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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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2c422e6f 4Exim version 4.82
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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44
45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
48
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49JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
50
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51PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
52
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53NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 55
585121e2 56JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 57
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58PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
59
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60PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
62
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63JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
65 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 66
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67JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
68
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69JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
70
ea722490 71JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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72 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
73
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74JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
75 Bugzilla 884.
76
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77JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
78 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
79
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80JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
81 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
82
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83PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
84 CVE-2012-5671
85
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86JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
87 authenticators.
88
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89JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
90 for control.
91
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92PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
93
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94PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
95 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
96 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
97 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
98
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99TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
100
101 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
102 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
103 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
104 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
105 the retry rules.
106
107 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
108 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
109 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
110
111 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
112 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
113 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
114 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
115
116 This commit adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that
117 the final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. I also
118 took the opportunity to unify three very similar blocks of code.
119
120 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
121 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
122
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124Exim version 4.80.1
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126
127PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
128 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 129 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 130
ea722490 131
b1770b6e 132Exim version 4.80
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134
135PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
136 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
137 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
138
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139NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
140
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141NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
142 improved.
143
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144NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
145
c1e794ba 146PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 147
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148PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
149
150PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
151 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
152
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153PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
154 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
155
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156PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
157 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
158
f1e05cc7 159PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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160 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
161 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 162
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163PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
164
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165PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
166 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
167
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168PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
169
c45dd180 170PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 171
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172PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
173 non-compliant senders.
174 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
175
eae0036b 176NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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177 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
178 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
179
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180PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
181 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
182 in spool file corruption.
183
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184PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
185 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
186 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
187 "Got SSL error 2".
188
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189TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
190 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
191 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
192
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193JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
194 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
195
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196JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
197
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198PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
199 diagnostics.
200 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
201
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202PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
203 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
204 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
205
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206PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
207 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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208 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
209 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 210
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211PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
212 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
213
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214PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
215 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
216 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
217 resolver implementation change.
218
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219PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
220 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
221
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222PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
223
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224PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
225
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226PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
227 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
228
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229PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
230 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
231
9e45c72b 232JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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233 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
234
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235PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
236 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
237 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
238 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 239 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 240
53947857 241PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 242
eae0036b 243PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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244 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
245 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 246
9e45c72b 247JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 248
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249PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
250 read-only, out of scope).
251 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
252
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253PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
254 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
255 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
256 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
257
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258PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
259
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260PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
261 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
262 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
263 real issues in debug logging.
264
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265PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
266 assignment on my part. Fixed.
267
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268PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
269 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
270 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
271
272PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
273 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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274 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
275 problems.
3375e053 276
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277PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
278 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
279
57eb9e91 280PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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281 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
282 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
283 needs to override this, it can.
284
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285PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
286 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
287 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
288
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289PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
290 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
291 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
292 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
293
3ecab157 294PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 295
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297Exim version 4.77
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299
300PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
301 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
302
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303TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
304
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305TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
306 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 307
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308TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
309 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
310
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311TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
312 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
313 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
314
315 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
316 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
317 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
318 not safe for signals.
319
320 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
321 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
322 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
323 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
324 exiwhat.
325
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326TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
327
328 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
329 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
330 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
331 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
332 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
333
334 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
335 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
336 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
337 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
338 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
339 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
340
341 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
342 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
343 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
344 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
345
346 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
347 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
348 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
349 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
350
351 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
352 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
353 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
354 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
355 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
356 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
357 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
358 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
359 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
360
361 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
362 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
363 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
364 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
365
366 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
367 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
368 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
369 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
370 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
371 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
372 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
373 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
374 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
375 details in the main documentation.
376
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377TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
378
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379TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
380
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381TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
382 repository when doing development or release builds.
