TLS: rework error logging to pass more string back to caller for logging
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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9427e879 11JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 12 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 13
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14JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
15
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16PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
17 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
18
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19JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
20 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
23 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
24 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
25 before acknowledging the chunk.
26
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27PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
28 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
29 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
30
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31JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
32 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
33 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
34 should.
35
36JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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37 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
38 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 40JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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41 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
42
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43JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
44 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
45 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
46 body hash calculated value.
47
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48JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
49 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
50 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
51
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52JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
53
54JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
55 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
56
57JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
58 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
59 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
60
61JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
62 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
63 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
64 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
65 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
66 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
67
68JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
69 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
70 past that check, despite the cost.
71
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72JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
73 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
74 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
75
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76PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
77 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
78 TLS library to consume.
79
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80PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
81
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82PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
83
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84JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
85 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
86 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
87 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
88 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
89 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
90 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
91
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92JH/17 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
93 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
94 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
95 pairs of long lines into single ones.
96
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101JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
102 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 103
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104JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
105 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
106 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
107
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108JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
109 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
110 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
111 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
112 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
113 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
114 if one fails this test.
115 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
116 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
117
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118JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
119 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
120
23bb6982 121JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 122 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 123
0bd1b1ed 124JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 125 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 126
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127JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
128 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
129
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130JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
131 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
132
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133JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
134
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135JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
136 certificate).
137
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138JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
139 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
140 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
141 connection after a verify cache hit.
142 Do not update it with the verify result either.
143
144JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
145 when routing results in more than one destination address.
146
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147JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
148 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
149 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
150 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
151 when the cutthrough connection is made).
152
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153JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
154 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
155
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156JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
157 Previously they were not counted.
158
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159JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
160 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
161 that needed the lookup.
162
4c04137d 163JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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164 distinguished as "(=".
165
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166JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
167 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
168
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169JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
170
171JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
172 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 173
4c04137d 174JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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175 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
176
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177JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
178 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
179 compatible.
180
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181JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
182 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
183 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
184 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
185
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186JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
187
f59aaaaa 188JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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189 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
190 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 191
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192JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
193 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
194 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
195 be lost.
196
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197JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
198 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
199 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
200 itself :(
201
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202JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
203 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
204 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
205
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206JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
207 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
208 options.
209
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210JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
211
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212PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
213 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
214
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215PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
216 are not in the system include path.
217
ad7fc6eb 218JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 219 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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220 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
221 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 222
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223JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
224 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
225 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
226
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227JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
228
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229HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
230 an incoming connection.
231
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232HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
233 to rspamd.
234
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235HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
236 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 237
87cb4a16 238JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 239 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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240
241
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242Exim version 4.87
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245JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
246 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
247 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
248 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 249
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250TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
251 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
252
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253TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
254 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
255 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
256 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
257 outgoing I= field.
258
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259JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
260 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
261 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
262 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
263 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
264 check on the next write.
265
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266HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
267 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
268 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
269 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
270 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
271
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272JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
273 mime_regex ACL conditions.
274
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275JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
276 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
277 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
278
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279JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
280 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
281 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
282 an authenticate fail is not an error.
283
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284HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
285 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
286
4c04137d 287JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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288 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
289
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290JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
291 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
292 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
293 distinct.
294
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295JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
296
297JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
298
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299JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
300
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301JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
302 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
303
98b98887 304JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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305 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
306
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307JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
308
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309JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
310 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
311
312JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
313
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314JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
315 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
316
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317JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
318
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319JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
320 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 321 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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322 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
323 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
324 they will retry in-clear.
325 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
326 at installation time.
327
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328HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
329 with the $config_file variable.
330
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331JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
332 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
333 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
334 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 335 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 336
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337GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
338 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
339 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
340 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
341 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
342
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343JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
344
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345JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
346 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
347 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
348 list order is no longer honoured.
349
4c04137d 350JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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351 for DKIM processing.
352
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353JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
354 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 355
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356JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
357 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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358 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
359 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 360
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361JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
362 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
363
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364JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
365 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
366
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367JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
368 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
369
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370JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
371
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372JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
373 cached by the daemon.
374
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375JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
376 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
377
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378JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
379 keys are given for lookup.
380
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381JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
382 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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383 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
384 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 385
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386JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
387 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
388 server-side so match that on older versions.
389
07c73177 390JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 391 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 392 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 393
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394JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
395 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
396
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397JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
398 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
399 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 400 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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401 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
402 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
403 initial truncated version.
404
ab9152ff 405JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 406
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407JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
408
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409JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
410 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
411
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412JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
413
bc3c7bb7 414HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 415
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416JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
417 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
418 induced overflows.
419
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420JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
421 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
422 stage.
423
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424JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
425 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
426
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427JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
428 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
429 former class.
430
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431JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
432 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
433 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
434
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435JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
436 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
437 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
438 extraction. Accept either.
439
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444JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
445 expanded.
446
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447JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
448
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449JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
450 it.
451
01a4a5c5 452JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 453 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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454 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
455 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
456
cb1d7830 457JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 458 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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459 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
460
610ff438 461JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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462 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
463 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
464 TLS connections
610ff438 465
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466JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
467 sites use this now.
468
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469JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
470 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
471 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
472 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
473 have a dsn_lasthop option.
474
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475JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
476 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 477 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 478
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479JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
480
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481JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
482 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
483
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484JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
485 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
486
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487JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
488 /defer_ok option.
489
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490JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
491 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
492
fd4d8871 493JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 494 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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495 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
496
497JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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498 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
499 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 500
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501JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
502 timeout value per server.
503
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504JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
505 now have the list separator specified.
506
8a512ed5 507JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 508 option values.
8a512ed5 509
82c0c8ea 510JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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511 under OpenSSL.
512
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513JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
514
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515JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
516 rather than the verbs used.
517
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518JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
519 from 255 to 1024 chars.
520
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521JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
522
cfab9d68 523HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 524 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 525
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526JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
527 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
528
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529HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
530 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
531
4c04137d 532JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 533
d2a2c69b
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534JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
535
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536JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
537 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 538 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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539 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
540
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541JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
542
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543JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
544 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
545
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546JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
547 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
548
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549JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
550
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551JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
552
7137ca4b
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553JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
554
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555JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
556 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
557
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558JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
559 added for tls authenticator.
560
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561HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
562
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567TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
568 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
569 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
570 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
571 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
572 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
573 the script parsing/test process like normal.
574
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575TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
576 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
577 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
578 function when detected.
579
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580JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
581 cause callback expansion.
582
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583TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
584 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
585 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
586 instead of bool when processing it.
587
0f06b4f2 588JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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589 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
590
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591JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
592
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593JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
594
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595TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
596
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597TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
598 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 599
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600JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
601 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
602 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
603 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 604 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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605 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
606
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607JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
608 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
609 exceeded it.
610
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611JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
612 version 3.3.6 or later.
613
4c04137d 614JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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615 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
616 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 617 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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618 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
619 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
620 option is defined.
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622TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
623 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
624
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625JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
626 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
627 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
628 matches.
629
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630JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
631 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
632 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
633
ad4c5ff9
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634JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
635 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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636
637JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
638 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
639 syntax errors.
640
3394b36a 641JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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642
643JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
644 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
645
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646TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
647 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
648 tarball.
649
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650JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
651
4c04137d 652JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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653 Bug 1561.
654
655JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
656 output list separator was used.
657
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661TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
662 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
663 return.
1f0ebb98 664
a612424f 665JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 666 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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667
668JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
669
670TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 671 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 672
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676
677TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
678
679 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
680 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
681 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
682 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
683 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
684 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
685
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686TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
687 utilities have not been installed.
688
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689JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
690 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
691
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692TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
693 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
694
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695TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
696 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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697 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
698 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 699
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700JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
701
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702TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
703 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
704
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705PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
706 not dns_use_dnssec.
707
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708JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
709
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710TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
711 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
712 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
713
8ddef691 714TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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715 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
716 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
717 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
718 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 719 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 720
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721JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
722
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723JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
724 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
725
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726JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
727 failed delivery.
728
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729JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
730
511a6c14 731JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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732
733JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
734 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 735
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736JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
737 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
738
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739TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
740
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741JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
742
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743JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
744 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
745
746 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
747 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
748 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
749
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750TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
751 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
752 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
753 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 754
35aba663
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755JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
756
8c51eead 757JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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758 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
759 lookup).
8c51eead 760
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761TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
762 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
763 Schlichting.
35aba663 764
fd3b6a4a 765JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 766 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 767
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768TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
769 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
770
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771JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
772
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773TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
774 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
775 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
776
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777JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
778 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
779
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780JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
781 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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782 hosts_request_ocsp.
783
ed3bba5f 784JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 785 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 786 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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788JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
789
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790TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
791 Christian Aistleitner.
792
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793JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
794
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795TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
796 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
797
00bff6f6
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798JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
799 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
800
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801JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
802 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
803
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804TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
805 support and error reporting did not work properly.
806
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807TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
808 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
809
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810TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
811 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
812 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
813
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814JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
815
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816PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
817 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
818 Jasper Wallace.
819
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820JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
821
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822TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
823 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
824 CVE-2014-2972
825
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830PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
831
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832PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
833 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
834
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835PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
836 by GnuTLS.
837
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838PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
839 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
840 routines.
841
13363eba 842PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 843
66645890 844PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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845 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
846 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
847 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
848 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 849
a3fb9793 850PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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851 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
852 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
853 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 854 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 855 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 856
d27f98fe 857TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 858
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859TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
860
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861TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
862 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
863
ae0e32ee 864TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 865 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 866 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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867
868TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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870TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
871
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872TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
873 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
874
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875JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
876
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877JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
878
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879PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
880
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881NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
882 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 883
585121e2 884JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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886PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
887 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
888 function.
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890PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
891 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
892
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893JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
894 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
895 "acl = name arg..."
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897JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
898
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899JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
900
ea722490 901JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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902 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
903
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904JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
905 Bugzilla 884.
906
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907JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
908 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
909
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910JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
911 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
912
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913PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
914 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 915 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 916
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917JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
918 authenticators.
919
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920JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
921 for control.
922
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923PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
924
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925PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
926 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
927 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
928 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
929
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930TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
931
932 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
933 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
934 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
935 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
936 the retry rules.
937
938 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
939 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
940 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
941
942 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
943 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
944 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
945 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
946
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947 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
948 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
949 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
950 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
951 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
952 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
953 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
954
955 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
956 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
957
326cdc37
TF
958TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
959
960 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
961
962 Resent-From: f
963
964 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
965 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
966 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
967 username as equal to the username.
968
969 This change corrects that bug.
970
f62514b3
GF
971GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
972 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
973 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
974
eb505532
TF
975TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
976
14c7b357
PP
977PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
978 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
979 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
980 NULL dereference and crash.
981
94eaf700
PP
982JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
983
6f5a440a
PP
984PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
985 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
986 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
987
514ee161
SC
988SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
989
fd98a5c6
JH
990JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
991 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
992 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
993 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
994 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
995 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
996 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 997 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
998 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
999 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1000 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1001
035c7f1e
PP
1002PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1003 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1004
ff284120
PP
1005PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1006 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1007 Bugzilla 880.
