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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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8Exim version 4.91
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c39c8870 11GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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12 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
13 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
14 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
15 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
16 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 17
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18GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
19 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
20
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21JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
22 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
23 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
24 extant use locations.
25
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26JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
27 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
28
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29JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
30 Previously only the last row was returned.
31
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32JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
33 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
34 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
35 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
36 input.
37
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38JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
39 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
40 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
41 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
42 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
43 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
44 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
45 Main pool for expansions.
46 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
47 active in the testsuite.
48 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
49
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50JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
51 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
52 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
53 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
54 round-robin DNS.
55
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56JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
57 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
58 failure response.
59
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60JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
61 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
62 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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64JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
65 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
66 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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68JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
69 rows affected is given instead).
70
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71JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
72 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
73
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74JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
75 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
76 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
77 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
78 for all multi-message initiating connections.
79
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80JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
81 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
82 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
83
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84JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
85 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
86 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
87 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
88 separate.
89
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90JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
91 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
92 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
93 fake-reject.
94
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95HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
96
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97JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
98 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
99
aab9a843 100PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 101 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 102 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 103
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104JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
105 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
106 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
107 and send a quit.
108
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109JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
110 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
111
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112JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
113 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
114 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
115
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116JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
117 for the build is renamed.
118
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119JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
120 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
121 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
122
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123JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
124 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
125 result replacing the original.
126
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127JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
128 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
129 and the resources needed to be freed.
130
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131JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
132
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133JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
134 was not propagated.
135
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136JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
137 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
138 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
139 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
140
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141JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
142 length value. Previously this would segfault.
143
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144HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
145 newer versions of the scanner.
146
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147JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
148 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
149 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
150 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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151 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
152 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
153 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 154
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155JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
156 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
157 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
158 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
159 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
160 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
161 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
162 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
163 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
164 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
165
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166JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
167 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
168
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169JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
170
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171HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
172 allows proper process termination in container environments.
173
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174JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
175 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
176
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177JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
178 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
179 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
180
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181JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
182 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
183 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 184 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 185
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186JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
187 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
188 would be spooled.
189
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190PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
191 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
192
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193HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
194 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
195 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
196 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
197 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 198
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199JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
200 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
201 lines.
202
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206
207JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
208 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
209 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
210 pairs of long lines into single ones.
211
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212PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
213 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
214
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215JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
216 This permits better logging.
217
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218JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
219 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
220 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
221 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
222 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 223 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 224
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225JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
226 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
227 "exiwhat" output.
228
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229PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
230 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
231 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
232
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233JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
234 than 255 are no longer allowed.
235
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236JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
237 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
238 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
239 client, there is no benefit for these.
240 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
241 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
242 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
243 is used (3.2.4 +).
244
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245PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
246 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
247
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248JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
249 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
250 erroneously found still-pending ones.
251
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252JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
253 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
254
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255JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
256 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
257 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
258 signature and again for transmission.
259
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260JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
261 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 262 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 263
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264JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
265 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
266 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
267 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
268 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
269 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
270 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
271
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272JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
273 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
274 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 275 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 276
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277PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
278 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
279 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
280 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
281 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
282 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
283 processing options.
284
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285JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
286 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
287 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
288 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
289 connections.
925ac8e4 290
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291PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
292 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
293 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
294 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
295 versions.
296
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297JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
298 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
299 inaccessible.
300
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301JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
302 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
303 banner-time rejection.
304
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305JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
306 callout/hold.
307
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308PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
309 is the name of a transport.
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310 Fixes bug 2140.
311
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312HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
313
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314JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
315 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
316
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317JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
318 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
319 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
320 during compilation.
321
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322JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
323 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
324 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 325 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 326
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327JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
328 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
329 initial verify call returned a defer.
330
ad1a76fe 331JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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332 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
333
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334JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
335 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
336
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337JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
338 if present. Previously it was ignored.
339
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340JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
341 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
342
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343JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
344 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
345 extensible.
346
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347PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
348 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
349
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350PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
351 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
352 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
353
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354JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
355 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
356 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
357 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
358
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359HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
360 and confused the parent.
361
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362JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
363 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
364
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365JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
366 for log purposes.
367
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368JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
369 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
370 out-of-order delivery.
371
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372JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
373 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
374 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
375 error for the HELO.
376
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377JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
378 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
379 desynchronisation.
380
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381JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
382 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
383 one run was done. Bug 2189.
384
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385JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
386 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
387 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
388 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
389 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
390 message is still "Temporary local problem".
391
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392JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
393 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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394 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
395
396HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
397 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
398 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 399
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400JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
401 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
402 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
403 though a different problem.
404
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9427e879 409JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 410 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 411
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412JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
413
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414PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
415 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
416
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417JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
418 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
419
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420JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
421 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
422 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
423 before acknowledging the chunk.
424
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425PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
426 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
427 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
428
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429JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
430 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
431 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
432 should.
433
434JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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435 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
436 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 438JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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439 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
440
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441JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
442 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
443 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
444 body hash calculated value.
445
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446JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
447 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
448 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
449
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450JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
451
452JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
453 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
454
455JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
456 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
457 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
458
459JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
460 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
461 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
462 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
463 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
464 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
465
466JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
467 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
468 past that check, despite the cost.
469
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470JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
471 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
472 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
473
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474PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
475 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
476 TLS library to consume.
477
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478PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
479
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480PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
481
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482JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
483 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
484 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
485 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
486 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
487 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
488 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
489
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490PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
491
492PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
493
494PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
495 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
496 should be warning-free.
497
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498JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
499
500HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
501 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
502
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503HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
504 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
505 general solution here.
506
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507PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
508 already-broken messages in the queue.
509
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510JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
511
3b1a84c8
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512JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
513
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515Exim version 4.88
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518JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
519 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 520
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521JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
522 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
523 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
524
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525JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
526 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
527 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
528 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
529 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
530 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
531 if one fails this test.
532 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
533 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
534
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535JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
536 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
537
23bb6982 538JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 539 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 540
0bd1b1ed 541JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 542 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 543
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544JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
545 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
546
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547JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
548 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
549
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550JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
551
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552JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
553 certificate).
554
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555JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
556 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
557 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
558 connection after a verify cache hit.
559 Do not update it with the verify result either.
560
561JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
562 when routing results in more than one destination address.
563
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564JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
565 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
566 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
567 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
568 when the cutthrough connection is made).
569
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570JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
571 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
572
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573JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
574 Previously they were not counted.
575
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576JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
577 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
578 that needed the lookup.
579
4c04137d 580JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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581 distinguished as "(=".
582
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583JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
584 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
585
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586JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
587
588JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
589 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 590
4c04137d 591JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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592 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
593
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594JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
595 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
596 compatible.
597
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598JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
599 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
600 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
601 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
602
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603JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
604
f59aaaaa 605JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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606 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
607 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 608
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609JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
610 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
611 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
612 be lost.
613
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614JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
615 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
616 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
617 itself :(
618
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619JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
620 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
621 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
622
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623JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
624 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
625 options.
626
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627JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
628
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629PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
630 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
631
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632PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
633 are not in the system include path.
634
ad7fc6eb 635JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 636 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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637 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
638 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 639
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640JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
641 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
642 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
643
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644JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
645
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646HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
647 an incoming connection.
648
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649HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
650 to rspamd.
651
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652HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
653 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 654
87cb4a16 655JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 656 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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657
658
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662JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
663 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
664 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
665 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 666
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667TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
668 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
669
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670TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
671 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
672 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
673 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
674 outgoing I= field.
675
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676JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
677 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
678 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
679 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
680 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
681 check on the next write.
682
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683HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
684 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
685 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
686 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
687 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
688
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689JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
690 mime_regex ACL conditions.
691
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692JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
693 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
694 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
695
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696JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
697 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
698 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
699 an authenticate fail is not an error.
700
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701HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
702 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
703
4c04137d 704JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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705 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
706
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707JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
708 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
709 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
710 distinct.
711
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712JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
713
714JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
715
ec0eb1a3
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716JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
717
41e93589
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718JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
719 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
720
98b98887 721JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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722 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
723
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724JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
725
858e91c2
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726JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
727 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
728
729JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
730
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731JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
732 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
733
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734JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
735
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736JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
737 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 738 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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739 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
740 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
741 they will retry in-clear.
742 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
743 at installation time.
744
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745HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
746 with the $config_file variable.
747
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748JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
749 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
750 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
751 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 752 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 753
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754GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
755 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
756 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
757 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
758 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
759
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760JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
761
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762JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
763 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
764 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
765 list order is no longer honoured.
766
4c04137d 767JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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768 for DKIM processing.
769
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770JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
771 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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773JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
774 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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775 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
776 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 777
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778JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
779 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
780
2d8d625b
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781JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
782 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
783
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784JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
785 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
786
f2f2c91b
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787JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
788
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789JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
790 cached by the daemon.
791
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792JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
793 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
794
379ba7d0
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795JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
796 keys are given for lookup.
797
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798JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
799 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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800 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
801 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 802
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803JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
804 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
805 server-side so match that on older versions.
806
07c73177 807JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 808 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 809 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 810
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811JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
812 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
813
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814JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
815 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
816 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 817 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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818 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
819 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
820 initial truncated version.
821
ab9152ff 822JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 823
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824JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
825
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826JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
827 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
828
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829JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
830
bc3c7bb7 831HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 832
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833JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
834 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
835 induced overflows.
836
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837JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
838 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
839 stage.
840
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841JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
842 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
843
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844JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
845 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
846 former class.
847
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848JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
849 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
850 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
851
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852JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
853 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
854 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
855 extraction. Accept either.
856
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861JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
862 expanded.
863
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864JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
865
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866JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
867 it.
868
01a4a5c5 869JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 870 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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871 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
872 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
873
cb1d7830 874JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 875 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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876 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
877
610ff438 878JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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879 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
880 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
881 TLS connections
610ff438 882
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883JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
884 sites use this now.
885
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886JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
887 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
888 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
889 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
890 have a dsn_lasthop option.
891
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892JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
893 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 894 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 895
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896JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
897
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898JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
899 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
900
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901JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
902 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
903
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904JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
905 /defer_ok option.
906
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907JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
908 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
909
fd4d8871 910JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 911 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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912 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
913
914JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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915 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
916 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 917
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918JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
919 timeout value per server.
920
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921JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
922 now have the list separator specified.
923
8a512ed5 924JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 925 option values.
8a512ed5 926
82c0c8ea 927JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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928 under OpenSSL.
929
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930JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
931
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932JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
933 rather than the verbs used.
934
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935JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
936 from 255 to 1024 chars.
937
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938JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
939
cfab9d68 940HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 941 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 942
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943JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
944 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
945
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946HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
947 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
948
4c04137d 949JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 950
d2a2c69b
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951JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
952
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953JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
954 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 955 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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956 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
957
1f12df4d
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958JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
959
1f155f8e
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960JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
961 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
962
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963JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
964 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
965
038597d2
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966JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
967
474f71bf
JH
968JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
969
7137ca4b
JH
970JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
971
dcb1095c
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972JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
973 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
974
2f460950
JH
975JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
976 added for tls authenticator.
977
2f680c0c
HSHR
978HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
979
9c695f6d 980
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981Exim version 4.85
982-----------------
4c57a40e 983
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984TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
985 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
986 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
987 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
988 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
989 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
990 the script parsing/test process like normal.
991
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992TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
993 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
994 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
995 function when detected.
996
a9b8ec8b
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997JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
998 cause callback expansion.
999
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1000TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1001 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1002 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1003 instead of bool when processing it.
1004
0f06b4f2 1005JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1006 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1007
be36e572
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1008JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1009
ac4ef9bd
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1010JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1011
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1012TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1013
c713ca4b
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1014TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1015 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1016
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1017JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1018 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1019 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1020 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1021 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1022 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1023
8bc732e8
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1024JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1025 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1026 exceeded it.
1027
a7fec7a7
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1028JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1029 version 3.3.6 or later.
1030
4c04137d 1031JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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1032 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1033 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1034 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1035 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1036 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1037 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1038
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1039TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1040 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1041
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1042JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1043 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1044 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1045 matches.