383
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384PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
385 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 386
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387PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
388 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
389 Bugzilla 97.
390
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391PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
392
9e949f00 393PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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394 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
395
396PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
397 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 398
555ae6af 399PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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400 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
401
402PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
403 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 404
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405PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
406 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
407
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408PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
409 Bugzilla 1156.
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410 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
411 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 412
d6cc7c78 413PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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414 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
415 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
416
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417PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
418
3399bb60 419PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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420
421PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
422 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
423
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425Exim version 4.76
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427
428PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
429
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430PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
431 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
432
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433PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
434
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435PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
436
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437PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
438 Bugzilla 1098.
439
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440PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
441 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 442
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443TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
444 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
445
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446PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
447 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
448
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449PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
450 Bugzilla 1104.
451
c8d52a00 452TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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453 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
454
455TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
456 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
457 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
458 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
459
460PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
461 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 462
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464Exim version 4.75
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466
4c9ef03a 467NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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468 Bugzilla 1073
469
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470TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
471 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
472 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
473
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474TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
475 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
476
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477PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
478 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
479 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
480
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481PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
482 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
483
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484PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
485 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
486
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487NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
488 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
489
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490NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
491 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
492
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493PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
494 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 495
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496NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
497 Fixes bug 943.
498
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499PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
500 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
501
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502PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
503 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
504
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505PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
506 SQL string expansion failure details.
507 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
508
f1e5fef5
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509PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
510 Patch from Simon Arlott.
511
4d805ee9
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512PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
513 extern declarations in function scope.
514 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
515
cd59ab18
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516PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
517 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
518 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
519 a kernel bug).
520
332f5cf3
PP
521PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
522 Patch from Mark Zealey.
523
29cfeb94
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524PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
525 Patch from Mark Zealey.
526
660242ad
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527PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
528 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
529
bc4bc4c5
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530PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
531 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
532
2e64baa9
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533NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
534 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
535 Dennis Davis.
536
bddd7526
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537PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
538
6bac1a9a
PP
539PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
540
552193f0
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541NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
542 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 543
1b587e48
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544TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
545 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
546
aa097c4c 547
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548Exim version 4.74
549-----------------
550
551TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
552 consequences so log it to the panic log.
553
c0ea85ab
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554TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
555 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
556
0761d44e
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557TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
558
0a349494
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559DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
560 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
561 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
562
563PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
564 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
565 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
566
fea24b2e
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567PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
568 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
569 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
570 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
571
6545de78
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572PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
573 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
574 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
575 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
576
1670ef10
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577PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
578 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
579 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
580 arbitrary files.
581
c0886197
PP
582PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
583 (Wolfgang Breyha)
584
b7487bce
PP
585PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
586 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
587 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
588 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
589 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
590
8c07b69f 591
97fd1e48 592Exim version 4.73
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594
595PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
596 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
597 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
598
6901c596
PP
599PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
600 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
601
a8c8d6b5
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602JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
603
77bb000f
PP
604PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
605
a29e5231
PP
606PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
607
ec5a0394 608PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 609
55c75993
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610PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
611
453a6645 612PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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613 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
614 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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615 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
616
8544e77a
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617PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
618 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
619 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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620 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
621 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 622
83e029d5
PP
623PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
624
ed7f7860
PP
625PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
626
7d9f747b
PP
627PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
628
4b2241d2
PP
629PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
630
10385c15
PP
631PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
632
dbc4b90d
PP
633PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
634
532be449
PP
635PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
636
6a8de854 637PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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638 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
639 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 640
5dc43717
JJ
641JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
642
643JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
644 "exim" to be used
55c75993 645
3346ab01
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646PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
647 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
648
491fab4c
PP
649PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
650 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
651 Notification from John Horne.
652
13eb9497
PP
653PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
654 compatible.
655
656PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
657 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
658 it normally works.
659
7f36d675
DW
660DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
661 access.
662
c1d94452
DW
663DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
664 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
665 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
666
e2f5dc15
DW
667DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
668 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
669 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
670 configuration file.
671
cd25e41d
DW
672DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
673 option (effectively making it always true).
674
261dc43e
DW
675DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
676 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
677
fa32850b
DW
678DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
679 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
680
79d4bc3d
PP
681PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
682 run-time user, instead of root.
683
43236f35 684PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
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685 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
686
fb08281f
DW
687DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
688 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
689 arguments.