1008
26e72755
PP
1009PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1010 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1011 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1012 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1013 an empty string is now equivalent.
1014
0fbd9bff
PP
1015PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1016 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1017 not performing validation itself.
1018
700d22f3
PP
1019PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1020 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1021
fcc8e047
JH
1022JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1023 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1024
4c04137d 1025TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1026
8c020188
PP
1027PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1028 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1029 other false fix of the same issue.
1030 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1031 Bugzilla 1363.
1032
d13cdd30
PP
1033PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1034 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1035
e2fbf4a2
PP
1036PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1037 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1038 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1039
f4c1088b
PP
1040PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1041 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1042 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1043
c5c2182f
PP
1044TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1045
73431ca9
JH
1046JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1047
2d07a215
TL
1048TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1049 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1050
a30a8861
TL
1051TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1052 Alexander Miroch.
1053
33382dd9
TL
1054TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1055 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1056 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1057 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1058 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1059
046172e6
TL
1060TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1061 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1062
581d7bee 1063TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1064 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1065 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1066
1067TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1068 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1069 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1070 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1071
237b2cf2
TL
1072TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1073
9fc5a352
TL
1074TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1075 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1076 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1077
b10e4ec2
TL
1078TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1079
e2cebd74
TL
1080TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1081 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1082 interaction.
1083
1084TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1085 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1086
2519e60d
TL
1087TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1088 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1089
e78e6ecf 1090
4263f395
PP
1091Exim version 4.80.1
1092-------------------
1093
1094PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1095 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1096 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1097
ea722490 1098
b1770b6e 1099Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1100-----------------
1101
1102PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1103 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1104 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1105
23c7e742
NM
1106NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1107
b322aac8
NM
1108NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1109 improved.
1110
4a891427
NM
1111NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1112
c1e794ba 1113PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1114
97753960
PP
1115PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1116
1117PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1118 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1119
df6303fa
PP
1120PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1121 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1122
7e6a8985
PP
1123PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1124 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1125
f1e05cc7 1126PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1127 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1128 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1129
4c287009
PP
1130PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1131
b98bb9ac
PP
1132PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1133 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1134
4a6a987a
PP
1135PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1136
c45dd180 1137PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1138
7db8d074
PP
1139PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1140 non-compliant senders.
1141 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1142
eae0036b 1143NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1144 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1145 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1146
dec5017e
PP
1147PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1148 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1149 in spool file corruption.
1150
c80c5570
PP
1151PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1152 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1153 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1154 "Got SSL error 2".
1155
076b11e2
PP
1156TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1157 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1158 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1159
5407bfff
JH
1160JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1161 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1162
9e45c72b
PP
1163JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1164
e74376d8
PP
1165PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1166 diagnostics.
1167 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1168
4c04137d 1169PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1170 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1171 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1172
7be682ca
PP
1173PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1174 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1175 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1176 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1177
ef840681
PP
1178PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1179 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1180
5bfb4cdf
PP
1181PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1182 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1183 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1184 resolver implementation change.
1185
c6e95d22
PP
1186PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1187 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1188
9cbad13b
PP
1189PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1190
9ee44efb
PP
1191PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1192
6a6084f8
PP
1193PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1194 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1195
12dd53c7
PP
1196PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1197 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1198
9e45c72b 1199JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1200 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1201
17c76198
PP
1202PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1203 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1204 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1205 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1206 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1207
53947857 1208PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1209
eae0036b 1210PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1211 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1212 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1213
9e45c72b 1214JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1215
7390e768
PP
1216PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1217 read-only, out of scope).
1218 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1219
08488c86
PP
1220PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1221 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1222 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1223 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1224
6475bd82
PP
1225PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1226
81f91683
PP
1227PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1228 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1229 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1230 real issues in debug logging.
1231
5779e6aa
PP
1232PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1233 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1234
3375e053
PP
1235PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1236 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1237 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1238
1239PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1240 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1241 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1242 problems.
3375e053 1243
9d26b8c0
PP
1244PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1245 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1246
57eb9e91 1247PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1248 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1249 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1250 needs to override this, it can.
1251
16880d1a
PP
1252PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1253 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1254 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1255
a799883d
PP
1256PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1257 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1258 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1259 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1260
3ecab157 1261PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1262
0599f9cf 1263
867fcbf5
PP
1264Exim version 4.77
1265-----------------
1266
1267PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1268 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1269
f1a29782
TF
1270TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1271
ab42bd23
TK
1272TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1273 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1274
0ca0cf52
TF
1275TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1276 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1277
921b12ca
TF
1278TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1279 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1280 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1281
1282 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1283 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1284 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1285 not safe for signals.
1286
1287 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1288 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1289 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1290 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1291 exiwhat.
1292
c99ce5c9
TF
1293TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1294
1295 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1296 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1297 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1298 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1299 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1300
1301 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1302 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1303 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1304 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1305 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1306 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1307
1308 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1309 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1310 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1311 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1312
1313 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1314 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1315 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1316 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1317
1318 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1319 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1320 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1321 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1322 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1323 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1324 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1325 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1326 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1327
1328 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1329 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1330 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1331 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1332
1333 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1334 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1335 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1336 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1337 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1338 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1339 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1340 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1341 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1342 details in the main documentation.
1343
3634fc25
TF
1344TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1345
792e8a19
TF
1346TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1347
5901f0ab
TF
1348TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1349 repository when doing development or release builds.
1350
7f2a2a43
PP
1351PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1352 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1353
061b7ebd
PP
1354PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1355 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1356 Bugzilla 97.
1357
e12f8c32
PP
1358PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1359
9e949f00 1360PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1361 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1362
1363PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1364 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1365
555ae6af 1366PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1367 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1368
1369PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1370 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1371
6f7fe114
PP
1372PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1373 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1374
c566dd90
PP
1375PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1376 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1377 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1378 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1379
d6cc7c78 1380PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1381 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1382 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1383
0d0e4455
PP
1384PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1385
3399bb60 1386PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1387
1388PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1389 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1390
0ca0cf52 1391
10906672
PP
1392Exim version 4.76
1393-----------------
1394
1395PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1396
754a0503
PP
1397PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1398 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1399
c0c7b2da
PP
1400PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1401
e97d1f08
PP
1402PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1403
084c1d8c
PP
1404PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1405 Bugzilla 1098.
1406
4e7ee012
PP
1407PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1408 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1409
c8d52a00
PP
1410TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1411 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1412
54e7ce4a
PP
1413PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1414 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1415
5ee6f336
PP
1416PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1417 Bugzilla 1104.
1418
c8d52a00 1419TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1420 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1421
1422TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1423 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1424 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1425 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1426
1427PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1428 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1429
10906672 1430
aa097c4c
NM
1431Exim version 4.75
1432-----------------
1433
4c04137d 1434NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1435 Bugzilla 1073
1436
7f3d9eff
TF
1437TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1438 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1439 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1440
159f52d2
TF
1441TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1442 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1443
0cc9542a
PP
1444PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1445 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1446 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1447
f7274286
PP
1448PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1449 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1450
7b797365
PP
1451PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1452 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1453
caacae52
NM
1454NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1455 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1456
09dcaba9
NM
1457NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1458 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1459
bc19a55b
PP
1460PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1461 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1462
bd4c9759
NM
1463NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1464 Fixes bug 943.
1465
b72aab72
PP
1466PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1467 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1468
2fe76745
PP
1469PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1470 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1471
76aa570c
PP
1472PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1473 SQL string expansion failure details.
1474 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1475
f1e5fef5
PP
1476PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1477 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1478
4d805ee9
PP
1479PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1480 extern declarations in function scope.
1481 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1482
cd59ab18
PP
1483PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1484 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1485 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1486 a kernel bug).
1487
332f5cf3
PP
1488PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1489 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1490
29cfeb94
PP
1491PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1492 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1493
660242ad
PP
1494PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1495 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1496
bc4bc4c5
PP
1497PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1498 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1499
2e64baa9
NM
1500NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1501 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1502 Dennis Davis.
1503
4c04137d 1504PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1505
6bac1a9a
PP
1506PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1507
552193f0
NM
1508NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1509 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1510
1b587e48
TF
1511TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1512 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1513
aa097c4c 1514
8c07b69f
TF
1515Exim version 4.74
1516-----------------
1517
1518TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1519 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1520
c0ea85ab
TF
1521TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1522 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1523
0761d44e
TF
1524TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1525
0a349494
PP
1526DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1527 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1528 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1529
1530PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1531 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1532 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1533
fea24b2e
PP
1534PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1535 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1536 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1537 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1538
6545de78
PP
1539PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1540 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1541 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1542 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1543
1670ef10
PP
1544PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1545 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1546 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1547 arbitrary files.
1548
c0886197
PP
1549PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1550 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1551
b7487bce
PP
1552PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1553 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1554 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1555 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1556 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1557
8c07b69f 1558
97fd1e48 1559Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1560-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1561
1562PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1563 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1564 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1565
6901c596
PP
1566PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1567 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1568
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1569JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1570
77bb000f
PP
1571PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1572
a29e5231
PP
1573PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1574
ec5a0394 1575PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1576
55c75993
PP
1577PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1578
453a6645 1579PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1580 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1581 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1582 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1583
8544e77a
PP
1584PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1585 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1586 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1587 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1588 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1589
83e029d5
PP
1590PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1591
ed7f7860
PP
1592PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1593
7d9f747b
PP
1594PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1595
4b2241d2
PP
1596PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1597
10385c15
PP
1598PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1599
dbc4b90d
PP
1600PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1601
532be449
PP
1602PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1603
6a8de854 1604PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1605 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1606 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1607
5dc43717
JJ
1608JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1609
1610JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1611 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1612
3346ab01
PP
1613PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1614 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1615
491fab4c
PP
1616PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1617 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1618 Notification from John Horne.
1619
13eb9497
PP
1620PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1621 compatible.
1622
1623PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1624 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1625 it normally works.
1626
7f36d675
DW
1627DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1628 access.
1629
c1d94452
DW
1630DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1631 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1632 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1633
e2f5dc15
DW
1634DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1635 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1636 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1637 configuration file.
1638
cd25e41d
DW
1639DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1640 option (effectively making it always true).
1641
261dc43e
DW
1642DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1643 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1644
fa32850b
DW
1645DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1646 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1647
79d4bc3d
PP
1648PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1649 run-time user, instead of root.
1650
43236f35 1651PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1652 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1653
fb08281f
DW
1654DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1655 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1656 arguments.