1046
e9477a08
JH
1047JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1048 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1049 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1050
ad4c5ff9
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1051JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1052 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1053
1054JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1055 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1056 syntax errors.
1057
3394b36a 1058JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1059
1060JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1061 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1062
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1063TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1064 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1065 tarball.
1066
ad4c5ff9
JH
1067JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1068
4c04137d 1069JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1070 Bug 1561.
1071
1072JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1073 output list separator was used.
1074
8bc732e8 1075
1f0ebb98
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1076Exim version 4.84
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1078TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1079 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1080 return.
1f0ebb98 1081
a612424f 1082JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1083 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1084
1085JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1086
1087TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1088 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1089
1f0ebb98 1090
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1091Exim version 4.83
1092-----------------
1093
1094TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1095
1096 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1097 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1098 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1099 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1100 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1101 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1102
7245734e
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1103TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1104 utilities have not been installed.
1105
fd5dad68
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1106JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1107 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1108
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1109TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1110 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1111
a3c86431
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1112TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1113 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1114 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1115 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1116
aa26e137
JH
1117JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1118
5a1b8443
WB
1119TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1120 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1121
72c9e342
PP
1122PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1123 not dns_use_dnssec.
1124
76f44207
WB
1125JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1126
770747fd
MFM
1127TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1128 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1129 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1130
8ddef691 1131TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1132 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1133 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1134 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1135 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1136 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1137
b9c2e32f
AR
1138JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1139
e45a1c37
JH
1140JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1141 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1142
67d81c10
JH
1143JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1144 failed delivery.
1145
b1f8e4f8
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1146JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1147
511a6c14 1148JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1149
1150JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1151 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1152
51c7471d
JH
1153JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1154 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1155
3695be34
TL
1156TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1157
1e06383a
TL
1158JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1159
76146973
JH
1160JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1161 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1162
1163 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1164 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1165 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1166
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1167TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1168 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1169 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1170 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1171
35aba663
JH
1172JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1173
8c51eead 1174JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1175 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1176 lookup).
8c51eead 1177
deae092e
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1178TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1179 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1180 Schlichting.
35aba663 1181
fd3b6a4a 1182JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1183 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1184
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1185TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1186 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1187
2b4a568d
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1188JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1189
d2af03f4
HS
1190TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1191 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1192 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1193
9d1c15ef
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1194JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1195 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1196
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1197JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1198 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1199 hosts_request_ocsp.
1200
ed3bba5f 1201JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1202 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1203 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1204
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1205JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1206
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1207TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1208 Christian Aistleitner.
1209
f2de3a33
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1210JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1211
6eb02f88
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1212TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1213 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1214
00bff6f6
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1215JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1216 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1217
071c51f7
JH
1218JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1219 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1220
a6d4c44e
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1221TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1222 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1223
3ae173e7
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1224TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1225 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1226
c13d09b8
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1227TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1228 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1229 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1230
0df4ab80
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1231JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1232
66be95e0
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1233PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1234 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1235 Jasper Wallace.
1236
1bd0d12b
JH
1237JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1238
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1239TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1240 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1241 CVE-2014-2972
1242
fd3b6a4a 1243
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1246
1247PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1248
12f69989
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1249PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1250 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1251
54c90be1
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1252PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1253 by GnuTLS.
1254
1f4a55da
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1255PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1256 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1257 routines.
1258
13363eba 1259PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1260
66645890 1261PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1262 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1263 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1264 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1265 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1266
a3fb9793 1267PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1268 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1269 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1270 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1271 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1272 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1273
d27f98fe 1274TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1275
6822b909
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1276TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1277
e7568d51
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1278TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1279 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1280
ae0e32ee 1281TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1282 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1283 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1284
1285TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1286
e2658fff
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1287TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1288
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1289TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1290 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1291
976b7e9f
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1292JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1293
be4a1376
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1294JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1295
ec4b68e5
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1296PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1297
d7148a07
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1298NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1299 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1300
585121e2 1301JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1302
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1303PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1304 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1305 function.
a5f239e4 1306
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1307PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1308 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1309
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1310JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1311 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1312 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1313
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1314JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1315
3a796370
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1316JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1317
ea722490 1318JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1319 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1320
b1b05573
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1321JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1322 Bugzilla 884.
1323
362145b5
JH
1324JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1325 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1326
3c0a92dc
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1327JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1328 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1329
6d7c6175
PP
1330PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1331 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1332 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1333
6f123593
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1334JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1335 authenticators.
1336
c8e2fc1e
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1337JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1338 for control.
1339
005ac57f
PP
1340PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1341
3f1df0e3
PP
1342PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1343 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1344 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1345 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1346
67bd1ab3
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1347TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1348
1349 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1350 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1351 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1352 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1353 the retry rules.
1354
1355 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1356 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1357 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1358
1359 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1360 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1361 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1362 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1363
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1364 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1365 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1366 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1367 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1368 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1369 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1370 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1371
1372 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1373 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1374
326cdc37
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1375TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1376
1377 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1378
1379 Resent-From: f
1380
1381 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1382 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1383 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1384 username as equal to the username.
1385
1386 This change corrects that bug.
1387
f62514b3
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1388GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1389 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1390 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1391
eb505532
TF
1392TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1393
14c7b357
PP
1394PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1395 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1396 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1397 NULL dereference and crash.
1398
94eaf700
PP
1399JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1400
6f5a440a
PP
1401PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1402 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1403 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1404
514ee161
SC
1405SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1406
fd98a5c6
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1407JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1408 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1409 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1410 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1411 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1412 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1413 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1414 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1415 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1416 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1417 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1418
035c7f1e
PP
1419PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1420 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1421
ff284120
PP
1422PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1423 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1424 Bugzilla 880.
1425
26e72755
PP
1426PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1427 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1428 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1429 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1430 an empty string is now equivalent.
1431
0fbd9bff
PP
1432PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1433 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1434 not performing validation itself.
1435
700d22f3
PP
1436PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1437 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1438
fcc8e047
JH
1439JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1440 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1441
4c04137d 1442TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1443
8c020188
PP
1444PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1445 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1446 other false fix of the same issue.
1447 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1448 Bugzilla 1363.
1449
d13cdd30
PP
1450PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1451 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1452
e2fbf4a2
PP
1453PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1454 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1455 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1456
f4c1088b
PP
1457PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1458 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1459 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1460
c5c2182f
PP
1461TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1462
73431ca9
JH
1463JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1464
2d07a215
TL
1465TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1466 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1467
a30a8861
TL
1468TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1469 Alexander Miroch.
1470
33382dd9
TL
1471TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1472 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1473 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1474 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1475 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1476
046172e6
TL
1477TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1478 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1479
581d7bee 1480TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1481 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1482 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1483
1484TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1485 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1486 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1487 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1488
237b2cf2
TL
1489TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1490
9fc5a352
TL
1491TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1492 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1493 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1494
b10e4ec2
TL
1495TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1496
e2cebd74
TL
1497TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1498 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1499 interaction.
1500
1501TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1502 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1503
2519e60d
TL
1504TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1505 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1506
e78e6ecf 1507
4263f395
PP
1508Exim version 4.80.1
1509-------------------
1510
1511PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1512 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1513 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1514
ea722490 1515
b1770b6e 1516Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1517-----------------
1518
1519PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1520 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1521 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1522
23c7e742
NM
1523NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1524
b322aac8
NM
1525NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1526 improved.
1527
4a891427
NM
1528NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1529
c1e794ba 1530PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1531
97753960
PP
1532PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1533
1534PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1535 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1536
df6303fa
PP
1537PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1538 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1539
7e6a8985
PP
1540PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1541 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1542
f1e05cc7 1543PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1544 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1545 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1546
4c287009
PP
1547PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1548
b98bb9ac
PP
1549PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1550 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1551
4a6a987a
PP
1552PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1553
c45dd180 1554PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1555
7db8d074
PP
1556PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1557 non-compliant senders.
1558 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1559
eae0036b 1560NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1561 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1562 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1563
dec5017e
PP
1564PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1565 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1566 in spool file corruption.
1567
c80c5570
PP
1568PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1569 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1570 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1571 "Got SSL error 2".
1572
076b11e2
PP
1573TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1574 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1575 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1576
5407bfff
JH
1577JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1578 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1579
9e45c72b
PP
1580JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1581
e74376d8
PP
1582PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1583 diagnostics.
1584 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1585
4c04137d 1586PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1587 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1588 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1589
7be682ca
PP
1590PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1591 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1592 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1593 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1594
ef840681
PP
1595PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1596 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1597
5bfb4cdf
PP
1598PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1599 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1600 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1601 resolver implementation change.
1602
c6e95d22
PP
1603PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1604 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1605
9cbad13b
PP
1606PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1607
9ee44efb
PP
1608PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1609
6a6084f8
PP
1610PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1611 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1612
12dd53c7
PP
1613PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1614 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1615
9e45c72b 1616JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1617 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1618
17c76198
PP
1619PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1620 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1621 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1622 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1623 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1624
53947857 1625PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1626
eae0036b 1627PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1628 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1629 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1630
9e45c72b 1631JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1632
7390e768
PP
1633PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1634 read-only, out of scope).
1635 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1636
08488c86
PP
1637PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1638 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1639 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1640 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1641
6475bd82
PP
1642PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1643
81f91683
PP
1644PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1645 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1646 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1647 real issues in debug logging.
1648
5779e6aa
PP
1649PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1650 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1651
3375e053
PP
1652PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1653 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1654 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1655
1656PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1657 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1658 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1659 problems.
3375e053 1660
9d26b8c0
PP
1661PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1662 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1663
57eb9e91 1664PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1665 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1666 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1667 needs to override this, it can.
1668
16880d1a
PP
1669PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1670 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1671 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1672
a799883d
PP
1673PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1674 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1675 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1676 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1677
3ecab157 1678PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1679
0599f9cf 1680
867fcbf5
PP
1681Exim version 4.77
1682-----------------
1683
1684PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1685 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1686
f1a29782
TF
1687TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1688
ab42bd23
TK
1689TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1690 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1691
0ca0cf52
TF
1692TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1693 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1694
921b12ca
TF
1695TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1696 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1697 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1698
1699 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1700 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1701 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1702 not safe for signals.
1703
1704 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1705 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1706 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1707 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1708 exiwhat.
1709
c99ce5c9
TF
1710TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1711
1712 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1713 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1714 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1715 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1716 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1717
1718 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1719 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1720 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1721 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1722 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1723 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1724
1725 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1726 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1727 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1728 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1729
1730 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1731 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1732 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1733 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1734
1735 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1736 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1737 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1738 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1739 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1740 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1741 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1742 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1743 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1744
1745 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1746 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1747 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1748 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1749
1750 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1751 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1752 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1753 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1754 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1755 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1756 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1757 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1758 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1759 details in the main documentation.
1760
3634fc25
TF
1761TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1762
792e8a19
TF
1763TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1764
5901f0ab
TF
1765TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1766 repository when doing development or release builds.
1767
7f2a2a43
PP
1768PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1769 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1770
061b7ebd
PP
1771PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1772 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1773 Bugzilla 97.
1774
e12f8c32
PP
1775PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1776
9e949f00 1777PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1778 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1779
1780PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1781 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1782
555ae6af 1783PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1784 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1785
1786PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1787 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1788
6f7fe114
PP
1789PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1790 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1791
c566dd90
PP
1792PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1793 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1794 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1795 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1796
d6cc7c78 1797PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1798 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1799 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1800
0d0e4455
PP
1801PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1802
3399bb60 1803PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1804
1805PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1806 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1807
0ca0cf52 1808
10906672
PP
1809Exim version 4.76
1810-----------------
1811
1812PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1813
754a0503
PP
1814PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1815 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1816
c0c7b2da
PP
1817PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1818
e97d1f08
PP
1819PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1820
084c1d8c
PP
1821PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1822 Bugzilla 1098.
1823
4e7ee012
PP
1824PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1825 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1826
c8d52a00
PP
1827TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1828 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1829
54e7ce4a
PP
1830PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1831 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1832
5ee6f336
PP
1833PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1834 Bugzilla 1104.
