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6379 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6380 as invalid.
6381
638282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6383 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6384 they will be used during message reception.
6385
6386
6387Exim version 4.20
6388-----------------
6389
6390The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6391
6392****