3346ab01 1657
74935b98
DW
1658DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1659 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1660 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1661
90b6341f
DW
1662DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1663
57730b52
ML
1664NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1665
66581d1e 1666
465e92cf
JJ
1667Exim version 4.72
1668-----------------
1669
453a6645
PP
1670JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1671 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1672 typos
465e92cf 1673
453a6645
PP
1674JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1675 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1676 (Finput)
edae0343 1677
9bd3e22c
NM
1678NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1679 Patch from Alain Williams
1680
bb576ff7
NM
1681NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1682
5a1a5845
NM
1683NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1684 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1685
981a9fad
NM
1686NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1687 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1688
7fc497ee
NM
1689NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1690
1a41defa
JJ
1691JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1692
a466095c 1693NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1694 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1695
94a6bd0b
NM
1696TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1697
1698TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1699
1700MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1701 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1702 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1703
c1b141a8
NM
1704NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1705 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1706
b26eacf1 1707NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1708 Patch by Simon Arlott
1709
179c5980 1710PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1711 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1712
9bd3e22c 1713
7c6d71af
NM
1714Exim version 4.71
1715-----------------
1716
7d9f747b 1717TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1718
f013fb92
NM
1719NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1720
0eb8eedd
NM
1721NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1722
663ee6d9
NM
1723NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1724
177ebd9b
NM
1725NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1726
7c6d71af 1727
210f147e
NM
1728Exim version 4.70
1729-----------------
1730
cdd3bb85 1731TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1732 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1733
1734TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1735 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1736 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1737
1738TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1739 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1740 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1741
1742TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1743 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1744
210f147e
NM
1745NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1746 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1747 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1748 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1749
deafd5b3
NM
1750NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1751 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1752 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1753
089793a4
TF
1754TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1755
5f16ca82
TF
1756TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1757
dae9d94e 1758NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1759 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1760
7d9f747b 1761NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1762
06864c44
TF
1763TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1764 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1765 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1766 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1767
65a7d8c3 1768NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1769 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1770
23510047 1771TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1772
7d9f747b 1773NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1774
7d8eec3a 1775NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1776 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1777
89dec7b6
TF
1778TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1779 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1780
a99de90c
TF
1781TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1782 that they are available at delivery time.
1783
e2803e40
TF
1784TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1785
7199e1ee
TF
1786TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1787 incoming_port log selectors.
1788
e276e04b
TF
1789TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1790 setting expands to an empty string.
1791
ce552449 1792NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1793 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1794
e765a0f1 1795NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1796 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1797
4f054c63 1798NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1799 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1800
7d9f747b
PP
1801NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1802 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1803
7d9f747b
PP
1804NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1805 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1806
b52bc06e 1807NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1808 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1809
447de4b0
NM
1810NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1811
4c69d561 1812NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1813 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1814
d5c39246 1815NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1816 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1817
0b23848a
TK
1818TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1819
8f3414a1 1820NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1821 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1822
fb6f955d
NM
1823NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1824
1825NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1826
7d9f747b
PP
1827NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1828 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1829
7d9f747b
PP
1830NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1831 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1832
7d9f747b
PP
1833NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1834 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1835
7d9f747b
PP
1836NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1837 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1838
7d9f747b
PP
1839NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1840 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1841
7d9f747b
PP
1842NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1843 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1844
7d9f747b
PP
1845NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1846 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1847
7d9f747b 1848NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1849 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1850
7d9f747b 1851NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1852
7d9f747b
PP
1853NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1854 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1855
7d9f747b 1856NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1857
7d9f747b 1858NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1859
7d9f747b 1860NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1861
7d9f747b 1862NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1863
17792b53 1864NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1865 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1866
7d9f747b
PP
1867NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1868 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1869
91576cec 1870NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1871 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1872
7d9f747b
PP
1873NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1874 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1875
7d9f747b 1876NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1877
7d9f747b 1878NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1879
7d9f747b 1880NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1881
7d9f747b 1882NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1883
deafd5b3 1884
47db1125
NM
1885Exim version 4.69
1886-----------------
1887
4b3504d0
TK
1888TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1889 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1890 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1891
1892 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1893 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1894 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1895 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1896 build errors in sieve.c.
1897
81ea09ca
NM
1898NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1899 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1900 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1901
f13cddcb
SC
1902SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1903
7d9f747b 1904NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1905
7d9f747b 1906NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1907
7d9f747b 1908NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1909
1910
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1913
1914PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1915
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1916PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1917 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1918 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1919 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1920 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1921 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1922 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1923 for iplsearch lookups.
1924
1925 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1926 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1927 previously such lookups could never work.
1928
4c04137d 1929 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
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1930 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1931 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1932
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1933TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1934 version.
1935
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1936MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1937 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1938 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1939 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1940 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1941 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1942
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1943TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1944 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1945
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1946MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1947 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1948 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1949 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1950 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1951 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1952
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1953PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1954 local_scan API.
1955
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1956PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1957
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1958PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1959 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1960 encrypted.
1961
1962PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1963 by clients under certain conditions.
1964
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1965PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1966 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1967
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1968PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1969
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1970PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1971 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1972
1973PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1974
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1975PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1976
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1977PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1978
64f2600a
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1979PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1980 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1981
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1982PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1983
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1984PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1985 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1986
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1987PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1988
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1989PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1990
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1991PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1992 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1993 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1994 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1995
ddea74fa 1996PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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1997 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1998 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1999
ddea74fa 2000PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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2001 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2002
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2003PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2004
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2005PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2006
19897d52
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2007PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2008
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2009PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2010 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2011 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2012
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2014Exim version 4.67
2015-----------------
2016
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2017MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2018 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2019 Jan Srzednicki.
2020
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2021PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2022 issue a MAIL command.
2023
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2024PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2025
2026 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2027
2028 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2029 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2030 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2031 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2032 item. This has been fixed.
2033
2034PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2035 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2036
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2037PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2038 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2039
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2040PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2041 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2042 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2043
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SC
2044SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2045
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PH
2046PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2047 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2048 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2049 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2050 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2051
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MH
2052MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2053 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2054 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2055
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PH
2056PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2057 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2058 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2059 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2060
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PH
2061PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2062
6bf342e1
PH
2063PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2064
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PH
2065PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2066 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2067 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2068 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2069 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2070
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PH
2071PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2072
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PH
2073PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2074 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2075 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2076 values).
2077
9c57cbc0
PH
2078PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2079
f3f065bb
PH
2080PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2081
047bdd8c
PH
2082PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2083
0ce9abe6
PH
2084PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2085
0e22dfd1
PH
2086PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2087
4c590bd1
PH
2088PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2089 no_callout_flush is set.
2090
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PH
2091PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2092 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2093 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2094 fixed.
2095
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2096PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2097
e28326d8 2098PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2099 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
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2100 other ACL rejections are.
2101
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PH
2102PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2103 with slight modification.
2104
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PH
2105PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2106 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2107
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PH
2108PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2109 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2110 connection.
2111
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PH
2112PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2113 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2114
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SC
2115SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2116
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PH
2117PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2118 expansion side effects.
2119
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PH
2120PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2121 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2122 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2123 be the same.
2124
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MH
2125MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2126 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2127 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2128
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2129PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2130 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2131 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2132 were accidentally chopped off.
2133
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2134PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2135 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2136 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2137 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2138 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2139 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2140 pipelining has not been advertised.
2141
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2142PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2143
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2144PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2145 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2146 This has been fixed.
2147
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2148PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2149 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2150 reported on Solaris.
2151
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2152PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2153 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2154 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2155 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2156 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2157 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2158 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2159
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2160PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2161 cpus.
2162
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2163PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2164
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PH
2165PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2166
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2167PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2168 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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2169 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2170 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2171 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2172 criteria to be more general.
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2174PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2175 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2176 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2177 host_all_ignored option.
2178
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2179PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2180 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2181 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2182 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2183 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2184 is what is supposed to happen).
2185
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2186PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2187 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2188 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2189 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2190 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2191 uses the Exim user.
2192
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2193PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2194 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2195 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2196 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2197 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2198 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2199 users.
2200
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2201PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2202
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2203SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2204 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2205 (Jez Hancock).
2206 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2207 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2208
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SC
2209SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2210
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2211PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2212
58eb016e 2213PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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2214 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2215 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2216 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2217 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2218 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2219 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2220 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2221 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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2222 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2223 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2224
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2225PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2226 advertised in response to EHLO.
2227
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2229Exim version 4.66
2230-----------------
2231
2232PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2233 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2234
2235 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2236 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2237
2238 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2239 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2240 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2241
2242 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2243 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2244 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2245 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2246 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2247
2248
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2250-----------------
2251
2252TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2253 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2254 versions. (#438)
2255
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2256MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2257 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2258 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2259
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2260PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2261 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2262 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2263 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2264 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2265 rather than extend the field.
2266
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2268Exim version 4.64
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2271TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2272 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2273 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2274 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2275 these files.
2276
2277TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2278 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2279 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2280
2281TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2282 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2283 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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2284
2285TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2286 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2287 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2288 in the field name.
2289
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2290PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2291 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2292 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2293 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2294 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2295 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2296 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2297 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2298 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2299 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2300 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2301
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2302PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2303 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2304
2305PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2306 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2307 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2308 ignores EPIPE as well.
2309
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PH
2310PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2311 (quoted-printable decoding).
2312
cc2ed8f7 2313PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2314 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2315
ddfcd446
PH
2316PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2317
d45b1de8
PH
2318PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2319
2320PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2321
38a0a95f 2322PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2323 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2324
a2405d83
JJ
2325JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2326 in 4.64-PH/09.
2327
2328JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2329 miscellaneous code fixes
2330
6ea85e9a
PH
2331PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2332 rejections.
2333
26da7e20
PH
2334PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2335 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2336 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2337 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2338 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2339 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2340 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2341 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2342
14aa5a05 2343PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2344 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2345 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2346 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2347 function.
2348 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2349 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2350 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2351 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2352 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2353 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2354 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2355 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2356 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2357
ff75a1f7
PH
2358PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2359 decoding.
2360
e6f6568e
PH
2361PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2362 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2363 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2364 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2365 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2366 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2367 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2368 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2369
d6f6e0dc
PH
2370PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2371 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2372 list.
2373
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PH
2374PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2375 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2376 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2377 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2378 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2379 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2380 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2381 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2382 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2383 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2384 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2385 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2386 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2387
08955dd3
PH
2388PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2389 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2390 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2391 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2392 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2393 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2394 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2395
1eccaa59
PH
2396PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2397 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2398 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2399 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2400 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2401 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2402 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2403 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2404 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2405 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2406
602e59e5
PH
2407PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2408 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2409 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2410 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2411 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2412
411ef850
PH
2413PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2414 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2415 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2416 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2417 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2418 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2419 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2420
7befa435
PH
2421PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2422 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2423 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2424 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2425 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2426 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2427 been verified.
2428
48da4259 2429PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2430 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2431 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2432 and authorization.)
2433
48da4259
PH
2434PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2435 if any retry times were supplied.
2436
d1d5595c
PH
2437PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2438 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2439 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2440
0ef732d9
PH
2441PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2442
328895cc
PH
2443PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2444
fd700877
PH
2445PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2446 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2447 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2448 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2449 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2450 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2451
8dce1a6f
PH
2452PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2453 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2454
17af4a17
PH
2455PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2456 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2457 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2458
2459PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2460 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2461 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2462 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2463 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2464 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2465 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2466 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2467 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2468
2469 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2470 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2471 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2472 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2473 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2474 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2475 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2476 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2477 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2478
2479 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2480 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2481 hammering the server.