1835
c8d52a00 1836TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1837 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1838
1839TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1840 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1841 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1842 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1843
1844PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1845 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1846
10906672 1847
aa097c4c
NM
1848Exim version 4.75
1849-----------------
1850
4c04137d 1851NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1852 Bugzilla 1073
1853
7f3d9eff
TF
1854TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1855 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1856 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1857
159f52d2
TF
1858TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1859 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1860
0cc9542a
PP
1861PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1862 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1863 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1864
f7274286
PP
1865PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1866 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1867
7b797365
PP
1868PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1869 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1870
caacae52
NM
1871NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1872 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1873
09dcaba9
NM
1874NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1875 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1876
bc19a55b
PP
1877PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1878 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1879
bd4c9759
NM
1880NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1881 Fixes bug 943.
1882
b72aab72
PP
1883PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1884 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1885
2fe76745
PP
1886PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1887 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1888
76aa570c
PP
1889PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1890 SQL string expansion failure details.
1891 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1892
f1e5fef5
PP
1893PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1894 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1895
4d805ee9
PP
1896PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1897 extern declarations in function scope.
1898 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1899
cd59ab18
PP
1900PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1901 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1902 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1903 a kernel bug).
1904
332f5cf3
PP
1905PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1906 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1907
29cfeb94
PP
1908PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1909 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1910
660242ad
PP
1911PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1912 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1913
bc4bc4c5
PP
1914PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1915 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1916
2e64baa9
NM
1917NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1918 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1919 Dennis Davis.
1920
4c04137d 1921PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1922
6bac1a9a
PP
1923PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1924
552193f0
NM
1925NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1926 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1927
1b587e48
TF
1928TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1929 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1930
aa097c4c 1931
8c07b69f
TF
1932Exim version 4.74
1933-----------------
1934
1935TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1936 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1937
c0ea85ab
TF
1938TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1939 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1940
0761d44e
TF
1941TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1942
0a349494
PP
1943DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1944 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1945 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1946
1947PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1948 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1949 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1950
fea24b2e
PP
1951PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1952 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1953 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1954 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1955
6545de78
PP
1956PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1957 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1958 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1959 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1960
1670ef10
PP
1961PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1962 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1963 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1964 arbitrary files.
1965
c0886197
PP
1966PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1967 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1968
b7487bce
PP
1969PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1970 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1971 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1972 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1973 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1974
8c07b69f 1975
97fd1e48 1976Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1977-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1978
1979PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1980 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1981 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1982
6901c596
PP
1983PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1984 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1985
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1986JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1987
77bb000f
PP
1988PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1989
a29e5231
PP
1990PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1991
ec5a0394 1992PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1993
55c75993
PP
1994PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1995
453a6645 1996PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1997 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1998 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1999 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2000
8544e77a
PP
2001PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2002 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2003 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2004 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2005 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2006
83e029d5
PP
2007PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2008
ed7f7860
PP
2009PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2010
7d9f747b
PP
2011PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2012
4b2241d2
PP
2013PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2014
10385c15
PP
2015PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2016
dbc4b90d
PP
2017PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2018
532be449
PP
2019PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2020
6a8de854 2021PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2022 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2023 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2024
5dc43717
JJ
2025JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2026
2027JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2028 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2029
3346ab01
PP
2030PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2031 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2032
491fab4c
PP
2033PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2034 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2035 Notification from John Horne.
2036
13eb9497
PP
2037PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2038 compatible.
2039
2040PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2041 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2042 it normally works.
2043
7f36d675
DW
2044DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2045 access.
2046
c1d94452
DW
2047DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2048 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2049 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2050
e2f5dc15
DW
2051DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2052 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2053 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2054 configuration file.
2055
cd25e41d
DW
2056DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2057 option (effectively making it always true).
2058
261dc43e
DW
2059DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2060 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2061
fa32850b
DW
2062DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2063 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2064
79d4bc3d
PP
2065PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2066 run-time user, instead of root.
2067
43236f35 2068PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2069 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2070
fb08281f
DW
2071DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2072 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2073 arguments.
3346ab01 2074
74935b98
DW
2075DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2076 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2077 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2078
90b6341f
DW
2079DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2080
57730b52
ML
2081NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2082
66581d1e 2083
465e92cf
JJ
2084Exim version 4.72
2085-----------------
2086
453a6645
PP
2087JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2088 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2089 typos
465e92cf 2090
453a6645
PP
2091JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2092 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2093 (Finput)
edae0343 2094
9bd3e22c
NM
2095NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2096 Patch from Alain Williams
2097
bb576ff7
NM
2098NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2099
5a1a5845
NM
2100NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2101 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2102
981a9fad
NM
2103NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2104 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2105
7fc497ee
NM
2106NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2107
1a41defa
JJ
2108JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2109
a466095c 2110NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2111 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2112
94a6bd0b
NM
2113TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2114
2115TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2116
2117MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2118 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2119 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2120
c1b141a8
NM
2121NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2122 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2123
b26eacf1 2124NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2125 Patch by Simon Arlott
2126
179c5980 2127PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2128 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2129
9bd3e22c 2130
7c6d71af
NM
2131Exim version 4.71
2132-----------------
2133
7d9f747b 2134TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2135
f013fb92
NM
2136NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2137
0eb8eedd
NM
2138NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2139
663ee6d9
NM
2140NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2141
177ebd9b
NM
2142NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2143
7c6d71af 2144
210f147e
NM
2145Exim version 4.70
2146-----------------
2147
cdd3bb85 2148TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2149 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2150
2151TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2152 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2153 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2154
2155TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2156 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2157 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2158
2159TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2160 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2161
210f147e
NM
2162NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2163 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2164 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2165 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2166
deafd5b3
NM
2167NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2168 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2169 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2170
089793a4
TF
2171TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2172
5f16ca82
TF
2173TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2174
dae9d94e 2175NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2176 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2177
7d9f747b 2178NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2179
06864c44
TF
2180TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2181 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2182 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2183 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2184
65a7d8c3 2185NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2186 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2187
23510047 2188TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2189
7d9f747b 2190NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2191
7d8eec3a 2192NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2193 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2194
89dec7b6
TF
2195TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2196 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2197
a99de90c
TF
2198TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2199 that they are available at delivery time.
2200
e2803e40
TF
2201TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2202
7199e1ee
TF
2203TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2204 incoming_port log selectors.
2205
e276e04b
TF
2206TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2207 setting expands to an empty string.
2208
ce552449 2209NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2210 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2211
e765a0f1 2212NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2213 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2214
4f054c63 2215NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2216 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2217
7d9f747b
PP
2218NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2219 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2220
7d9f747b
PP
2221NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2222 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2223
b52bc06e 2224NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2225 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2226
447de4b0
NM
2227NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2228
4c69d561 2229NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2230 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2231
d5c39246 2232NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2233 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2234
0b23848a
TK
2235TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2236
8f3414a1 2237NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2238 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2239
fb6f955d
NM
2240NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2241
2242NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2243
7d9f747b
PP
2244NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2245 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2246
7d9f747b
PP
2247NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2248 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2249
7d9f747b
PP
2250NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2251 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2252
7d9f747b
PP
2253NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2254 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2255
7d9f747b
PP
2256NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2257 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2258
7d9f747b
PP
2259NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2260 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2261
7d9f747b
PP
2262NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2263 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2264
7d9f747b 2265NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2266 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2267
7d9f747b 2268NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2269
7d9f747b
PP
2270NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2271 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2272
7d9f747b 2273NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2274
7d9f747b 2275NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2276
7d9f747b 2277NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2278
7d9f747b 2279NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2280
17792b53 2281NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2282 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2283
7d9f747b
PP
2284NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2285 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2286
91576cec 2287NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2288 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2289
7d9f747b
PP
2290NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2291 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2292
7d9f747b 2293NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2294
7d9f747b 2295NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2296
7d9f747b 2297NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2298
7d9f747b 2299NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2300
deafd5b3 2301
47db1125
NM
2302Exim version 4.69
2303-----------------
2304
4b3504d0
TK
2305TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2306 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2307 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2308
2309 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2310 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2311 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2312 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2313 build errors in sieve.c.
2314
81ea09ca
NM
2315NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2316 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2317 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2318
f13cddcb
SC
2319SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2320
7d9f747b 2321NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2322
7d9f747b 2323NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2324
7d9f747b 2325NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2326
2327
eb4c0de6
PH
2328Exim version 4.68
2329-----------------
2330
2331PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2332
6a3bceb1
PH
2333PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2334 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2335 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2336 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2337 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2338 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2339 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2340 for iplsearch lookups.
2341
2342 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2343 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2344 previously such lookups could never work.
2345
4c04137d 2346 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2347 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2348 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2349
2e30fa9d
TK
2350TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2351 version.
2352
0806a9c5
MH
2353MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2354 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2355 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2356 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2357 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2358 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2359
ae276964
TK
2360TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2361 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2362
0f2cbd1b
MH
2363MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2364 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2365 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2366 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2367 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2368 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2369
2b85bce7
PH
2370PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2371 local_scan API.
2372
93655c46
PH
2373PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2374
6c512171
PH
2375PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2376 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2377 encrypted.
2378
2379PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2380 by clients under certain conditions.
2381
aa6dc513
PH
2382PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2383 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2384
a96603a0
PH
2385PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2386
8f240103
PH
2387PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2388 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2389
2390PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2391
d677b2f2
PH
2392PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2393
d52120f2
PH
2394PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2395
64f2600a
PH
2396PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2397 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2398
8669f003
PH
2399PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2400
a4dc33a8
PH
2401PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2402 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2403
d6a60c0f
PH
2404PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2405
8f128379
PH
2406PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2407
8932dffe
PH
2408PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2409 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2410 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2411 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2412
ddea74fa 2413PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2414 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2415 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2416
ddea74fa 2417PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2418 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2419
ddea74fa
PH
2420PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2421
ce9f225c
PH
2422PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2423
19897d52
PH
2424PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2425
bc64a74d
PH
2426PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2427 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2428 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2429
eb4c0de6 2430
b4ed4da0
PH
2431Exim version 4.67
2432-----------------
2433
22ad45c9
MH
2434MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2435 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2436 Jan Srzednicki.
2437
b4ed4da0
PH
2438PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2439 issue a MAIL command.
2440
431b7361
PH
2441PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2442
2443 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2444
2445 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2446 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2447 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2448 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2449 item. This has been fixed.
2450
2451PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2452 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2453
83da1223
PH
2454PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2455 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2456
54fc8428
PH
2457PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2458 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2459 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2460
34c5e8dd
SC
2461SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2462
bbe15da8
PH
2463PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2464 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2465 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2466 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2467 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2468
0e8a9471
MH
2469MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2470 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2471 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2472
f0872424
PH
2473PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2474 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2475 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2476 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2477
b01dd148
PH
2478PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2479
6bf342e1
PH
2480PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2481
273f34d0
PH
2482PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2483 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2484 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2485 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2486 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2487
cf8b11a5
PH
2488PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2489
41c7c167
PH
2490PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2491 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2492 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2493 values).
2494
9c57cbc0
PH
2495PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2496
f3f065bb
PH
2497PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2498
047bdd8c
PH
2499PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2500
0ce9abe6
PH
2501PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2502
0e22dfd1
PH
2503PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2504
4c590bd1
PH
2505PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2506 no_callout_flush is set.
2507
09945f1e
PH
2508PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2509 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2510 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2511 fixed.
2512
c51b8e75
PH
2513PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2514
e28326d8 2515PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2516 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2517 other ACL rejections are.
2518
75b1493f
PH
2519PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2520 with slight modification.
2521
7c5214ec
PH
2522PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2523 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2524
4311097e
PH
2525PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2526 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2527 connection.
2528
29f89cad
PH
2529PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2530 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2531
5e687460
SC
2532SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2533
c3611384
PH
2534PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2535 expansion side effects.
2536
5a11a7b4
PH
2537PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2538 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2539 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2540 be the same.
2541
0e20aff9
MH
2542MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2543 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2544 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2545
ca86f471
PH
2546PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2547 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2548 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2549 were accidentally chopped off.