2482
c1114884
PH
2483PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2484 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2485
7a0743eb
PH
2486PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2487
0d85fa3f
PH
2488PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2489 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2490 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2491
1bf43b78
PH
2492PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2493 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2494 one case where this was not true.
2495
520de300
PH
2496PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2497 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2498 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2499 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2500 fails.
2501
48c7f9e2
PH
2502PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2503 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2504 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2505 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2506 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2507 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2508 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2509 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2510 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2511 smtp transport.
2512
99ea1c86
PH
2513PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2514 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2515 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2516 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2517
a2042e78
PH
2518PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2519 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2520
4fbcfc2e
PH
2521PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2522 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2523 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2524
aa41d2de
PH
2525PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2526
af561417
PH
2527PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2528
3cc66b45
PH
2529PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2530
194cc0e4
PH
2531PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2532 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2533 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2534 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2535
a401ddaa
PH
2536PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2537 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2538
4e88a19f
PH
2539PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2540 be meaningful with "accept".
2541
d7d7b289
SC
2542SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2543 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2544
2545SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2546 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2547 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2548
2549SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2550 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2551 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2552 there is data to show.
2553 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2554
2555SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2556 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2557 as well as the number of messages.
2558
2559SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2560 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2561 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2562
2563SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2564 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2565 have a flag are now skipped.
2566
2567SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2568 Added the -emptyok flag.
2569
2570SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2571 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2572
0ea2a468
JJ
2573JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2574 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2575 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2576
2577JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2578 match 4.64-PH/13
2579
2580JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2581 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2582
2583JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2584
2585JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2586 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2587
8a10f5a4
PH
2588PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2589
30e18802
PH
2590PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2591 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2592 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2593 contravention of the specifications.
2594
55728a4f
PH
2595PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2596 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2597 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2598
d7837193
PH
2599PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2600 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2601 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2602
87054a31
PH
2603PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2604
ea2c01d2
MH
2605MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2606 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2607 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2608 some point in the past.
2609
e4fa6968
PH
2610PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2611 transport during callout processing was broken.
2612
56f5d9bd
PH
2613PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2614 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2615
922e1c28
PH
2616PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2617 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2618
21eb6e72
PH
2619PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2620 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2621
a0540757
PH
2622PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2623
944e9e9c 2624
478be7b0
SC
2625Exim version 4.63
2626-----------------
2627
2628SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2629 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2630
2631SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2632 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2633 there is data to show.
2634 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2635
2636SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2637 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2638
2b965a65
TF
2639TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2640 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2641
45b91596
PH
2642TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2643 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2644
c59f5781
TF
2645TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2646 submissions from trusted users.
2647
90fc3069
TF
2648TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2649 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2650
6083aca0
TF
2651TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2652 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2653 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2654 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2655 there is now a framework to start from.
2656
765b530f
PH
2657PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2658 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2659 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2660
4e167a8c
PH
2661PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2662
4608d683
PH
2663PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2664
b8dc3e4a
PH
2665PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2666
5418e93b
PH
2667PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2668 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2669 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2670
b4a9bda2
PH
2671PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2672 libradius.
2673
45b91596
PH
2674PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2675 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2676 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2677
5547e2c5
PH
2678PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2679 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2680 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2681 its arguments.
2682
dbcef0ea
PH
2683PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2684 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2685 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2686 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2687 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2688
25257489
PH
2689PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2690 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2691
c816d124
PH
2692PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2693
a9ccd69a
PH
2694PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2695 operations in malware.c.
2696
75fa1910
PH
2697PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2698 signatures.
2699
a7d7aa58
PH
2700PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2701 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2702 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2703 all.
2704
42119b09
PH
2705PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2706 statements to "add_header".
2707
41609df5
PH
2708PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2709 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2710
a5bd321b
PH
2711PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2712 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2713 latter.
2714
e85a7ad5 2715PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2716 so that it is now:
2717
e85a7ad5
PH
2718 ${if or { \
2719 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2720 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2721 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2722 }{no}{yes}}
2723
e85a7ad5
PH
2724 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2725 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2726
d8fe1c03
PH
2727PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2728 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2729
16282d2b
PH
2730PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2731 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2732 any possible encoding problems.
2733
35d40a98
PH
2734PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2735 but not after initializing Perl.
2736
034d99ab
PH
2737PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2738 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2739 apparently, which is not desirable.
2740
6ec97b1b
PH
2741PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2742 queries.
2743
e22ca4ac
JJ
2744JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2745 --not options
2746
2747JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2748
33d73e3b
PH
2749PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2750 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2751 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2752 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2753
9ecb03f3
PH
2754PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2755 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2756 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2757
084efe8d
PH
2758PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2759 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2760 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2761 0.12.
2762
366fc9f0
PH
2763PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2764 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2765 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2766 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2767 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2768
c59f5781 2769
c887c79e
TF
2770Exim version 4.62
2771-----------------
2772
2773TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2774 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2775
1cce3af8
PH
2776PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2777 patch).
2778
afb3eaaf
PH
2779PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2780 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2781 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2782 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2783 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2784 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2785 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2786 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2787 451 error is used.
2788
e173618b
PH
2789PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2790
dd16e114
PH
2791PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2792 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2793 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2794
f7fd3850
PH
2795PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2796 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2797 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2798 odd errors.
2799
d87df92c
PH
2800PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2801 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2802
7e9f683d
PH
2803PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2804 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2805 option (which defaults to 0600).
2806
bfad5236
PH
2807PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2808
01c490df
PH
2809PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2810 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2811 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2812 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2813 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2814 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2815 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2816
d6629cdc
PH
2817PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2818
1cce3af8 2819
214e2000
PH
2820Exim version 4.61
2821-----------------
2822
2823PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2824 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2825 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2826 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2827 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2828 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2829 addresses as local.
2830
f9daeae0
PH
2831PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2832 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2833
7e66e54d
PH
2834PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2835
c8ea1597
PH
2836PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2837 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2838 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2839 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2840 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2841 grumble.
2842
911f6fde
PH
2843PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2844 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2845
47ca6d6c
PH
2846PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2847 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2848 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2849 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2850 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2851
ed0e9820
PH
2852PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2853 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2854 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2855 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2856
eff37e47
PH
2857PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2858 be the same on different OS.
2859
1921d2ea
PH
2860PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2861 testing.
2862
b3f69ca8
JJ
2863JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2864 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2865
2866JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2867 in 4.61-PH/06
2868
424a1c63
PH
2869PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2870 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2871 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2872 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2873 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2874 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2875 bounce message.
2876
7a100415
PH
2877PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2878 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2879 when Exim was called.
2880
19b9dc85
PH
2881PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2882 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2883
309bd837
PH
2884PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2885 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2886 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2887 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2888
59e82a2a
PH
2889PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2890 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2891 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2892 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2893 changes:
2894
2895 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2896 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2897 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2898
2899 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2900 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2901 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2902
9edc04ce
PH
2903PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2904 feature).
2905
1349e1e5
PH
2906PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2907 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2908 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2909 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2910 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2911 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2912 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2913 values from the SRV records were lost.
2914
ea49d0e1
PH
2915PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2916 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2917 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2918
064a94c9
PH
2919PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2920 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2921 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2922
727071f8
PH
2923PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2924 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2925 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2926 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2927 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2928 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2929 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2930 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2931 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2932 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2933
f78eb7c6
PH
2934PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2935 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2936 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2937
21c28500
PH
2938PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2939 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2940
2941PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2942 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2943 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2944 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2945 is given.
2946
1688f43b
PH
2947PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2948 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2949 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2950
2951PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2952 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2953 PH/23 above applies.
2954
9675b384
PH
2955PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2956 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2957 (for which there is an explicit test).
2958
6a3f1455
PH
2959PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2960
dac79d3e
PH
2961PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2962 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2963 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2964 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2965 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2966
5977a0b3
PH
2967PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2968 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2969 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2970 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2971
c91535f3
PH
2972PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2973 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2974 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2975
0d46a8c8
PH
2976PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2977
278c6e6c
PH
2978PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2979
2cbb4081
PH
2980PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2981 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2982 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2983
3eef829e
PH
2984PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2985 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2986 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2987 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2988 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2989
1ab95fa6
PH
2990PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2991 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2992 the message gets confusing).
2993
230205fc
PH
2994PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2995 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2996 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2997 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2998
75e0e026
PH
2999PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3000 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3001 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3002 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3003 same order.
3004
3005PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3006 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3007 the different processes.
3008
145396a6
PH
3009PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3010
3cd34f13
PH
3011PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3012
11121d3d
JJ
3013JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3014 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3015
3016JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3017 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3018
3019JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3020 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3021 messages matching specified criteria.
3022
8def5aaf
PH
3023PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3024
929ba01c
PH
3025PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3026 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3027
2632889e
PH
3028PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3029 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3030 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3031 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3032 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3033 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3034 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3035 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3036 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3037 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3038
944a9c55
PH
3039PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3040 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3041 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3042
4a23603b
PH
3043PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3044
4730f942
PH
3045PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3046 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3047 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3048 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3049 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3050 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3051 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3052 the variable.
3053
30dba1e6
PH
3054PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3055 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3056
382afc6b
PH
3057PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3058
a86229cf
PH
3059PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3060
50c99ba6
PH
3061PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3062
d35e429d
PH
3063PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3064 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3065 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3066 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3067 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3068 size of the count of files.
3069
f90d018c
PH
3070PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3071
75def545
PH
3072PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3073 used in LMTP mode:
3074
3075 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3076 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3077 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3078 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3079
3080 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3081 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3082 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3083
3084PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3085 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3086 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3087 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3088 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3089
c46782ef
PH
3090PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3091 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3092
71fafd95
PH
3093PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3094 will now be deprecated.
3095
2c5db4fd
PH
3096PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3097
9cf6b11a
JJ
3098JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3099 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3100 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3101
3102JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3103 with very large, slow to parse queues
3104
3105JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3106
3107JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3108
898d150f
PH
3109PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3110 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3111 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3112 SMTP output lines.
3113
46218253
PH
3114PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3115 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3116 Sieve code now uses this.
3117
e97957bc
PH
3118PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3119 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3120
81e509d7
PH
3121PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3122 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3123
3d240ff7
PH
3124PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3125
b37c4101
PH
3126PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3127 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3128 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3129 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3130 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3131
79378e0f
PH
3132PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3133 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3134 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3135 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3136
e49c7bb4
PH
3137PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3138
d114ec46
PH
3139PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3140
f3d7df6c
PH
3141PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3142 is preferred over IPv4.
3143
715ab376
PH
3144PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3145 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3146 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3147 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3148 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3149 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3150 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3151
6b31b150
PH
3152PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3153 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3154 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3155
3156PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3157
d515a917
PH
3158PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3159 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3160 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3161 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3162 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3163 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3164 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3165 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3166 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3167 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3168 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3169
9b8fadde
PH
3170PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3171 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3172 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3173
214e2000 3174
5de37277
PH
3175Exim version 4.60
3176-----------------
3177
cc38ddbf
PH
3178PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3179
3180 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3181 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3182
3183 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3184 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3185 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3186
72fdd6ae
PH
3187PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3188
3189 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3190 not a single digit.
3191
3192 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3193 string.
3194
3195 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3196 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3197 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3198 silly things.
3199
3200 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3201 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3202
3203 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3204 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3205
cb741023
PH
3206PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3207 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3208 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3209
f174f16e
PH
3210PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3211 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3212
c25242d7
PH
3213PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3214 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3215
3216 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3217
3218 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3219 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3220 this:
3221
3222 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3223
82c19f95
PH
3224PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3225 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3226 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3227 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3228 identical. For example:
3229
3230 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3231
3232 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3233 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3234 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3235
d7ffbc12
PH
3236PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3237 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3238 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3239 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3240
9f526266
PH
3241PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3242 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3243 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3244 message.
3245
87fcc8b9
PH
3246PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3247
3248 o fixes some comments
3249 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3250 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3251 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3252 and documents the missing references header update
3253
3254 and most important:
3255
3256 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3257 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3258 result)
3259
456682f5
PH
3260PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3261 Electronic Mail") by including:
3262
3263 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3264
3265 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3266 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3267 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3268 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3269 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3270
3271 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3272
3273 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3274
3275 The auto-replied keyword:
3276
3277 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3278 message by an automatic process,
3279
3280 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3281
3282 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3283 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3284
3285 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3286 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3287 other messages.
3288
3e46c1aa
PH
3289PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3290 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3291
49826d12
PH
3292PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3293
eba0c039
PH
3294PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3295 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3296 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3297
a0d6ba8a
PH
3298PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3299 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3300 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3301
f0917727
PH
3302PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3303 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3304 and treats the condition as false.
3305
096fee00
PH
3306PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3307
024bd3c2
PH
3308PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3309 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3310 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3311 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3312 not changing the active code.
3313
3314 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3315 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3316
3317 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3318 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3319
df199fec
PH
3320PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3321 (Bugzilla #53).
3322
d27f1df3
PH
3323PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3324 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3325 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3326 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3327 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3328 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3329 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3330 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3331 the text comparison.
3332
96776534
PH
3333PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3334 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3335 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3336 The same fix has been applied.
3337
5de37277 3338
9a799bc0
PH
3339Exim version 4.54
3340-----------------
3341
3342PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3343 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3344 It now does.
3345
99a4b039
PH
3346PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3347 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3348
3349PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3350
4b233853
PH
3351PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3352 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3353 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3354 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3355 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3356
8857ccfd
PH
3357TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3358 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3359 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3360 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3361 or /domain=).
3362
433a2980
PH
3363PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3364 testing suite.
3365
3e46c1aa 3366
9a799bc0 3367
e3a311ba
TK
3368Exim version 4.53
3369-----------------
3370
3371TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3372 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3373
13b685f9
PH
3374PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3375
395ff96d
PH
3376PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3377
5b68f6e4
PH
3378PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3379 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3380 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3381
1ab52c69
PH
3382PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3383 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3384 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3385
b07e6aa3
PH
3386PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3387 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3388 operating systems.
3389
254e032f
PH
3390PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3391 ${stat: expansion item.
3392
3af76a81
PH
3393PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3394 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3395
2548ba04
PH
3396PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3397 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3398 file for comments.
3399
b6c6011d
PH
3400PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3401
cf39cf57
PH
3402PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3403 setting.
3404
f1513293
PH
3405PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3406 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3407
727549a4
PH
3408TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3409
af46795e
PH
3410PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3411 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3412 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3413 the end of the subprocess.
3414
d7b47fd0
PH
3415PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3416 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3417 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3418 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3419 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3420
ee744174
JJ
3421JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3422
b582ab87
PH
3423TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3424
41a13e0a
PH
3425PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3426 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3427
f625cc5a
PH
3428PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3429
3430PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3431
21f7af35
PH
3432PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3433 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3434 HP-UX compiler.
3435
31480e42
PH
3436PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3437
2d280592
PH
3438PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3439 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3440 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3441
7cd1141b
PH
3442PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3443 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3444
3445PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3446 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3447
750af86e
PH
3448PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3449 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3450
3451 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3452 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3453
3454 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3455 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3456 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3457 contributed by a Radius user.
3458
3459PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3460 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3461
4304270b
TK
3462TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3463 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3464
750af86e
PH
3465PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3466 available.
3467
64ffc24f
PH
3468PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3469 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3470 received.
3471
5dd9625b
PH
3472PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3473 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3474 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3475 header lines when this was not necessary.
3476
5591031b
PH
3477PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3478
ba18e66a
PH
3479PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3480 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3481 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3482 exists".
3483
9cec981f
PH
3484PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3485 -bV or -d is used.
3486
aa2b5c79
PH
3487PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3488 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3489 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3490 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3491
48a53b7f
PH
3492PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3493
1c59d63b
PH
3494PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3495
671012da
TK
3496TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3497
1509d3a8
PH
3498PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3499
3500PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3501 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3502 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3503 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3504 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3505 settings.
3506
3507PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3508
2fe1a124
PH
3509PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3510 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3511 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3512 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3513 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3514 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3515 which is clearly wrong.
3516
8800895a
PH
3517PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3518
ccfdb010
PH
3519PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3520 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3521 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3522 subsequently added.
3523
1130bfb0
PH
3524PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3525 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3526
ebcb507f
PH
3527PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3528
c35e155c
PH
3529PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3530 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3531
95d1f782
PH
3532PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3533 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3534
fd6de02e
PH
3535PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3536 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3537
58de37c5
PH
3538PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3539 recipients, not senders.
3540
261cf466
TF
3541TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3542 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3543
3ee512ff
PH
3544PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3545
e08c430f
PH
3546PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3547
bef5a11f
PH
3548PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3549 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3550 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3551 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3552
7546de58
TF
3553TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3554
e5d5a95f
TF
3555TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3556 clock is set back in time.
3557
2e88a017
TF
3558TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3559 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3560
a5f65aa4
TF
3561TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3562 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3563
e7726cbf
PH
3564PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3565 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3566 (see PH/47 above).
3567
a7fdad5b
TF
3568TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3569 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3570 header rewrites.
3571
6af56900
PH
3572PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3573 type ("H").
3574
0925ede6
PH
3575PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3576
66afa403
TF
3577TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3578 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3579 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3580
0154e85a
TF
3581TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3582 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3583 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3584 helo verification defer as a failure.
3585
16f12c76
PH
3586PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3587 actual error message.
3588
bbe902f0 3589
e5a9dba6
PH
3590Exim version 4.52
3591-----------------
3592
3593TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3594
22c3b60b
PH
3595PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3596 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3597 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3598 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3599
06a9b4b5
PH
3600TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3601
c1ac6996
PH
3602PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3603 can still be requested.
3604
9c7a242c
PH
3605PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3606 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3607 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3608 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3609
87ba3f5f
PH
3610TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3611 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3612 circumstances, but probably never did.
3613
3614PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3615 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3616 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3617 in the header line.
3618
29aba418
TF
3619TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3620
fe0dab11
TF
3621TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3622 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3623
11d337a4
TK
3624TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3625
3626TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3627
415c8f3b
PH
3628PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3629 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3630 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3631 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3632 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3633 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3634
958541e9
PH
3635PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3636 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3637 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3638 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3639 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3640 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3641
c206415f
TK
3642TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3643 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3644
2a4be8f9
PH
3645PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3646 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3647
1cba11c5
SC
3648SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3649 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3650
4c04137d 3651SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3652
3653SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3654
3655SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3656
3657SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3658
3659SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3660
3661SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3662
1005d00e
TK
3663TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3664
3665TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3666 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3667 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3668
3669TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3670 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3671 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3672 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3673
9b4768fa
PH
3674PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3675 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3676 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3677
3678PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3679 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3680 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3681 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3682
0d7eb84a
PH
3683PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3684 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3685 to be made).
3686
3687PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3688 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3689 should work with maildirs and everything.
3690
40727bee
TK
3691TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3692 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3693
554d2369
TF
3694TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3695 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3696
1f922db1
PH
3697PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3698 function for BDB 4.3.
3699
ef213c3b
PH
3700PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3701
8ac170f3
PH
3702PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3703 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3704 involved.
3705
b1c749bb
PH
3706PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3707 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3708 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3709 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3710 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3711 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3712
4aac9b49
PH
3713PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3714 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3715 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3716 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3717 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3718 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3719 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3720 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3721
294520c8
TK
3722TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3723 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3724 details.
3725
5bd022fe
PH
3726PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3727 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3728
90e9ce59
PH
3729PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3730 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3731 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3732 test. It is now used for both.
3733
5ea81592
PH
3734PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3735 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3736 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3737 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3738 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3739 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3740
c6c2dc1d
PH
3741PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3742 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3743 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3744 string_vformat().
3745
fffffe4c
PH
3746PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3747 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3748 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3749
9a26b6b2
PH
3750PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3751 experimental DomainKeys support:
3752
3753 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3754 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3755 the control was given.
3756
3757 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3758
4aee0225
PH
3759PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3760
32d668a5
PH
3761PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3762
8187c3f3
PH
3763PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3764 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3765 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3766 db.h files).
3767
ff790e47 3768PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3769 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3770 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3771 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3772 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3773 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3774 course.
ff790e47 3775
5417f6d1
PH
3776PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3777 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3778 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3779 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3780 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3781 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3782
59cf8544
PH
3783PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3784 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3785 do -d+all out of habit.
3786
e7ad8a65
PH
3787PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3788 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3789 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3790
ade42478
PH
3791PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3792 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3793 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3794 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3795 record types that Exim uses.
3796
182ad5cf
PH
3797PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3798 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3799 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3800 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3801 non-existent file that was broken.
3802
b0d9fc80
TK
3803TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3804 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3805
3806TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3807 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3808 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3809
3810TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3811
47c7a64a
PH
3812PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3813 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3814 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3815 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3816 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3817 same time.
3818
a388bce4
SC
3819SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3820 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3821 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3822 at a slight CPU cost.
3823
3824SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3825 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3826
3827SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3828 by Marc Sherman.
3829
0793e4ed
SC
3830SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3831
c58b88df
PH
3832PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3833 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3834
e7ad8a65 3835
7982096b
PH
3836Exim version 4.51
3837-----------------
3838
1a46a8c5
PH
3839TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3840 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3841
2f079f46 3842TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3843
3844TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3845
3846PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3847 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3848
3849PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3850 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3851 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3852 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3853 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3854 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3855 file.
3856
3857PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3858 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3859 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3860 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3861 these two options.
3862
3863PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3864 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3865 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3866 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3867 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3868 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3869 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3870 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3871
3872PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3873 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3874
3875PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3876 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3877 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3878 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3879 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3880 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3881
3882PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3883 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3884 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3885 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3886
3887PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3888 Finch).
3889
3890PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3891 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3892
49c2d5ea
PH
3893PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3894 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3895 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3896 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3897 message.
49c2d5ea 3898
bf759a8b
PH
3899PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3900
83364d30
PH
3901PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3902 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3903
7999bbd7
PH
3904PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3905 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3906 to what was transported.)