2550
a14e5636
PH
2551PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2552 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2553 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2554 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2555 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2556 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2557 pipelining has not been advertised.
2558
ec95d1a6
PH
2559PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2560
42855d71
PH
2561PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2562 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2563 This has been fixed.
2564
57c2c631
PH
2565PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2566 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2567 reported on Solaris.
2568
58c01c94
PH
2569PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2570 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2571 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2572 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2573 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2574 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2575 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2576
dee5a20a
PH
2577PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2578 cpus.
2579
d2ee6114
PH
2580PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2581
b2d5182b
PH
2582PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2583
79749a79
PH
2584PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2585 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2586 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2587 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2588 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2589 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2590
c456d9bb
PH
2591PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2592 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2593 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2594 host_all_ignored option.
2595
cd9868ec
PH
2596PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2597 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2598 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2599 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2600 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2601 is what is supposed to happen).
2602
ebeaf996
PH
2603PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2604 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2605 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2606 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2607 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2608 uses the Exim user.
2609
2679d413
PH
2610PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2611 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2612 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2613 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2614 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2615 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2616 users.
2617
84024b72
PH
2618PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2619
8005d38e
SC
2620SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2621 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2622 (Jez Hancock).
2623 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2624 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2625
3298c6c6
SC
2626SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2627
a43a27c5
PH
2628PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2629
58eb016e 2630PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2631 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2632 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2633 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2634 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2635 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2636 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2637 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2638 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2639 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2640 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2641
b43a74ea
PH
2642PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2643 advertised in response to EHLO.
2644
b4ed4da0 2645
5dd1517f
PH
2646Exim version 4.66
2647-----------------
2648
2649PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2650 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2651
2652 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2653 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2654
2655 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2656 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2657 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2658
2659 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2660 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2661 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2662 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2663 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2664
2665
93cfa765
TK
2666Exim version 4.65
2667-----------------
2668
2669TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2670 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2671 versions. (#438)
2672
d6066548
MH
2673MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2674 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2675 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2676
4362ff0d
PH
2677PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2678 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2679 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2680 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2681 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2682 rather than extend the field.
2683
93cfa765 2684
944e9e9c
TF
2685Exim version 4.64
2686-----------------
aa41d2de 2687
21d74bd9
TK
2688TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2689 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2690 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2691 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2692 these files.
2693
2694TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2695 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2696 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2697
2698TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2699 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2700 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2701
2702TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2703 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2704 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2705 in the field name.
2706
2b1c6e3a
PH
2707PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2708 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2709 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2710 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2711 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2712 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2713 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2714 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2715 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2716 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2717 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2718
1f872c80
PH
2719PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2720 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2721
2722PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2723 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2724 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2725 ignores EPIPE as well.
2726
d203e649
PH
2727PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2728 (quoted-printable decoding).
2729
cc2ed8f7 2730PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2731 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2732
ddfcd446
PH
2733PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2734
d45b1de8
PH
2735PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2736
2737PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2738
38a0a95f 2739PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2740 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2741
a2405d83
JJ
2742JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2743 in 4.64-PH/09.
2744
2745JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2746 miscellaneous code fixes
2747
6ea85e9a
PH
2748PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2749 rejections.
2750
26da7e20
PH
2751PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2752 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2753 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2754 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2755 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2756 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2757 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2758 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2759
14aa5a05 2760PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2761 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2762 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2763 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2764 function.
2765 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2766 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2767 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2768 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2769 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2770 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2771 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2772 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2773 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2774
ff75a1f7
PH
2775PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2776 decoding.
2777
e6f6568e
PH
2778PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2779 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2780 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2781 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2782 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2783 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2784 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2785 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2786
d6f6e0dc
PH
2787PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2788 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2789 list.
2790
322050c2
PH
2791PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2792 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2793 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2794 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2795 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2796 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2797 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2798 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2799 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2800 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2801 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2802 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2803 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2804
08955dd3
PH
2805PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2806 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2807 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2808 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2809 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2810 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2811 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2812
1eccaa59
PH
2813PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2814 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2815 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2816 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2817 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2818 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2819 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2820 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2821 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2822 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2823
602e59e5
PH
2824PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2825 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2826 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2827 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2828 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2829
411ef850
PH
2830PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2831 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2832 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2833 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2834 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2835 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2836 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2837
7befa435
PH
2838PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2839 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2840 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2841 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2842 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2843 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2844 been verified.
2845
48da4259 2846PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2847 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2848 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2849 and authorization.)
2850
48da4259
PH
2851PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2852 if any retry times were supplied.
2853
d1d5595c
PH
2854PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2855 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2856 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2857
0ef732d9
PH
2858PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2859
328895cc
PH
2860PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2861
fd700877
PH
2862PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2863 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2864 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2865 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2866 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2867 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2868
8dce1a6f
PH
2869PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2870 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2871
17af4a17
PH
2872PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2873 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2874 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2875
2876PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2877 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2878 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2879 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2880 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2881 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2882 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2883 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2884 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2885
2886 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2887 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2888 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2889 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2890 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2891 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2892 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2893 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2894 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2895
2896 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2897 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2898 hammering the server.
2899
c1114884
PH
2900PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2901 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2902
7a0743eb
PH
2903PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2904
0d85fa3f
PH
2905PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2906 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2907 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2908
1bf43b78
PH
2909PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2910 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2911 one case where this was not true.
2912
520de300
PH
2913PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2914 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2915 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2916 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2917 fails.
2918
48c7f9e2
PH
2919PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2920 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2921 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2922 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2923 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2924 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2925 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2926 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2927 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2928 smtp transport.
2929
99ea1c86
PH
2930PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2931 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2932 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2933 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2934
a2042e78
PH
2935PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2936 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2937
4fbcfc2e
PH
2938PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2939 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2940 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2941
aa41d2de
PH
2942PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2943
af561417
PH
2944PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2945
3cc66b45
PH
2946PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2947
194cc0e4
PH
2948PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2949 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2950 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2951 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2952
a401ddaa
PH
2953PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2954 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2955
4e88a19f
PH
2956PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2957 be meaningful with "accept".
2958
d7d7b289
SC
2959SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2960 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2961
2962SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2963 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2964 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2965
2966SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2967 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2968 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2969 there is data to show.
2970 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2971
2972SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2973 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2974 as well as the number of messages.
2975
2976SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2977 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2978 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2979
2980SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2981 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2982 have a flag are now skipped.
2983
2984SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2985 Added the -emptyok flag.
2986
2987SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2988 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2989
0ea2a468
JJ
2990JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2991 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2992 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2993
2994JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2995 match 4.64-PH/13
2996
2997JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2998 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2999
3000JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3001
3002JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3003 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3004
8a10f5a4
PH
3005PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3006
30e18802
PH
3007PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3008 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3009 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3010 contravention of the specifications.
3011
55728a4f
PH
3012PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3013 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3014 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3015
d7837193
PH
3016PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3017 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3018 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3019
87054a31
PH
3020PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3021
ea2c01d2
MH
3022MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3023 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3024 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3025 some point in the past.
3026
e4fa6968
PH
3027PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3028 transport during callout processing was broken.
3029
56f5d9bd
PH
3030PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3031 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3032
922e1c28
PH
3033PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3034 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3035
21eb6e72
PH
3036PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3037 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3038
a0540757
PH
3039PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3040
944e9e9c 3041
478be7b0
SC
3042Exim version 4.63
3043-----------------
3044
3045SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3046 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3047
3048SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3049 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3050 there is data to show.
3051 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3052
3053SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3054 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3055
2b965a65
TF
3056TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3057 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3058
45b91596
PH
3059TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3060 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3061
c59f5781
TF
3062TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3063 submissions from trusted users.
3064
90fc3069
TF
3065TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3066 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3067
6083aca0
TF
3068TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3069 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3070 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3071 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3072 there is now a framework to start from.
3073
765b530f
PH
3074PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3075 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3076 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3077
4e167a8c
PH
3078PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3079
4608d683
PH
3080PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3081
b8dc3e4a
PH
3082PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3083
5418e93b
PH
3084PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3085 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3086 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3087
b4a9bda2
PH
3088PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3089 libradius.
3090
45b91596
PH
3091PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3092 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3093 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3094
5547e2c5
PH
3095PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3096 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3097 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3098 its arguments.
3099
dbcef0ea
PH
3100PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3101 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3102 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3103 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3104 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3105
25257489
PH
3106PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3107 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3108
c816d124
PH
3109PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3110
a9ccd69a
PH
3111PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3112 operations in malware.c.
3113
75fa1910
PH
3114PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3115 signatures.
3116
a7d7aa58
PH
3117PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3118 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3119 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3120 all.
3121
42119b09
PH
3122PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3123 statements to "add_header".
3124
41609df5
PH
3125PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3126 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3127
a5bd321b
PH
3128PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3129 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3130 latter.
3131
e85a7ad5 3132PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3133 so that it is now:
3134
e85a7ad5
PH
3135 ${if or { \
3136 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3137 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3138 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3139 }{no}{yes}}
3140
e85a7ad5
PH
3141 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3142 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3143
d8fe1c03
PH
3144PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3145 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3146
16282d2b
PH
3147PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3148 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3149 any possible encoding problems.
3150
35d40a98
PH
3151PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3152 but not after initializing Perl.
3153
034d99ab
PH
3154PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3155 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3156 apparently, which is not desirable.
3157
6ec97b1b
PH
3158PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3159 queries.
3160
e22ca4ac
JJ
3161JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3162 --not options
3163
3164JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3165
33d73e3b
PH
3166PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3167 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3168 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3169 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3170
9ecb03f3
PH
3171PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3172 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3173 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3174
084efe8d
PH
3175PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3176 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3177 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3178 0.12.
3179
366fc9f0
PH
3180PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3181 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3182 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3183 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3184 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3185
c59f5781 3186
c887c79e
TF
3187Exim version 4.62
3188-----------------
3189
3190TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3191 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3192
1cce3af8
PH
3193PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3194 patch).
3195
afb3eaaf
PH
3196PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3197 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3198 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3199 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3200 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3201 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3202 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3203 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3204 451 error is used.
3205
e173618b
PH
3206PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3207
dd16e114
PH
3208PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3209 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3210 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3211
f7fd3850
PH
3212PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3213 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3214 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3215 odd errors.
3216
d87df92c
PH
3217PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3218 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3219
7e9f683d
PH
3220PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3221 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3222 option (which defaults to 0600).
3223
bfad5236
PH
3224PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3225
01c490df
PH
3226PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3227 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3228 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3229 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3230 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3231 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3232 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3233
d6629cdc
PH
3234PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3235
1cce3af8 3236
214e2000
PH
3237Exim version 4.61
3238-----------------
3239
3240PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3241 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3242 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3243 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3244 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3245 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3246 addresses as local.
3247
f9daeae0
PH
3248PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3249 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3250
7e66e54d
PH
3251PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3252
c8ea1597
PH
3253PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3254 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3255 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3256 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3257 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3258 grumble.
3259
911f6fde
PH
3260PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3261 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3262
47ca6d6c
PH
3263PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3264 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3265 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3266 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3267 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3268
ed0e9820
PH
3269PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3270 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3271 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3272 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3273
eff37e47
PH
3274PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3275 be the same on different OS.
3276
1921d2ea
PH
3277PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3278 testing.
3279
b3f69ca8
JJ
3280JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3281 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3282
3283JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3284 in 4.61-PH/06
3285
424a1c63
PH
3286PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3287 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3288 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3289 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3290 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3291 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3292 bounce message.
3293
7a100415
PH
3294PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3295 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3296 when Exim was called.
3297
19b9dc85
PH
3298PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3299 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3300
309bd837
PH
3301PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3302 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3303 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3304 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3305
59e82a2a
PH
3306PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3307 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3308 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3309 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3310 changes:
3311
3312 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3313 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3314 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3315
3316 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3317 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3318 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3319
9edc04ce
PH
3320PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3321 feature).
3322
1349e1e5
PH
3323PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3324 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3325 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3326 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3327 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3328 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3329 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3330 values from the SRV records were lost.
3331
ea49d0e1
PH
3332PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3333 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3334 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3335
064a94c9
PH
3336PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3337 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3338 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3339
727071f8
PH
3340PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3341 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3342 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3343 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3344 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3345 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3346 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3347 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3348 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3349 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3350
f78eb7c6
PH
3351PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3352 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3353 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3354
21c28500
PH
3355PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3356 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3357
3358PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3359 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3360 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3361 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3362 is given.
3363
1688f43b
PH
3364PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3365 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3366 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3367
3368PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3369 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3370 PH/23 above applies.
3371
9675b384
PH
3372PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3373 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3374 (for which there is an explicit test).
3375
6a3f1455
PH
3376PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3377
dac79d3e
PH
3378PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3379 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3380 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3381 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3382 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3383
5977a0b3
PH
3384PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3385 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3386 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3387 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3388
c91535f3
PH
3389PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3390 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3391 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3392
0d46a8c8
PH
3393PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3394
278c6e6c
PH
3395PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3396
2cbb4081
PH
3397PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3398 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3399 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3400
3eef829e
PH
3401PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3402 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3403 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3404 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3405 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3406
1ab95fa6
PH
3407PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3408 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3409 the message gets confusing).
3410
230205fc
PH
3411PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3412 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3413 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3414 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3415
75e0e026
PH
3416PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3417 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3418 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3419 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3420 same order.
3421
3422PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3423 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3424 the different processes.
3425
145396a6
PH
3426PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3427
3cd34f13
PH
3428PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3429
11121d3d
JJ
3430JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3431 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3432
3433JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3434 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3435
3436JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3437 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3438 messages matching specified criteria.
3439
8def5aaf
PH
3440PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3441
929ba01c
PH
3442PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3443 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3444
2632889e
PH
3445PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3446 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3447 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3448 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3449 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3450 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3451 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3452 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3453 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3454 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3455
944a9c55
PH
3456PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3457 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3458 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3459
4a23603b
PH
3460PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3461
4730f942
PH
3462PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3463 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3464 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3465 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3466 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3467 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3468 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3469 the variable.
3470
30dba1e6
PH
3471PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3472 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3473
382afc6b
PH
3474PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3475
a86229cf
PH
3476PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3477
50c99ba6
PH
3478PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3479
d35e429d
PH
3480PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3481 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3482 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3483 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3484 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3485 size of the count of files.
3486
f90d018c
PH
3487PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3488
75def545
PH
3489PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3490 used in LMTP mode:
3491
3492 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3493 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3494 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3495 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3496
3497 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3498 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3499 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3500
3501PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3502 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3503 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3504 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3505 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3506
c46782ef
PH
3507PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3508 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3509
71fafd95
PH
3510PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3511 will now be deprecated.
3512
2c5db4fd
PH
3513PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3514
9cf6b11a
JJ
3515JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3516 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3517 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3518
3519JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3520 with very large, slow to parse queues
3521
3522JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3523
3524JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3525
898d150f
PH
3526PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3527 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3528 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3529 SMTP output lines.
3530
46218253
PH
3531PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3532 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3533 Sieve code now uses this.
3534
e97957bc
PH
3535PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3536 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3537
81e509d7
PH
3538PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3539 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3540
3d240ff7
PH
3541PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3542
b37c4101
PH
3543PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3544 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3545 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3546 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3547 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3548
79378e0f
PH
3549PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3550 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3551 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3552 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3553
e49c7bb4
PH
3554PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3555
d114ec46
PH
3556PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3557
f3d7df6c
PH
3558PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3559 is preferred over IPv4.
3560
715ab376
PH
3561PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3562 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3563 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3564 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3565 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3566 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3567 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3568
6b31b150
PH
3569PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3570 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3571 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3572
3573PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3574
d515a917
PH
3575PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3576 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3577 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3578 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3579 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3580 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3581 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3582 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3583 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3584 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3585 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3586
9b8fadde
PH
3587PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3588 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3589 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3590
214e2000 3591
5de37277
PH
3592Exim version 4.60
3593-----------------
3594
cc38ddbf
PH
3595PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3596
3597 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3598 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3599
3600 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3601 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3602 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3603
72fdd6ae
PH
3604PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3605
3606 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3607 not a single digit.
3608
3609 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3610 string.
3611
3612 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3613 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3614 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3615 silly things.
3616
3617 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3618 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3619
3620 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3621 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3622
cb741023
PH
3623PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3624 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3625 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3626
f174f16e
PH
3627PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3628 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3629
c25242d7
PH
3630PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3631 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3632
3633 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3634
3635 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3636 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3637 this:
3638
3639 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3640
82c19f95
PH
3641PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3642 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3643 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3644 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3645 identical. For example:
3646
3647 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3648
3649 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3650 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3651 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3652
d7ffbc12
PH
3653PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3654 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3655 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3656 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3657
9f526266
PH
3658PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3659 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3660 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3661 message.
3662
87fcc8b9
PH
3663PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3664
3665 o fixes some comments
3666 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3667 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3668 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3669 and documents the missing references header update
3670
3671 and most important:
3672
3673 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3674 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3675 result)
3676
456682f5
PH
3677PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3678 Electronic Mail") by including:
3679
3680 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3681
3682 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3683 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3684 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3685 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3686 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3687
3688 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3689
3690 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3691
3692 The auto-replied keyword:
3693
3694 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3695 message by an automatic process,
3696
3697 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3698
3699 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3700 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3701
3702 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3703 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3704 other messages.
3705
3e46c1aa
PH
3706PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3707 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3708
49826d12
PH
3709PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3710
eba0c039
PH
3711PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3712 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3713 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3714
a0d6ba8a
PH
3715PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3716 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3717 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3718
f0917727
PH
3719PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3720 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3721 and treats the condition as false.
3722
096fee00
PH
3723PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3724
024bd3c2
PH
3725PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3726 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3727 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3728 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3729 not changing the active code.
3730
3731 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3732 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3733
3734 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3735 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3736
df199fec
PH
3737PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3738 (Bugzilla #53).
3739
d27f1df3
PH
3740PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3741 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3742 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3743 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3744 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3745 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3746 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3747 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3748 the text comparison.
3749
96776534
PH
3750PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3751 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3752 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3753 The same fix has been applied.
3754
5de37277 3755
9a799bc0
PH
3756Exim version 4.54
3757-----------------
3758
3759PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3760 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3761 It now does.
3762
99a4b039
PH
3763PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3764 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3765
3766PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3767
4b233853
PH
3768PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3769 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3770 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3771 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3772 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3773
8857ccfd
PH
3774TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3775 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3776 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3777 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3778 or /domain=).
3779
433a2980
PH
3780PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3781 testing suite.
3782
3e46c1aa 3783
9a799bc0 3784
e3a311ba
TK
3785Exim version 4.53
3786-----------------
3787
3788TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3789 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3790
13b685f9
PH
3791PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3792
395ff96d
PH
3793PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3794
5b68f6e4
PH
3795PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3796 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3797 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3798
1ab52c69
PH
3799PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3800 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3801 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3802
b07e6aa3
PH
3803PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3804 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3805 operating systems.
3806
254e032f
PH
3807PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3808 ${stat: expansion item.
3809
3af76a81
PH
3810PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3811 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3812
2548ba04
PH
3813PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3814 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3815 file for comments.
3816
b6c6011d
PH
3817PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3818
cf39cf57
PH
3819PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3820 setting.
3821
f1513293
PH
3822PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3823 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3824
727549a4
PH
3825TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3826
af46795e
PH
3827PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3828 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3829 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3830 the end of the subprocess.
3831
d7b47fd0
PH
3832PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3833 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3834 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3835 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3836 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3837
ee744174
JJ
3838JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3839
b582ab87
PH
3840TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3841
41a13e0a
PH
3842PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3843 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3844
f625cc5a
PH
3845PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3846
3847PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3848
21f7af35
PH
3849PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3850 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3851 HP-UX compiler.
3852
31480e42
PH
3853PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3854
2d280592
PH
3855PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3856 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3857 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3858
7cd1141b
PH
3859PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3860 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3861
3862PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3863 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3864
750af86e
PH
3865PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3866 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3867
3868 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3869 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3870
3871 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3872 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3873 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3874 contributed by a Radius user.
3875
3876PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3877 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3878
4304270b
TK
3879TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3880 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3881
750af86e
PH
3882PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3883 available.
3884
64ffc24f
PH
3885PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3886 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3887 received.
3888
5dd9625b
PH
3889PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3890 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3891 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3892 header lines when this was not necessary.
3893
5591031b
PH
3894PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3895
ba18e66a
PH
3896PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3897 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3898 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3899 exists".
3900
9cec981f
PH
3901PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3902 -bV or -d is used.
3903
aa2b5c79
PH
3904PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3905 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3906 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3907 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3908
48a53b7f
PH
3909PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3910
1c59d63b
PH
3911PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3912
671012da
TK
3913TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3914
1509d3a8
PH
3915PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3916
3917PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3918 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3919 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3920 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3921 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3922 settings.
3923
3924PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3925
2fe1a124
PH
3926PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3927 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3928 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3929 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3930 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3931 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3932 which is clearly wrong.
3933
8800895a
PH
3934PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3935
ccfdb010
PH
3936PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3937 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3938 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3939 subsequently added.
3940
1130bfb0
PH
3941PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3942 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3943
ebcb507f
PH
3944PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3945
c35e155c
PH
3946PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3947 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3948
95d1f782
PH
3949PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3950 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3951
fd6de02e
PH
3952PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3953 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3954
58de37c5
PH
3955PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3956 recipients, not senders.
3957
261cf466
TF
3958TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3959 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3960
3ee512ff
PH
3961PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3962
e08c430f
PH
3963PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3964
bef5a11f
PH
3965PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3966 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3967 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3968 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3969
7546de58
TF
3970TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3971
e5d5a95f
TF
3972TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3973 clock is set back in time.
3974
2e88a017
TF
3975TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3976 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3977
a5f65aa4
TF
3978TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3979 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3980
e7726cbf
PH
3981PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3982 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3983 (see PH/47 above).
3984
a7fdad5b
TF
3985TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3986 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3987 header rewrites.
3988
6af56900
PH
3989PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3990 type ("H").
3991
0925ede6
PH
3992PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3993
66afa403
TF
3994TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3995 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3996 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3997
0154e85a
TF
3998TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3999 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4000 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4001 helo verification defer as a failure.
4002
16f12c76
PH
4003PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4004 actual error message.
4005
bbe902f0 4006
e5a9dba6
PH
4007Exim version 4.52
4008-----------------
4009
4010TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4011
22c3b60b
PH
4012PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4013 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4014 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4015 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4016
06a9b4b5
PH
4017TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4018
c1ac6996
PH
4019PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4020 can still be requested.
4021
9c7a242c
PH
4022PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4023 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4024 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4025 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4026
87ba3f5f
PH
4027TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4028 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4029 circumstances, but probably never did.
4030
4031PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4032 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4033 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4034 in the header line.
4035
29aba418
TF
4036TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4037
fe0dab11
TF
4038TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4039 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4040
11d337a4
TK
4041TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4042
4043TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4044
415c8f3b
PH
4045PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4046 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4047 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4048 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4049 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4050 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4051
958541e9
PH
4052PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4053 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4054 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4055 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4056 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4057 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4058
c206415f
TK
4059TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4060 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4061
2a4be8f9
PH
4062PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4063 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4064
1cba11c5
SC
4065SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4066 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4067
4c04137d 4068SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4069
4070SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4071
4072SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4073
4074SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4075
4076SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4077
4078SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4079
1005d00e
TK
4080TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4081
4082TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4083 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4084 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4085
4086TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4087 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4088 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4089 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4090
9b4768fa
PH
4091PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4092 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4093 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4094
4095PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4096 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4097 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4098 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4099
0d7eb84a
PH
4100PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4101 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4102 to be made).
4103
4104PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4105 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4106 should work with maildirs and everything.
4107
40727bee
TK
4108TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4109 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4110
554d2369
TF
4111TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4112 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4113
1f922db1
PH
4114PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4115 function for BDB 4.3.