3907
7dbf77c9
PH
3908TF/01 Added $received_time.
3909
74e0617f
PH
3910PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3911 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3912 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3913 spamd_address settings.
3914
2f079f46
PH
3915PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3916 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3917 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3918 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3919 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3920
8c841523
PH
3921PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3922
7766a4f0
PH
3923PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3924 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3925 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3926 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3927 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3928
8b417f2c
PH
3929PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3930 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3931
901f42cb
PH
3932PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3933 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3934 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3935 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3936 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3937 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3938 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3939 for failure.
3940
f9b9210e
PH
3941PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3942 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3943 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3944 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3945 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3946 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3947 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3948 "input=".
3949
54cdb463
PH
3950PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3951
cf00dad6
PH
3952PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3953 driver and ACL definitions.
3954
acb1b346
PH
3955PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3956 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3957
c5ddb310
PH
3958PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3959 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3960 understands it better than I do:
3961
3962 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3963 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3964
3965 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3966 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3967 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3968 => three warnings about OTP not working
3969 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3970
3971 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3972 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3973 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3974 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3975 for each call.)
3976 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3977 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3978
3979 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3980 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3981 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3982
31619da6
PH
3983PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3984 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3985 specified.
3986
bebaf0fc
PH
3987PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3988 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3989 "Linux".
3990
475fe28a
PH
3991PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3992 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3993 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3994
3995 warn !verify = sender
3996 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3997
3998 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3999 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4000
7e8bec7a
PH
4001PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4002
4003 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4004 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4005
4006 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4007 nomenclature these days.)
4008
e4a89c47
PH
4009PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4010 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4011
5ca2a9a1
PH
4012PH/30 In these circumstances:
4013 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4014 . First host does not offer TLS;
4015 . First host accepts first address;
4016 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4017 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4018 . Second host accepts second address.
4019 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4020 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4021 address.
7e8bec7a 4022
c688b954
PH
4023PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4024 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4025 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4026 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4027 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4028
fed77020
PH
4029PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4030 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4031
7fe1560f
PH
4032PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4033 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4034
ebb6e6d5
PH
4035PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4036 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4037 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4038
9c4e8f60
PH
4039PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4040 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4041 overlooked.
4042
4043PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4044
d7174846
PH
4045PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4046 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4047 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4048 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4049 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4050 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4051 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4052
4053 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4054 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4055 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4056 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4057 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4058
4059 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4060 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4061 routed further.
4062
cfe75fc3
PH
4063PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4064 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4065 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4066 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4067 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4068 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4069
be22d70e
PH
4070PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4071
0612b098
PH
4072PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4073 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4074 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4075 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4076 printable escape sequences.
4077
2e0c1448
PH
4078PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4079 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4080 body only.
4081
447d236c
PH
4082PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4083 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4084 are as follows:
4085
4086 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4087 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4088 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4089 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4090 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4091
4092 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4093 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4094 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4095
d20976dc
PH
4096PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4097
f656d135
PH
4098PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4099 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4100 play with."
4101
2e2a30b4
PH
4102PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4103 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4104 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4105 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4106 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4107 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4108 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4109 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4110 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4111 the log output.
4112
9176e9f0
PH
4113PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4114 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4115 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4116 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4117 "make".
4118
7982096b 4119
bbe902f0
PH
4120A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4121----------------------------------------
4122
4123Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4124changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4125needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4126in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4127that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4128release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4129from 4.43.
4130
4131I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
41324.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4133those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4134historical information.
4135
4136
f7b63901 4137Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4138-----------------
4139
5fe762f6
PH
4140 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4141
139059f6 4142 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4143 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4144
7086e875
PH
4145 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4146 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4147 place.
4148
35af9f61
PH
4149 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4150 filter fails to execute.
4151
b668c215
PH
4152 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4153 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4154 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4155 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4156 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4157
a494b1e1
PH
4158 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4159
4160 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4161 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4162 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4163 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4164
c5fcb476
PH
4165 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4166 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4167 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4168 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4169 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4170
69358f02
PH
4171 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4172
5be20824
PH
417310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4174
eb2c0248
PH
417511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4176 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4177 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4178 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4179
2a3eea10
PH
418012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4181 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4182 sender verification.
4183
418413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4185 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4186
23c7ff99
PH
418714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4188
4deaf07d
PH
418915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4190 connection timeout.
4191
926e1192
PH
419216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4193 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4194
650edc6f
PH
419517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4196 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4197
2c7db3f5
PH
419818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4199 information about exactly what failed.
4200
3d235903
PH
420119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4202
7c7ad977
PH
420320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4204 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4205 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4206
981756db
PH
420721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4208 It is now set to "smtps".
4209
d4eb88df
PH
421022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4211 ignore_target_hosts.
4212
421323. 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
7d468ab8
PH
421924. 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
422325. 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
62c0818f
PH
422726. 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
26034054
PH
423227. 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
af66f652
PH
423528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4236
90af77f4
PH
423729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4238 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4239 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4240 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4241 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4242 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4243 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4244 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4245
d8ef3577
PH
424630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4247 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4248 than one IP address.
4249
5cb8cbc6
PH
425031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4251 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4252 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4253 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4254
14702f5b
PH
425532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4256 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4257 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4258 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4259 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4260 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4261
063b1e99
PH
426233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4263 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4264 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4265 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4266
652e1b65
PH
426734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4268 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4269 respected.
4270
6f0c9a4f
PH
427135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4272 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4273 $sender_host_address.
4274
33397d19
PH
427536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4276 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4277 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4278 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4279 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4280 very small.
4281
7bb56e1f
PH
428237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4283
4284 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4285 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4286
ea3bc19b
PH
4287 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4288 just the host names, not the priorities.
4289
4290 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4291 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4292 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4293
ea3bc19b 4294 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4295 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4296
0bcb2a0e
PH
429738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4298 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4299 domain.
4300
2ac0e484
PH
430139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4302
4e1fde53
PH
430340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4304 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4305
de365ded
PH
430641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4307 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4308 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4309
f05da2e8
PH
431042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4311
d6453af2
PH
431243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4313
f7b63901
PH
431444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4315
431645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4317 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4318 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4319 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4320 because the tests only now provoked it.
4321
a444213a
PH
432246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4323 (this can affect the format of dates).
4324
0ec020ea
PH
432547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4326 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4327 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4328 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4329
b1206957
PH
433048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4331
433249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4333 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4334 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4335 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4336
26dd5a95
PH
433750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4338 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4339 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4340
343b2385
PH
434151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4342 autoreply.
4343
1c5466b9
PH
434452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4345 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4346 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4347 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4348 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4349 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4350 is going on).
4351
55ee9ee3
PH
435253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4353 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4354 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4355 the line.
4356
d38f8232
PH
435754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4358 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4359 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4360
4361 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4362 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4363 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4364 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4365 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4366 so I produce this patch..."
4367
3295e65b
PH
4368 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4369 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4370 is not defined.
4371
7102e136
PH
437255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4373 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4374 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4375 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4376 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4377
3ca0ba97
PH
437856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4379
c2bcbe20
PH
438057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4381 long debug lines gets shown.
4382
18ce445d
PH
438358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4384 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4385
1f5b4c3d
PH
438659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4387
4388 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4389 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4390 of $primary_hostname.
4391
b975ba52
PH
439260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4393 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4394 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4395 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4396 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4397 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4398 by change 4.50/55 above.
4399
4400 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4401 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4402 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4403 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4404 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4405 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4406 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4407
440861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4409 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4410 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4411 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4412
17ffcae7
PH
441362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4414 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4415
d95f9fdb
PH
441663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4417 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4418 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4419 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4420 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4421
86b8287f
PH
442264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4423 This has been fixed.
4424
60dc5e56
PH
442565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4426 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4427 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4428 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4429 the caching.)
4430
533244af
PH
443166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4432
a5a28604
PH
443367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4434 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4435 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4436 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4437
7e634d24
PH
443868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4439 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4440
3e11c26b
PH
444169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4442 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4443 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4444
6729cf78
PH
444570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4446 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4447 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4448 message there.
4449
00f00ca5
PH
445071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4451 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4452 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4453
c9bdd01c
PH
445472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4455 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4456 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4457 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4458
d43194df
PH
445973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4460 during host lookups.
4461
fe5b5d0b
PH
446274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4463 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4464
4465 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4466
76a2d7ba
PH
446775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4468 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4469 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4470 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4471 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4472 background.
4473
447476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4475 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4476
04f7d5b9
PH
447777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4478 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4479 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4480
bc60667e
PH
448178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4482
bb6e88ff
PH
448379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4484 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4485 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4486 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4487 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4488 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4489 process earlier.
4490
1e70f85b
PH
449180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4492 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4493 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4494 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4495 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4496
449781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4498 tables).
4499
4e01f9d6
PH
450082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4501
1ee1cef2
PH
450283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4503 "vacation" handling.
4504
6e2b4ccc
PH
450584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4506 OS variants using glibc.
4507
8e669ac1
PH
450885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4509
495ae4b0 4510
bbe902f0
PH
4511----------------------------------------------------
4512See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4513----------------------------------------------------
4514
4515
4516Exim version 4.44
4517-----------------
4518
4519 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4520 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4521 transport
4522
4523 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4524 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4525 place.
4526
4527 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4528 filter fails to execute.
4529
4530 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4531 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4532 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4533 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4534 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4535
4536 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4537 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4538 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4539 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4540
4541 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4542 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4543 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4544 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4545 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4546
4547 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4548
4549 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4550 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4551 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4552 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4553
4554 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4555 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4556 sender verification.
4557
455810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4559 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4560
456111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4562 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4563
456412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4565 ignore_target_hosts.
4566
456713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4568 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4569 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4570 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4571 "[x.x.x.x]".
4572
457314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4574 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4575 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4576
457715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4578 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4579 wake it up if nothing else does.
4580
458116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4582 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4583 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4584 end up negative.
4585
458617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4587 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4588
ea3a6f44 458918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4590
459119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4592 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4593 empty pattern.
4594
459520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4596 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4597 one IP address.
4598
ea3a6f44
NM
459921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4600 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4601 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4602 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4603 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4604 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4605
ea3a6f44
NM
460622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4607 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4608 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4609
461023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4611 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4612 $sender_host_address.
4613
461424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4615
ea3a6f44
NM
461625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4617 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4618 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4619
462026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4621 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4622
ea3a6f44
NM
462327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4624 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4625
ea3a6f44
NM
462628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4627 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4628 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4629 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4630
463129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4632 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4633 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4634
ea3a6f44
NM
463530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4636 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4637 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4638 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4639
ea3a6f44
NM
464031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4641 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4642 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4643
ea3a6f44
NM
464431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4645 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4646
ea3a6f44
NM
464732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4648 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4649 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4650 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4651 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4652 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4653 is going on).
bbe902f0 4654
ea3a6f44
NM
465533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4656 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4657 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4658 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4659 CAN-2005-0021
4660
ea3a6f44
NM
466134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4662 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4663 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4664 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4665 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4666 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4667 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4668
4669 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4670 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4671 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4672 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4673 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4674 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4675 CAN-2005-0021
4676
ea3a6f44
NM
467735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4678 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4679 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4680 CAN-2005-0022
4681
ea3a6f44
NM
468236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4683 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4684 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4685 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4686 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4687
ea3a6f44
NM
468837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4689 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4690 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4691 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4692 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4693
ea3a6f44
NM
469438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4695 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4696 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4697 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4698 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4699
4700
495ae4b0
PH
4701Exim version 4.43
4702-----------------
4703
4704 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4705 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4706 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4707 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4708 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4709 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4710 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4711
4712 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4713 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4714 the delivery.