4116
ef213c3b
PH
4117PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4118
8ac170f3
PH
4119PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4120 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4121 involved.
4122
b1c749bb
PH
4123PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4124 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4125 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4126 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4127 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4128 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4129
4aac9b49
PH
4130PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4131 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4132 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4133 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4134 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4135 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4136 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4137 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4138
294520c8
TK
4139TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4140 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4141 details.
4142
5bd022fe
PH
4143PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4144 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4145
90e9ce59
PH
4146PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4147 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4148 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4149 test. It is now used for both.
4150
5ea81592
PH
4151PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4152 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4153 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4154 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4155 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4156 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4157
c6c2dc1d
PH
4158PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4159 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4160 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4161 string_vformat().
4162
fffffe4c
PH
4163PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4164 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4165 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4166
9a26b6b2
PH
4167PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4168 experimental DomainKeys support:
4169
4170 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4171 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4172 the control was given.
4173
4174 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4175
4aee0225
PH
4176PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4177
32d668a5
PH
4178PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4179
8187c3f3
PH
4180PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4181 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4182 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4183 db.h files).
4184
ff790e47 4185PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4186 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4187 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4188 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4189 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4190 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4191 course.
ff790e47 4192
5417f6d1
PH
4193PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4194 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4195 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4196 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4197 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4198 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4199
59cf8544
PH
4200PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4201 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4202 do -d+all out of habit.
4203
e7ad8a65
PH
4204PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4205 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4206 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4207
ade42478
PH
4208PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4209 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4210 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4211 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4212 record types that Exim uses.
4213
182ad5cf
PH
4214PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4215 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4216 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4217 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4218 non-existent file that was broken.
4219
b0d9fc80
TK
4220TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4221 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4222
4223TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4224 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4225 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4226
4227TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4228
47c7a64a
PH
4229PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4230 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4231 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4232 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4233 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4234 same time.
4235
a388bce4
SC
4236SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4237 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4238 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4239 at a slight CPU cost.
4240
4241SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4242 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4243
4244SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4245 by Marc Sherman.
4246
0793e4ed
SC
4247SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4248
c58b88df
PH
4249PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4250 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4251
e7ad8a65 4252
7982096b
PH
4253Exim version 4.51
4254-----------------
4255
1a46a8c5
PH
4256TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4257 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4258
2f079f46 4259TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4260
4261TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4262
4263PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4264 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4265
4266PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4267 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4268 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4269 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4270 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4271 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4272 file.
4273
4274PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4275 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4276 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4277 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4278 these two options.
4279
4280PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4281 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4282 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4283 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4284 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4285 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4286 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4287 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4288
4289PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4290 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4291
4292PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4293 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4294 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4295 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4296 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4297 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4298
4299PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4300 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4301 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4302 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4303
4304PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4305 Finch).
4306
4307PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4308 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4309
49c2d5ea
PH
4310PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4311 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4312 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4313 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4314 message.
49c2d5ea 4315
bf759a8b
PH
4316PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4317
83364d30
PH
4318PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4319 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4320
7999bbd7
PH
4321PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4322 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4323 to what was transported.)
4324
7dbf77c9
PH
4325TF/01 Added $received_time.
4326
74e0617f
PH
4327PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4328 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4329 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4330 spamd_address settings.
4331
2f079f46
PH
4332PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4333 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4334 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4335 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4336 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4337
8c841523
PH
4338PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4339
7766a4f0
PH
4340PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4341 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4342 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4343 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4344 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4345
8b417f2c
PH
4346PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4347 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4348
901f42cb
PH
4349PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4350 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4351 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4352 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4353 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4354 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4355 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4356 for failure.
4357
f9b9210e
PH
4358PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4359 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4360 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4361 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4362 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4363 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4364 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4365 "input=".
4366
54cdb463
PH
4367PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4368
cf00dad6
PH
4369PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4370 driver and ACL definitions.
4371
acb1b346
PH
4372PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4373 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4374
c5ddb310
PH
4375PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4376 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4377 understands it better than I do:
4378
4379 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4380 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4381
4382 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4383 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4384 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4385 => three warnings about OTP not working
4386 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4387
4388 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4389 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4390 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4391 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4392 for each call.)
4393 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4394 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4395
4396 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4397 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4398 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4399
31619da6
PH
4400PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4401 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4402 specified.
4403
bebaf0fc
PH
4404PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4405 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4406 "Linux".
4407
475fe28a
PH
4408PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4409 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4410 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4411
4412 warn !verify = sender
4413 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4414
4415 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4416 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4417
7e8bec7a
PH
4418PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4419
4420 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4421 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4422
4423 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4424 nomenclature these days.)
4425
e4a89c47
PH
4426PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4427 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4428
5ca2a9a1
PH
4429PH/30 In these circumstances:
4430 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4431 . First host does not offer TLS;
4432 . First host accepts first address;
4433 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4434 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4435 . Second host accepts second address.
4436 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4437 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4438 address.
7e8bec7a 4439
c688b954
PH
4440PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4441 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4442 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4443 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4444 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4445
fed77020
PH
4446PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4447 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4448
7fe1560f
PH
4449PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4450 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4451
ebb6e6d5
PH
4452PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4453 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4454 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4455
9c4e8f60
PH
4456PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4457 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4458 overlooked.
4459
4460PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4461
d7174846
PH
4462PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4463 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4464 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4465 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4466 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4467 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4468 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4469
4470 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4471 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4472 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4473 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4474 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4475
4476 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4477 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4478 routed further.
4479
cfe75fc3
PH
4480PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4481 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4482 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4483 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4484 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4485 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4486
be22d70e
PH
4487PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4488
0612b098
PH
4489PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4490 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4491 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4492 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4493 printable escape sequences.
4494
2e0c1448
PH
4495PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4496 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4497 body only.
4498
447d236c
PH
4499PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4500 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4501 are as follows:
4502
4503 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4504 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4505 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4506 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4507 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4508
4509 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4510 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4511 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4512
d20976dc
PH
4513PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4514
f656d135
PH
4515PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4516 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4517 play with."
4518
2e2a30b4
PH
4519PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4520 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4521 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4522 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4523 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4524 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4525 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4526 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4527 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4528 the log output.
4529
9176e9f0
PH
4530PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4531 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4532 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4533 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4534 "make".
4535
7982096b 4536
bbe902f0
PH
4537A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4538----------------------------------------
4539
4540Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4541changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4542needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4543in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4544that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4545release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4546from 4.43.
4547
4548I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
45494.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4550those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4551historical information.
4552
4553
f7b63901 4554Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4555-----------------
4556
5fe762f6
PH
4557 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4558
139059f6 4559 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4560 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4561
7086e875
PH
4562 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4563 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4564 place.
4565
35af9f61
PH
4566 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4567 filter fails to execute.
4568
b668c215
PH
4569 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4570 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4571 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4572 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4573 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4574
a494b1e1
PH
4575 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4576
4577 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4578 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4579 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4580 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4581
c5fcb476
PH
4582 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4583 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4584 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4585 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4586 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4587
69358f02
PH
4588 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4589
5be20824
PH
459010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4591
eb2c0248
PH
459211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4593 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4594 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4595 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4596
2a3eea10
PH
459712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4598 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4599 sender verification.
4600
460113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4602 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4603
23c7ff99
PH
460414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4605
4deaf07d
PH
460615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4607 connection timeout.
4608
926e1192
PH
460916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4610 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4611
650edc6f
PH
461217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4613 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4614
2c7db3f5
PH
461518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4616 information about exactly what failed.
4617
3d235903
PH
461819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4619
7c7ad977
PH
462020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4621 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4622 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4623
981756db
PH
462421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4625 It is now set to "smtps".
4626
d4eb88df
PH
462722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4628 ignore_target_hosts.
4629
463023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4631 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4632 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4633 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4634 "[x.x.x.x]".
4635
7d468ab8
PH
463624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4637 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4638 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4639
464025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4641 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4642 wake it up if nothing else does.
4643
62c0818f
PH
464426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4645 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4646 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4647 end up negative.
4648
26034054
PH
464927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4650 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4651
af66f652
PH
465228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4653
90af77f4
PH
465429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4655 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4656 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4657 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4658 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4659 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4660 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4661 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4662
d8ef3577
PH
466330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4664 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4665 than one IP address.
4666
5cb8cbc6
PH
466731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4668 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4669 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4670 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4671
14702f5b
PH
467232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4673 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4674 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4675 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4676 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4677 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4678
063b1e99
PH
467933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4680 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4681 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4682 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4683
652e1b65
PH
468434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4685 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4686 respected.
4687
6f0c9a4f
PH
468835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4689 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4690 $sender_host_address.
4691
33397d19
PH
469236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4693 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4694 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4695 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4696 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4697 very small.
4698
7bb56e1f
PH
469937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4700
4701 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4702 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4703
ea3bc19b
PH
4704 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4705 just the host names, not the priorities.
4706
4707 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4708 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4709 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4710
ea3bc19b 4711 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4712 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4713
0bcb2a0e
PH
471438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4715 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4716 domain.
4717
2ac0e484
PH
471839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4719
4e1fde53
PH
472040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4721 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4722
de365ded
PH
472341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4724 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4725 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4726
f05da2e8
PH
472742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4728
d6453af2
PH
472943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4730
f7b63901
PH
473144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4732
473345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4734 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4735 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4736 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4737 because the tests only now provoked it.
4738
a444213a
PH
473946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4740 (this can affect the format of dates).
4741
0ec020ea
PH
474247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4743 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4744 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4745 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4746
b1206957
PH
474748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4748
474949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4750 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4751 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4752 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4753
26dd5a95
PH
475450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4755 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4756 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4757
343b2385
PH
475851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4759 autoreply.
4760
1c5466b9
PH
476152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4762 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4763 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4764 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4765 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4766 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4767 is going on).
4768
55ee9ee3
PH
476953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4770 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4771 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4772 the line.
4773
d38f8232
PH
477454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4775 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4776 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4777
4778 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4779 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4780 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4781 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4782 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4783 so I produce this patch..."
4784
3295e65b
PH
4785 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4786 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4787 is not defined.
4788
7102e136
PH
478955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4790 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4791 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4792 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4793 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4794
3ca0ba97
PH
479556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4796
c2bcbe20
PH
479757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4798 long debug lines gets shown.
4799
18ce445d
PH
480058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4801 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4802
1f5b4c3d
PH
480359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4804
4805 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4806 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4807 of $primary_hostname.
4808
b975ba52
PH
480960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4810 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4811 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4812 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4813 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4814 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4815 by change 4.50/55 above.
4816
4817 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4818 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4819 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4820 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4821 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4822 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4823 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4824
482561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4826 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4827 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4828 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4829
17ffcae7
PH
483062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4831 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4832
d95f9fdb
PH
483363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4834 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4835 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4836 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4837 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4838
86b8287f
PH
483964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4840 This has been fixed.
4841
60dc5e56
PH
484265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4843 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4844 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4845 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4846 the caching.)
4847
533244af
PH
484866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4849
a5a28604
PH
485067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4851 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4852 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4853 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4854
7e634d24
PH
485568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4856 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4857
3e11c26b
PH
485869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4859 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4860 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4861
6729cf78
PH
486270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4863 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4864 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4865 message there.
4866
00f00ca5
PH
486771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4868 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4869 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4870
c9bdd01c
PH
487172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4872 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4873 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4874 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4875
d43194df
PH
487673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4877 during host lookups.
4878
fe5b5d0b
PH
487974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4880 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4881
4882 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4883
76a2d7ba
PH
488475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4885 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4886 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4887 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4888 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4889 background.
4890
489176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4892 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4893
04f7d5b9
PH
489477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4895 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4896 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4897
bc60667e
PH
489878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4899
bb6e88ff
PH
490079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4901 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4902 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4903 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4904 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4905 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4906 process earlier.
4907
1e70f85b
PH
490880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4909 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4910 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4911 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4912 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4913
491481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4915 tables).
4916
4e01f9d6
PH
491782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4918
1ee1cef2
PH
491983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4920 "vacation" handling.
4921
6e2b4ccc
PH
492284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4923 OS variants using glibc.
4924
8e669ac1
PH
492585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4926
495ae4b0 4927
bbe902f0
PH
4928----------------------------------------------------
4929See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4930----------------------------------------------------
4931
4932
4933Exim version 4.44
4934-----------------
4935
4936 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4937 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4938 transport
4939
4940 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4941 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4942 place.
4943
4944 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4945 filter fails to execute.
4946
4947 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4948 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4949 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4950 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4951 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4952
4953 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4954 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4955 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4956 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4957
4958 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4959 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4960 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4961 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4962 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4963
4964 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4965
4966 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4967 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4968 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4969 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4970
4971 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4972 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4973 sender verification.
4974
497510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4976 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4977
497811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4979 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4980
498112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4982 ignore_target_hosts.
4983
498413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4985 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4986 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4987 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4988 "[x.x.x.x]".
4989
499014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4991 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4992 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4993
499415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4995 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4996 wake it up if nothing else does.
4997
499816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4999 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5000 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5001 end up negative.
5002
500317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5004 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5005
ea3a6f44 500618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5007
500819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5009 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5010 empty pattern.
5011
501220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5013 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5014 one IP address.
5015
ea3a6f44
NM
501621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5017 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5018 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5019 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5020 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5021 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5022
ea3a6f44
NM
502322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5024 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5025 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5026
502723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5028 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5029 $sender_host_address.
5030
503124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5032
ea3a6f44
NM
503325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5034 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5035 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5036
503726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5038 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5039
ea3a6f44
NM
504027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5041 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5042
ea3a6f44
NM
504328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5044 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5045 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5046 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5047
504829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5049 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5050 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5051
ea3a6f44
NM
505230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5053 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5054 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5055 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5056
ea3a6f44
NM
505731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5058 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5059 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5060
ea3a6f44
NM
506131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5062 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5063
ea3a6f44
NM
506432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5065 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5066 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5067 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5068 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5069 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5070 is going on).
bbe902f0 5071
ea3a6f44
NM
507233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5073 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5074 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5075 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5076 CAN-2005-0021
5077
ea3a6f44
NM
507834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5079 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5080 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5081 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5082 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5083 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5084 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5085
5086 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5087 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5088 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5089 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5090 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5091 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5092 CAN-2005-0021
5093
ea3a6f44
NM
509435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5095 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5096 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5097 CAN-2005-0022
5098
ea3a6f44
NM
509936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5100 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5101 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5102 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5103 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5104
ea3a6f44
NM
510537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5106 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5107 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5108 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5109 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5110
ea3a6f44
NM
511138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5112 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5113 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5114 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5115 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5116
5117
495ae4b0
PH
5118Exim version 4.43
5119-----------------
5120
5121 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5122 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5123 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5124 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5125 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5126 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5127 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5128
5129 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5130 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5131 the delivery.
5132
5133 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5134
5135 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5136
5137 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5138 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5139 to local_scan().
5140
5141 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5142 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5143 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5144 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5145 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5146
5147 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5148 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5149
5150 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5151
5152 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5153
515410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5155 header_sender only.
5156
515711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5158 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5159
516012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5161 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5162 affecting debugging statements).
5163
516413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5165
516614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5167 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5168 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5169 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5170 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5171 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5172 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5173 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5174 after the received time, and all would be well.
5175
517615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5177 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5178 condition in an expansion string.
5179
518016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5181
518217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5183 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5184 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5185 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5186 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5187 job under whatever limits there are.
5188
518918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5190
519119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5192 space).
5193
519420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5195 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5196 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5197 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5198 return path is set.
5199
520021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5201 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5202 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5203 binary data in such strings.
5204
520522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5206
520723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5208 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5209 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5210 failure, which is pointless.
5211
521224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5213
521425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5215
521626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5217 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5218 Sender: header lines.
5219
522027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5221 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5222 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5223
522428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5225 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5226 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5227 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5228 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5229 happens.
5230
523129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5232 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5233 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5234 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5235 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5236
523730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5238 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5239 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5240 1024.
5241
524231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5243 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5244
524532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5246 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5247
524833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5249
525032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5251
525233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5253
525434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5255 syntax error.
5256
525735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5258
525936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5260
526137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5262 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5263 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5264 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5265
526638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5267 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5268
5269
5270Exim version 4.42
5271-----------------
5272
5273 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5274 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5275 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5276 it was not quoted.
5277 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5278 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5279 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5280 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5281 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5282 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5283
5284 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5285 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5286 verification failure".
5287
5288 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5289 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5290 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5291 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5292
5293 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5294 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5295 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5296 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5297 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5298 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5299 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5300 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5301 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5302 treated as a timeout.
5303
5304 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5305 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5306 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5307 not set for Exim filters).
5308
5309 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5310 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5311 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5312
5313 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5314
5315 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5316 try to make them clearer.
5317
5318 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5319 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5320
5321 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5322
5323 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5324
532510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5326 only the Cygwin environment.
5327
532811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5329 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5330 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5331 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5332 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5333
533412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5335 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5336 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5337 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5338 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5339 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5340 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5341
534213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5343 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5344
534514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5346
5347 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5348 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5349 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5350
5351 To: susanne@some.where
5352
5353 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5354 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5355 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5356 of addresses in From: header lines).
5357
5358 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5359 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5360 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5361
5362 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5363 treated as non-personal.
5364
5365 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5366 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5367
536815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5369
537016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5371
537217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5373 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5374 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5375
537618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5377 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5378
537919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5380 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5381 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5382 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5383 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5384 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5385
538620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5387 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5388 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5389 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5390 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5391 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5392 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5393 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5394
5395 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5396
539721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5398 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5399
540022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5401 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5402 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5403
540423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5405 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5406
540724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5408 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5409 rather than long int.
5410
541125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5412
541326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5414
5415
5416Exim version 4.41
5417-----------------
5418
5419 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5420 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5421 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5422 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5423 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5424 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5425
5426
5427Exim version 4.40
5428-----------------
5429
5430 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5431 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5432
5433 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5434 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5435 socklen_t is defined.
5436
5437 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5438 always exist.
5439
5440 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5441 configured.
5442
5443 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5444 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5445 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5446 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5447 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5448
5449 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5450 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5451 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5452 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5453
5454 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5455 of flapping under certain conditions.
5456
5457 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5458 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5459 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5460
5461 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5462
546310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5464
546511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5466 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5467 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5468 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5469
547012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5471 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5472 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5473 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5474 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5475 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5476 preserved with the message after it was received.
5477
547813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5479 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5480 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5481 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5482 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5483 test suite worked just fine.
5484
548514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5486 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5487 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5488
548915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5490 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5491 string.
5492
549316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5494 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5495 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5496 does not fully solve it.
5497
549817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5499 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5500 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5501 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5502 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5503
550418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5505 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5506 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5507
550819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5509 string, for example:
5510
5511 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5512
5513 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5514 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5515 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5516 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5517 the routers could not see them.
5518
551920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5520 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5521
552221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5523 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5524 output).
5525
552622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5527 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5528 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5529 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5530 that needed quoting.
5531
553223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5533 was not being matched caselessly.
5534
553524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5536 backslashes.
5537
553825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5539 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5540 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5541 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5542 when use_sender is false.
5543
554426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5545
554627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5547
554828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5549
555029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5551 the configuration file.
5552
555330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5554 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5555
555631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5557
555832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5559 bytes in the message body.
5560
556133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5562 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5563 delivery.
5564
556534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5566
556735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5568
556936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5570 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5571 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5572 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5573 another IP address.
5574
5575
5576Exim version 4.34
5577-----------------
5578
5579 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5580 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5581
5582 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5583 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5584 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5585 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5586 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5587
5588 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5589 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5590
5591 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5592 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5593 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5594
5595 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5596 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5597 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5598
5599 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5600 for routers.
5601
5602 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5603 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5604 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5605 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5606 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5607 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5608 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5609
5610
5611Exim version 4.33
5612-----------------
5613
5614 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5615 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5616 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5617 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5618 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5619 default (and expected) setting.
5620
5621 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5622 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5623 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5624 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5625
5626 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5627 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5628
5629 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5630 in domain lists.
5631
5632 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5633 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5634 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5635 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5636 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5637 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5638
5639 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5640 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5641 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5642
5643 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5644 part (NOT match_host).
5645
5646 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5647
5648 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5649 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5650 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5651 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5652 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5653 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5654 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5655 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5656 the same named file.
5657
565810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5659 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5660 when Exim is built.
5661
566211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5663 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5664 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5665 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5666 a host name.
5667
566812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5669 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5670 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5671
567213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5673
567414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5675
567615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5677
567816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5679 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5680
568117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5682 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5683 before starting the TLS session.
5684
568518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5686
568719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5688 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5689
569020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5691 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5692 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5693 colon in the middle).
5694
5695
5696Exim version 4.32
5697-----------------
5698
5699 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5700 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5701 multiple configurations are in use.
5702
5703 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5704 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5705 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5706 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5707 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5708 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5709
5710 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5711 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5712
5713 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5714 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5715 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5716
5717 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5718 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5719 occurs.
5720
5721 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5722 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5723
5724 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5725
5726 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5727 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5728
5729 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5730
5731 -prval:sval
5732
5733 is equivalent to
5734
5735 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5736
5737 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5738 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5739 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5740 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5741 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5742
574310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5744 Exim's behaviour:
5745
5746 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5747 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5748 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5749 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5750 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5751 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5752
5753 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5754 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5755 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5756 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5757 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5758 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5759 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5760 string.
5761
5762 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5763 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5764 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5765 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5766 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5767
576811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5769
577012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5771 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5772 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5773
577413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5775
577614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5777 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5778 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5779 information.
5780
578115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5782 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5783
578416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5785 Three changes have been made:
5786
5787 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5788 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5789 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5790 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5791 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5792
5793 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5794 been restored.
5795
5796 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5797 the modified behaviour.
5798
5799
5800Exim version 4.31
5801-----------------
5802
5803 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5804 Larry Rosenman.
5805
5806 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5807 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5808
5809 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5810 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5811 try to track down a specific problem.
5812
5813 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5814 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5815 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5816
5817 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5818 warning.
5819
5820 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5821 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5822 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5823 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5824 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5825 some earlier ones do not.
5826
5827 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5828
5829 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5830 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5831 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5832 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5833 address literals are enabled, of course).
5834
5835 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5836
583710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5838 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5839 by a command such as
5840
5841 exim -f "" ...
5842
5843 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5844
584511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5846
584712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5848 remained set. It is now erased.
5849
585013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5851 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5852
585314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5854 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5855 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5856 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5857 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5858 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5859 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5860 appropriate error code.
5861
586215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5863 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5864 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5865 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5866 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5867 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5868
586916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5870 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5871 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5872
587317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5874 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5875 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5876 terminate the header.
5877
587818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5879 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5880 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5881
588219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5883 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5884 (4.30/29). In particular:
5885
5886 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5887 imposed.
5888
5889 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5890 to write a maildirsize file.
5891
5892 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5893 the transport, the new value overrides.
5894
5895 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5896 count.
5897
589820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5899 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5900 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5901 space or a tab.
5902
590321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5904 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5905 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5906 the fallback hosts.
5907
590822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5909 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5910 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5911
591223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5913 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5914 using a union.
5915
591624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5917 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5918 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5919
592025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5921
592226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5923
592427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5925
592628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5927 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5928 become corrupted.
5929
593029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5931 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5932 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5933 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5934 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5935 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5936 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5937 too great.
5938
593930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5940 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5941 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5942 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5943 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5944 incorrectly.
5945
594631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5947 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5948 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5949 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5950 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5951 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5952 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5953 cached value only when the same options are set.
5954
595532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5956
595733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5958 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5959 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5960 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5961 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5962
596334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5964 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5965 it is clearly obsolete.
5966
596735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5968 transport.
5969
597036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5971 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5972 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5973 times.
5974
597537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5976 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5977 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5978 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5979 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5980
598138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5982 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5983 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5984 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5985
598639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5987
5988 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5989
5990 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5991 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5992 2^31.
5993
599440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5995 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5996 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5997 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5998 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5999 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6000 $localpart_data.