4715
4716 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4717
4718 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4719
4720 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4721 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4722 to local_scan().
4723
4724 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4725 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4726 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4727 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4728 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4729
4730 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4731 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4732
4733 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4734
4735 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4736
473710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4738 header_sender only.
4739
474011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4741 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4742
474312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4744 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4745 affecting debugging statements).
4746
474713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4748
474914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4750 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4751 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4752 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4753 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4754 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4755 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4756 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4757 after the received time, and all would be well.
4758
475915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4760 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4761 condition in an expansion string.
4762
476316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4764
476517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4766 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4767 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4768 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4769 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4770 job under whatever limits there are.
4771
477218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4773
477419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4775 space).
4776
477720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4778 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4779 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4780 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4781 return path is set.
4782
478321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4784 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4785 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4786 binary data in such strings.
4787
478822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4789
479023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4791 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4792 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4793 failure, which is pointless.
4794
479524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4796
479725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4798
479926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4800 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4801 Sender: header lines.
4802
480327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4804 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4805 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4806
480728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4808 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4809 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4810 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4811 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4812 happens.
4813
481429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4815 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4816 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4817 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4818 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4819
482030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4821 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4822 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4823 1024.
4824
482531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4826 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4827
482832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4829 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4830
483133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4832
483332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4834
483533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4836
483734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4838 syntax error.
4839
484035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4841
484236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4843
484437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4845 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4846 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4847 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4848
484938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4850 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4851
4852
4853Exim version 4.42
4854-----------------
4855
4856 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4857 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4858 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4859 it was not quoted.
4860 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4861 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4862 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4863 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4864 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4865 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4866
4867 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4868 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4869 verification failure".
4870
4871 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4872 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4873 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4874 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4875
4876 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4877 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4878 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4879 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4880 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4881 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4882 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4883 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4884 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4885 treated as a timeout.
4886
4887 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4888 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4889 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4890 not set for Exim filters).
4891
4892 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4893 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4894 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4895
4896 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4897
4898 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4899 try to make them clearer.
4900
4901 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4902 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4903
4904 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4905
4906 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4907
490810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4909 only the Cygwin environment.
4910
491111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4912 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4913 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4914 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4915 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4916
491712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4918 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4919 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4920 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4921 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4922 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4923 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4924
492513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4926 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4927
492814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4929
4930 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4931 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4932 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4933
4934 To: susanne@some.where
4935
4936 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4937 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4938 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4939 of addresses in From: header lines).
4940
4941 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4942 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4943 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4944
4945 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4946 treated as non-personal.
4947
4948 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4949 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4950
495115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4952
495316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4954
495517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4956 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4957 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4958
495918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4960 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4961
496219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4963 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4964 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4965 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4966 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4967 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4968
496920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4970 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4971 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4972 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4973 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4974 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4975 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4976 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4977
4978 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4979
498021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4981 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4982
498322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4984 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4985 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4986
498723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4988 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4989
499024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4991 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4992 rather than long int.
4993
499425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4995
499626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4997
4998
4999Exim version 4.41
5000-----------------
5001
5002 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5003 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5004 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5005 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5006 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5007 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5008
5009
5010Exim version 4.40
5011-----------------
5012
5013 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5014 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5015
5016 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5017 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5018 socklen_t is defined.
5019
5020 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5021 always exist.
5022
5023 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5024 configured.
5025
5026 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5027 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5028 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5029 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5030 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5031
5032 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5033 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5034 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5035 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5036
5037 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5038 of flapping under certain conditions.
5039
5040 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5041 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5042 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5043
5044 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5045
504610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5047
504811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5049 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5050 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5051 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5052
505312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5054 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5055 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5056 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5057 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5058 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5059 preserved with the message after it was received.
5060
506113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5062 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5063 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5064 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5065 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5066 test suite worked just fine.
5067
506814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5069 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5070 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5071
507215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5073 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5074 string.
5075
507616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5077 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5078 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5079 does not fully solve it.
5080
508117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5082 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5083 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5084 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5085 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5086
508718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5088 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5089 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5090
509119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5092 string, for example:
5093
5094 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5095
5096 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5097 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5098 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5099 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5100 the routers could not see them.
5101
510220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5103 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5104
510521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5106 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5107 output).
5108
510922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5110 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5111 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5112 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5113 that needed quoting.
5114
511523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5116 was not being matched caselessly.
5117
511824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5119 backslashes.
5120
512125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5122 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5123 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5124 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5125 when use_sender is false.
5126
512726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5128
512927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5130
513128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5132
513329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5134 the configuration file.
5135
513630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5137 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5138
513931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5140
514132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5142 bytes in the message body.
5143
514433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5145 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5146 delivery.
5147
514834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5149
515035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5151
515236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5153 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5154 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5155 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5156 another IP address.
5157
5158
5159Exim version 4.34
5160-----------------
5161
5162 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5163 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5164
5165 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5166 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5167 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5168 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5169 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5170
5171 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5172 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5173
5174 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5175 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5176 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5177
5178 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5179 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5180 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5181
5182 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5183 for routers.
5184
5185 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5186 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5187 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5188 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5189 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5190 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5191 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5192
5193
5194Exim version 4.33
5195-----------------
5196
5197 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5198 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5199 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5200 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5201 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5202 default (and expected) setting.
5203
5204 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5205 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5206 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5207 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5208
5209 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5210 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5211
5212 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5213 in domain lists.
5214
5215 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5216 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5217 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5218 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5219 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5220 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5221
5222 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5223 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5224 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5225
5226 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5227 part (NOT match_host).
5228
5229 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5230
5231 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5232 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5233 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5234 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5235 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5236 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5237 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5238 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5239 the same named file.
5240
524110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5242 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5243 when Exim is built.
5244
524511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5246 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5247 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5248 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5249 a host name.
5250
525112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5252 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5253 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5254
525513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5256
525714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5258
525915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5260
526116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5262 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5263
526417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5265 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5266 before starting the TLS session.
5267
526818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5269
527019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5271 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5272
527320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5274 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5275 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5276 colon in the middle).
5277
5278
5279Exim version 4.32
5280-----------------
5281
5282 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5283 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5284 multiple configurations are in use.
5285
5286 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5287 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5288 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5289 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5290 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5291 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5292
5293 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5294 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5295
5296 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5297 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5298 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5299
5300 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5301 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5302 occurs.
5303
5304 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5305 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5306
5307 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5308
5309 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5310 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5311
5312 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5313
5314 -prval:sval
5315
5316 is equivalent to
5317
5318 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5319
5320 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5321 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5322 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5323 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5324 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5325
532610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5327 Exim's behaviour:
5328
5329 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5330 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5331 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5332 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5333 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5334 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5335
5336 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5337 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5338 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5339 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5340 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5341 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5342 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5343 string.
5344
5345 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5346 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5347 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5348 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5349 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5350
535111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5352
535312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5354 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5355 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5356
535713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5358
535914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5360 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5361 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5362 information.
5363
536415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5365 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5366
536716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5368 Three changes have been made:
5369
5370 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5371 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5372 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5373 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5374 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5375
5376 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5377 been restored.
5378
5379 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5380 the modified behaviour.
5381
5382
5383Exim version 4.31
5384-----------------
5385
5386 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5387 Larry Rosenman.
5388
5389 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5390 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5391
5392 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5393 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5394 try to track down a specific problem.
5395
5396 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5397 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5398 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5399
5400 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5401 warning.
5402
5403 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5404 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5405 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5406 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5407 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5408 some earlier ones do not.
5409
5410 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5411
5412 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5413 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5414 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5415 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5416 address literals are enabled, of course).
5417
5418 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5419
542010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5421 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5422 by a command such as
5423
5424 exim -f "" ...
5425
5426 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5427
542811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5429
543012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5431 remained set. It is now erased.
5432
543313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5434 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5435
543614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5437 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5438 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5439 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5440 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5441 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5442 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5443 appropriate error code.
5444
544515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5446 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5447 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5448 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5449 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5450 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5451
545216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5453 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5454 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5455
545617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5457 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5458 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5459 terminate the header.
5460
546118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5462 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5463 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5464
546519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5466 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5467 (4.30/29). In particular:
5468
5469 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5470 imposed.
5471
5472 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5473 to write a maildirsize file.
5474
5475 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5476 the transport, the new value overrides.
5477
5478 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5479 count.
5480
548120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5482 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5483 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5484 space or a tab.
5485
548621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5487 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5488 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5489 the fallback hosts.
5490
549122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5492 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5493 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5494
549523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5496 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5497 using a union.
5498
549924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5500 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5501 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5502
550325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5504
550526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5506
550727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5508
550928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5510 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5511 become corrupted.
5512
551329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5514 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5515 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5516 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5517 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5518 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5519 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5520 too great.
5521
552230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5523 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5524 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5525 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5526 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5527 incorrectly.
5528
552931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5530 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5531 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5532 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5533 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5534 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5535 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5536 cached value only when the same options are set.
5537
553832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5539
554033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5541 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5542 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5543 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5544 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5545
554634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5547 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5548 it is clearly obsolete.
5549
555035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5551 transport.
5552
555336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5554 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5555 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5556 times.
5557
555837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5559 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5560 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5561 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5562 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5563
556438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5565 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5566 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5567 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5568
556939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5570
5571 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5572
5573 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5574 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5575 2^31.
5576
557740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5578 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5579 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5580 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5581 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5582 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5583 $localpart_data.
5584
558541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5586 with the -f command-line option.
5587
558842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5589 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5590 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5591 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5592 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5593 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5594
559543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5596 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5597 line.
5598
559944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5600 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5601 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5602 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5603 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5604 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5605 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5606 buffer is too small.
5607
560845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5609 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5610
561146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5612 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5613 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5614 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5615 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5616 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5617 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5618 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5619 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5620
562147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5622 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5623 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5624
562548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5626 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5627 ACL").
5628
562949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5630 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5631 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5632 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5633 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5634
563550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5636 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5637 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5638 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5639 is set.
5640
564151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5642
564352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5644
564553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5646 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5647
564854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5649 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5650 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5651
565255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5653 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5654 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5655 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5656 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5657
565856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5659 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5660 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5661 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5662 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5663 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5664 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5665
566657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5667 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5668 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5669 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5670 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5671 the test of how many are available.
5672
567358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5674 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5675 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5676 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5677 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5678 new message is started.
5679
568059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5681 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5682
568360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5684 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5685
568661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5687 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5688 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5689 is no long logged.