6001
600241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6003 with the -f command-line option.
6004
600542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6006 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6007 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6008 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6009 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6010 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6011
601243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6013 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6014 line.
6015
601644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6017 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6018 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6019 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6020 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6021 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6022 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6023 buffer is too small.
6024
602545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6026 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6027
602846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6029 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6030 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6031 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6032 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6033 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6034 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6035 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6036 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6037
603847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6039 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6040 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6041
604248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6043 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6044 ACL").
6045
604649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6047 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6048 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6049 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6050 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6051
605250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6053 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6054 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6055 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6056 is set.
6057
605851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6059
606052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6061
606253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6063 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6064
606554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6066 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6067 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6068
606955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6070 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6071 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6072 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6073 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6074
607556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6076 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6077 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6078 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6079 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6080 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6081 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6082
608357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6084 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6085 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6086 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6087 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6088 the test of how many are available.
6089
609058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6091 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6092 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6093 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6094 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6095 new message is started.
6096
609759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6098 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6099
610060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6101 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6102
610361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6104 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6105 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6106 is no long logged.
6107
610862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6109 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6110 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6111 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6112 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6113 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6114 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6115
611663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6117 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6118 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6119 interpreted as octal.
6120
612164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6122 setting.
6123
612465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6125 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6126 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6127 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6128 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6129 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6130
613166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6132 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6133 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6134 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6135
6136 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6137 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6138 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6139 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6140
6141 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6142 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6143 is a bug fix.
6144
6145 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6146 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6147
614867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6149
615068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6151 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6152 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6153 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6154
615569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6156 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6157 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6158 supplied", which is not helpful.
6159
616070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6161 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6162 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6163
616471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6165 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6166 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6167 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6168 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6169 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6170 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6171 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6172
617372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6174 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6175 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6176 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6177 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6178
617973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6180 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6181 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6182 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6183 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6184 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6185
618674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6187 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6188 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6189
619075. Added write_rejectlog option.
6191
619276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6193 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6194 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6195 variables.
6196
619777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6198
619978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6200 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6201 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6202 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6203 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6204 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6205 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6206 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6207
620879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6209 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6210 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6211 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6212 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6213
621480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6215 Haardt.
6216
621781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6218 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6219 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6220 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6221 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6222 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6223 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6224 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6225 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6226
6227
6228Exim version 4.30
6229-----------------
6230
6231 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6232 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6233 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6234
6235 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6236 fixed.
6237
6238 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6239 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6240 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6241
6242 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6243 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6244 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6245 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6246 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6247 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6248
6249 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6250 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6251 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6252 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6253 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6254 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6255 the Exim test suite.
6256
6257 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6258 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6259 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6260 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6261
6262 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6263 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6264 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6265 specify it in this variable.
6266
6267 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6268 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6269 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6270 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6271
6272 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6273 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6274 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6275 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6276
6277 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6278 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6279 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6280 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6281 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6282
6283 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6284
628510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6286 they are logged.
6287
628811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6289 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6290 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6291 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6292 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6293
629412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6295 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6296
629713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6298 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6299 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6300 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6301 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6302
630314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6304 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6305
630615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6307 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6308 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6309
631016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6311 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6312
631317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6314 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6315
631618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6317 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6318 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6319
632019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6321 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6322
632320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6324 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6325 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6326 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6327
632821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6329
633022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6331 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6332 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6333 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6334
633523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6336
633724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6338 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6339
634025. Added .include_if_exists.
6341
634226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6343 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6344 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6345 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6346 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6347 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6348
634927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6350
635128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6352 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6353 this.
6354
635529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6356
635730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6358 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6359
6360 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6361 550 Sender verify failed
6362
6363 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6364 the final line of the response.
6365
636631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6367 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6368 all other user lookups.
6369
637032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6371 delivery time.
6372
637333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6374 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6375 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6376 result into an int without checking.
6377
637834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6379 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6380 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6381
638235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6383 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6384 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6385 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6386
638736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6388 correctly.
6389
639037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6391 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6392
639338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6394 to the empty sender.
6395
639639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6397 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6398 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6399 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6400 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6401 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6402 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6403 panic log.
6404
640540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6406 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6407 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6408 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6409 used.
6410
641141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6412 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6413
641442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6415 timestamps.
6416
641743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6418 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6419
642044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6421
642245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6423 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6424 logs.
6425
642646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6427 as soon as it is encountered.
6428
642947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6430
643148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6432 rewritten to "<>".
6433
643449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6435 recognizes a tab character.
6436
643750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6438 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6439 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6440 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6441
644251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6443
644452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6445 crash.
6446
644753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6448
644954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6450
645155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6452 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6453 2822.
6454
645556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6456 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6457 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6458 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6459 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6460
646157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6462 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6463
646458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6465 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6466 list (.included file names were always shown).
6467
646859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6469 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6470 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6471 root at that time.
6472
647360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6474 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6475
647661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6477
647862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6479
648063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6481
648264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6483 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6484 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6485 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6486 failures to open the logs.
6487
648865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6489 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6490 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6491 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6492 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6493 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6494 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6495
6496
6497Exim version 4.24
6498-----------------
6499
6500 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6501 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6502 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6503 change 4.23/1.
6504
6505 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6506 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6507 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6508
6509 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6510 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6511 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6512
6513 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6514 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6515 causing some misleading effects.
6516
6517 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6518 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6519 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6520
6521 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6522 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6523 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6524 queue-runner function directly.
6525
6526
6527Exim version 4.23
6528-----------------
6529
6530 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6531 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6532
6533 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6534 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6535 was always written to the default place.
6536
6537 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6538 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6539 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6540
6541 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6542
6543 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6544
6545 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6546 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6547 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6548
6549 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6550 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6551 must start.
6552
6553 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6554 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6555 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6556
6557 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6558 command line option is disabled.
6559
6560 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6561 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6562
6563 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6564
6565 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6566
6567 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6568 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6569
657010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6571
657211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6573 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6574 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6575 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6576 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6577 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6578
657912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6580 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6581 timeout.
6582
658313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6584 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6585
658614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6587 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6588
658915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6590 received was valid base64.
6591
659216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6593 name of the variable that was being set.
6594
659517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6596
659718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6598 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6599 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6600 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6601 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6602 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6603
660419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6605
660620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6607 nor realm was specified.
6608
660921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6610 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6611 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6612 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6613
661422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6615 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6616 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6617
661823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6619 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6620 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6621
662224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6623 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6624 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6625 some systems use these upper case variants.
6626
662725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6628 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6629 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6630 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6631
663226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6633
663427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6635 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6636
663728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6638 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6639 expansion variable.
6640
664129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6642
664330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6644 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6645 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6646 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6647
664831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6649 using it.
6650
665132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6652 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6653 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6654
665533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6656 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6657
665834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6659 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6660 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6661 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6662
666335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6664 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6665 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6666
666736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6668
666937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6670 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6671 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6672 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6673 aborted.
6674
667538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6676 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6677 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6678
667939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6680
668140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6682 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6683
668441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6685 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6686
668742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6688 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6689 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6690 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6691 when emails are that large.
6692
6693
6694
6695Exim version 4.22
6696-----------------
6697
6698 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6699 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6700
6701 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6702 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6703 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6704
6705 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6706 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6707 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6708
6709 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6710 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6711 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6712 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6713 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6714
6715 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6716 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6717 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6718 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6719 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6720 ever.
6721
6722 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6723 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6724 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6725 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6726 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6727 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6728 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6729 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6730 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6731 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6732 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6733 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6734 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6735 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6736
6737 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6738 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6739 parameterised it.
6740
6741 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6742 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6743 error should be diagnosed.
6744
6745 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6746 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6747 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6748 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6749 appeared instead of "NULL".
6750
675110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6752 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6753 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6754 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6755 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6756 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6757 proceeds).
6758
6759 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6760 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6761 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6762
6763
6764Exim version 4.21
6765-----------------
6766
6767 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6768 or receiver verification errors.
6769
6770 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6771 name.
6772
6773 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6774 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6775 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6776 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6777
6778 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6779 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6780 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6781 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6782 shouldn't happen again.
6783
6784 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6785 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6786 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6787
6788 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6789 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6790
6791 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6792
6793 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6794 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6795
6796 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6797 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6798 RFC.
6799
680010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6801 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6802 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6803
680411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6805 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6806 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6807 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6808
680912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6810 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6811 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6812 to define what should happen).
6813
681413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6815 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6816 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6817
681814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6819
682015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6821
682216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6823 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6824
4c04137d 682517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6826 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6827 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6828 structure in all cases.
6829
6830 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6831 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6832 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6833 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6834
683518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6836 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6837 domain name.
6838
683919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6840 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6841
684220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6843 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6844
684521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6846 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6847 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6848
684922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6850 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6851 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6852
685323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6854 the book and for uniformity.
6855
685624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6857
685825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6859 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6860 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6861 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6862 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6863 non-existent command as the problem.
6864
686526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6866 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6867 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6868
686927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6870
687128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6872 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6873 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6874
687529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6876 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6877 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6878 timestamps using strftime().
6879
688030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6881 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6882
688332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6884 transport-time rewrites.
6885
688633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6887 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6888 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6889 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6890
689134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6892 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6893
689435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6895 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6896 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6897 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6898 comma and a space.
6899
690036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6901 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6902 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6903 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6904 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6905 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6906 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6907
690837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6909 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6910 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6911 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6912 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6913
691438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6915 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6916 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6917 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6918 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6919 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6920 remaining text gets split now.
6921
692239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6923 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6924 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6925 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6926
692740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6928 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6929 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6930 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6931 $return_path.
6932
693341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6934 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6935 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6936 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6937 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6938 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6939 passed through if needed.
6940
694142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6942 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6943 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6944 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6945 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6946 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6947
694843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6949 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6950 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6951 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6952 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6953
695444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6955 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6956 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6957 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6958 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6959
696045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6961 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6962 noticed.
6963
696446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6965 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6966 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6967 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6968 mayhem of various kinds.
6969
697047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6971 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6972 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6973 the right test for positive values.
6974
697548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6976 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6977 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6978 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6979 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6980 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6981 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6982 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6983 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6984 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6985 envelope.
6986
698749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6988 module.
6989
699050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6991 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6992 forbidding it.
6993
699451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6995 the existing equality matching.
6996
699752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6998 dealing with inode numbers.
6999
700053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7001 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7002 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7003
700454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7005 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7006 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7007 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7008 local_scan().
7009
701055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7011 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7012 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7013 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7014 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7015 relay addresses has also been removed.
7016
701756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7018
701957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7020 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7021 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7022
702358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7024 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7025 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7026 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7027 processing applies to CR:
7028
7029 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7030 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7031
7032 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7033 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7034 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7035 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7036
703759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7038 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7039 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7040
704160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7042 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7043 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7044 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7045 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7046 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7047 arisen.
7048
704961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7050 program routers.
7051
705262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7053 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7054 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7055 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7056 adds:
7057
7058 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7059
7060 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7061
7062 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7063
706463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7065 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7066 not considered personal.
7067
706864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7069
707065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7071
707266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7073
707467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7075 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7076 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7077 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7078 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7079 header lines, and spool format errors.
7080
708168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7082 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7083 for more flexibility.
7084
708569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7086 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7087 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7088
708970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7090 Sabourenkov.
7091
709271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7093 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7094 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7095 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7096 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7097 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7098 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7099 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7100 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7101
710272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7103 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7104 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7105 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7106 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7107 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7108 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7109
711073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7111 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7112 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7113
711474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7115 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7116 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7117 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7118 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7119 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7120 instead of killing the process with assert().
7121
712275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7123 than Unicode encoding.
7124
712576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7126 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7127 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7128 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7129
713077. Added process_log_path.
7131
713278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7133 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7134
713579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7136 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7137
713880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7139 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7140 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7141
714281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7143 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7144 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7145 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7146 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7147 were applied:
7148
7149 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7150 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7151 as invalid.
7152
715382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7154 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7155 they will be used during message reception.
7156
7157
7158Exim version 4.20
7159-----------------
7160
7161The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7162
7163****