5690
569162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5692 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5693 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5694 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5695 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5696 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5697 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5698
569963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5700 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5701 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5702 interpreted as octal.
5703
570464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5705 setting.
5706
570765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5708 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5709 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5710 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5711 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5712 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5713
571466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5715 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5716 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5717 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5718
5719 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5720 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5721 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5722 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5723
5724 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5725 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5726 is a bug fix.
5727
5728 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5729 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5730
573167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5732
573368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5734 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5735 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5736 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5737
573869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5739 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5740 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5741 supplied", which is not helpful.
5742
574370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5744 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5745 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5746
574771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5748 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5749 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5750 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5751 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5752 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5753 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5754 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5755
575672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5757 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5758 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5759 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5760 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5761
576273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5763 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5764 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5765 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5766 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5767 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5768
576974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5770 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5771 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5772
577375. Added write_rejectlog option.
5774
577576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5776 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5777 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5778 variables.
5779
578077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5781
578278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5783 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5784 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5785 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5786 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5787 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5788 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5789 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5790
579179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5792 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5793 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5794 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5795 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5796
579780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5798 Haardt.
5799
580081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5801 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5802 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5803 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5804 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5805 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5806 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5807 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5808 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5809
5810
5811Exim version 4.30
5812-----------------
5813
5814 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5815 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5816 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5817
5818 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5819 fixed.
5820
5821 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5822 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5823 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5824
5825 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5826 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5827 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5828 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5829 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5830 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5831
5832 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5833 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5834 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5835 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5836 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5837 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5838 the Exim test suite.
5839
5840 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5841 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5842 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5843 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5844
5845 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5846 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5847 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5848 specify it in this variable.
5849
5850 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5851 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5852 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5853 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5854
5855 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5856 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5857 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5858 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5859
5860 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5861 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5862 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5863 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5864 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5865
5866 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5867
586810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5869 they are logged.
5870
587111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5872 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5873 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5874 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5875 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5876
587712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5878 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5879
588013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5881 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5882 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5883 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5884 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5885
588614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5887 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5888
588915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5890 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5891 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5892
589316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5894 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5895
589617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5897 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5898
589918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5900 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5901 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5902
590319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5904 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5905
590620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5907 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5908 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5909 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5910
591121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5912
591322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5914 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5915 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5916 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5917
591823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5919
592024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5921 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5922
592325. Added .include_if_exists.
5924
592526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5926 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5927 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5928 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5929 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5930 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5931
593227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5933
593428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5935 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5936 this.
5937
593829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5939
594030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5941 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5942
5943 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5944 550 Sender verify failed
5945
5946 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5947 the final line of the response.
5948
594931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5950 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5951 all other user lookups.
5952
595332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5954 delivery time.
5955
595633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5957 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5958 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5959 result into an int without checking.
5960
596134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5962 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 5963 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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5964
596535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5966 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5967 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5968 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5969
597036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5971 correctly.
5972
597337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5974 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5975
597638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5977 to the empty sender.
5978
597939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5980 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5981 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5982 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5983 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5984 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5985 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5986 panic log.
5987
598840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5989 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5990 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5991 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5992 used.
5993
599441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5995 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5996
599742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5998 timestamps.
5999
600043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6001 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6002
600344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6004
600545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6006 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6007 logs.
6008
600946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6010 as soon as it is encountered.
6011
601247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6013
601448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6015 rewritten to "<>".
6016
601749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6018 recognizes a tab character.
6019
602050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6021 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6022 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6023 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6024
602551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6026
602752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6028 crash.
6029
603053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6031
603254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6033
603455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6035 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6036 2822.
6037
603856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6039 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6040 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6041 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6042 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6043
604457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6045 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6046
604758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6048 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6049 list (.included file names were always shown).
6050
605159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6052 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6053 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6054 root at that time.
6055
605660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6057 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6058
605961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6060
606162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6062
606363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6064
606564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6066 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6067 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6068 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6069 failures to open the logs.
6070
607165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6072 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6073 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6074 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6075 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6076 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6077 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6078
6079
6080Exim version 4.24
6081-----------------
6082
6083 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6084 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6085 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6086 change 4.23/1.
6087
6088 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6089 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6090 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6091
6092 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6093 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6094 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6095
6096 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6097 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6098 causing some misleading effects.
6099
6100 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6101 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6102 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6103
6104 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6105 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6106 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6107 queue-runner function directly.
6108
6109
6110Exim version 4.23
6111-----------------
6112
6113 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6114 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6115
6116 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6117 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6118 was always written to the default place.
6119
6120 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6121 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6122 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6123
6124 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6125
6126 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6127
6128 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6129 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6130 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6131
6132 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6133 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6134 must start.
6135
6136 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6137 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6138 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6139
6140 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6141 command line option is disabled.
6142
6143 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6144 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6145
6146 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6147
6148 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6149
6150 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6151 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6152
615310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6154
615511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6156 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6157 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6158 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6159 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6160 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6161
616212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6163 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6164 timeout.
6165
616613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6167 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6168
616914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6170 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6171
617215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6173 received was valid base64.
6174
617516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6176 name of the variable that was being set.
6177
617817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6179
618018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6181 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6182 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6183 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6184 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6185 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6186
618719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6188
618920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6190 nor realm was specified.
6191
619221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6193 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6194 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6195 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6196
619722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6198 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6199 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6200
620123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6202 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6203 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6204
620524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6206 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6207 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6208 some systems use these upper case variants.
6209
621025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6211 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6212 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6213 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6214
621526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6216
621727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6218 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6219
622028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6221 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6222 expansion variable.
6223
622429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6225
622630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6227 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6228 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6229 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6230
623131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6232 using it.
6233
623432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6235 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6236 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6237
623833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6239 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6240
624134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6242 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6243 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6244 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6245
624635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6247 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6248 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6249
625036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6251
625237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6253 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6254 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6255 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6256 aborted.
6257
625838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6259 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6260 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6261
626239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6263
626440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6265 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6266
626741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6268 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6269
627042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6271 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6272 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6273 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6274 when emails are that large.
6275
6276
6277
6278Exim version 4.22
6279-----------------
6280
6281 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6282 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6283
6284 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6285 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6286 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6287
6288 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6289 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6290 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6291
6292 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6293 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6294 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6295 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6296 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6297
6298 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6299 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6300 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6301 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6302 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6303 ever.
6304
6305 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6306 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6307 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6308 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6309 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6310 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6311 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6312 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6313 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6314 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6315 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6316 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6317 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6318 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6319
6320 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6321 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6322 parameterised it.
6323
6324 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6325 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6326 error should be diagnosed.
6327
6328 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6329 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6330 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6331 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6332 appeared instead of "NULL".
6333
633410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6335 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6336 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6337 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6338 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6339 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6340 proceeds).
6341
6342 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6343 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6344 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6345
6346
6347Exim version 4.21
6348-----------------
6349
6350 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6351 or receiver verification errors.
6352
6353 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6354 name.
6355
6356 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6357 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6358 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6359 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6360
6361 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6362 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6363 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6364 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6365 shouldn't happen again.
6366
6367 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6368 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6369 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6370
6371 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6372 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6373
6374 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6375
6376 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6377 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6378
6379 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6380 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6381 RFC.
6382
638310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6384 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6385 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6386
638711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6388 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6389 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6390 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6391
639212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6393 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6394 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6395 to define what should happen).
6396
639713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6398 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6399 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6400
640114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6402
640315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6404
640516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6406 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6407
4c04137d 640817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6409 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6410 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6411 structure in all cases.
6412
6413 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6414 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6415 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6416 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6417
641818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6419 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6420 domain name.
6421
642219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6423 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6424
642520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6426 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6427
642821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6429 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6430 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6431
643222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6433 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6434 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6435
643623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6437 the book and for uniformity.
6438
643924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6440
644125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6442 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6443 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6444 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6445 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6446 non-existent command as the problem.
6447
644826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6449 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6450 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6451
645227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6453
645428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6455 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6456 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6457
645829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6459 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6460 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6461 timestamps using strftime().
6462
646330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6464 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6465
646632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6467 transport-time rewrites.
6468
646933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6470 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6471 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6472 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6473
647434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6475 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6476
647735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6478 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6479 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6480 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6481 comma and a space.
6482
648336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6484 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6485 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6486 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6487 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6488 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6489 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6490
649137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6492 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6493 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6494 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6495 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6496
649738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6498 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6499 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6500 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6501 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6502 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6503 remaining text gets split now.
6504
650539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6506 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6507 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6508 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6509
651040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6511 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6512 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6513 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6514 $return_path.
6515
651641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6517 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6518 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6519 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6520 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6521 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6522 passed through if needed.
6523
652442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6525 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6526 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6527 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6528 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6529 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6530
653143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6532 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6533 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6534 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6535 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6536
653744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6538 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6539 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6540 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6541 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6542
654345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6544 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6545 noticed.
6546
654746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6548 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6549 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6550 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6551 mayhem of various kinds.
6552
655347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6554 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6555 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6556 the right test for positive values.
6557
655848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6559 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6560 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6561 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6562 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6563 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6564 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6565 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6566 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6567 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6568 envelope.
6569
657049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6571 module.
6572
657350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6574 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6575 forbidding it.
6576
657751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6578 the existing equality matching.
6579
658052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6581 dealing with inode numbers.
6582
658353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6584 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6585 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6586
658754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6588 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6589 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6590 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6591 local_scan().
6592
659355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6594 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6595 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6596 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6597 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6598 relay addresses has also been removed.
6599
660056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6601
660257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6603 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6604 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6605
660658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6607 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6608 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6609 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6610 processing applies to CR:
6611
6612 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6613 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6614
6615 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6616 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6617 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6618 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6619
662059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6621 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6622 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6623
662460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6625 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6626 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6627 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6628 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6629 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6630 arisen.
6631
663261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6633 program routers.
6634
663562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6636 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6637 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6638 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6639 adds:
6640
6641 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6642
6643 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6644
6645 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6646
664763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6648 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6649 not considered personal.
6650
665164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6652
665365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6654
665566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6656
665767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6658 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6659 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6660 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6661 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6662 header lines, and spool format errors.
6663
666468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6665 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6666 for more flexibility.
6667
666869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6669 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6670 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6671
667270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6673 Sabourenkov.
6674
667571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6676 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6677 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6678 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6679 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6680 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6681 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6682 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6683 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6684
668572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6686 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6687 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6688 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6689 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6690 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6691 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6692
669373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6694 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6695 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6696
669774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6698 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6699 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6700 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6701 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6702 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6703 instead of killing the process with assert().
6704
670575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6706 than Unicode encoding.
6707
670876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6709 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6710 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6711 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6712
671377. Added process_log_path.
6714
671578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6716 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6717
671879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6719 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6720
672180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6722 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6723 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6724
672581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6726 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6727 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6728 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6729 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6730 were applied:
6731
6732 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6733 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6734 as invalid.
6735
673682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6737 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6738 they will be used during message reception.
6739
6740
6741Exim version 4.20
6742-----------------
6743
6744The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6745
6746****