3346ab01 690
74935b98
DW
691DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
692 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
693 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
694
90b6341f
DW
695DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
696
57730b52
ML
697NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
698
66581d1e 699
465e92cf
JJ
700Exim version 4.72
701-----------------
702
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703JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
704 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
705 typos
465e92cf 706
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707JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
708 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
709 (Finput)
edae0343 710
9bd3e22c
NM
711NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
712 Patch from Alain Williams
713
bb576ff7
NM
714NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
715
5a1a5845
NM
716NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
717 Patch from Andreas Metzler
718
981a9fad
NM
719NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
720 Patch from Kirill Miazine
721
7fc497ee
NM
722NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
723
1a41defa
JJ
724JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
725
a466095c 726NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 727 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 728
94a6bd0b
NM
729TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
730
731TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
732
733MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
734 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
735 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
736
c1b141a8
NM
737NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
738 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 739
b26eacf1 740NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
741 Patch by Simon Arlott
742
179c5980 743PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 744 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 745
9bd3e22c 746
7c6d71af
NM
747Exim version 4.71
748-----------------
749
7d9f747b 750TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 751
f013fb92
NM
752NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
753
0eb8eedd
NM
754NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
755
663ee6d9
NM
756NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
757
177ebd9b
NM
758NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
759
7c6d71af 760
210f147e
NM
761Exim version 4.70
762-----------------
763
cdd3bb85 764TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 765 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
766
767TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
768 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 769 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
770
771TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
772 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 773 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
774
775TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
776 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
777
210f147e
NM
778NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
779 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
780 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
781 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
782
deafd5b3
NM
783NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
784 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 785 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 786
089793a4
TF
787TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
788
5f16ca82
TF
789TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
790
dae9d94e 791NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 792 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 793
7d9f747b 794NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 795
06864c44
TF
796TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
797 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
798 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
799 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
800
65a7d8c3 801NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 802 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 803
23510047 804TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 805
7d9f747b 806NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 807
7d8eec3a 808NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 809 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 810
89dec7b6
TF
811TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
812 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 813
a99de90c
TF
814TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
815 that they are available at delivery time.
816
e2803e40
TF
817TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
818
7199e1ee
TF
819TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
820 incoming_port log selectors.
821
e276e04b
TF
822TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
823 setting expands to an empty string.
824
ce552449 825NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 826 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 827
e765a0f1 828NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 829 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 830
4f054c63 831NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 832 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 833
7d9f747b
PP
834NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
835 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 836
7d9f747b
PP
837NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
838 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 839
b52bc06e 840NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 841 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 842
447de4b0
NM
843NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
844
4c69d561 845NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 846 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 847
d5c39246 848NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 849 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 850
0b23848a
TK
851TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
852
8f3414a1 853NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 854 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 855
fb6f955d
NM
856NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
857
858NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 859
7d9f747b
PP
860NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
861 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 862
7d9f747b
PP
863NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
864 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 865
7d9f747b
PP
866NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
867 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 868
7d9f747b
PP
869NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
870 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 871
7d9f747b
PP
872NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
873 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 874
7d9f747b
PP
875NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
876 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 877
7d9f747b
PP
878NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
879 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 880
7d9f747b 881NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 882 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 883
7d9f747b 884NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 885
7d9f747b
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886NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
887 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 888
7d9f747b 889NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 890
7d9f747b 891NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 892
7d9f747b 893NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 894
7d9f747b 895NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 896
17792b53 897NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 898 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 899
7d9f747b
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900NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
901 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 902
91576cec 903NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 904 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 905
7d9f747b
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906NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
907 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 908
7d9f747b 909NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 910
7d9f747b 911NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 912
7d9f747b 913NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 914
7d9f747b 915NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 916
deafd5b3 917
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918Exim version 4.69
919-----------------
920
4b3504d0
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921TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
922 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
923 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
924
925 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
926 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
927 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
928 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
929 build errors in sieve.c.
930
81ea09ca
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931NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
932 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
933 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
934
f13cddcb
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935SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
936
7d9f747b 937NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 938
7d9f747b 939NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 940
7d9f747b 941NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
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942
943
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944Exim version 4.68
945-----------------
946
947PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
948
6a3bceb1
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949PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
950 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
951 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
952 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
953 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
954 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
955 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
956 for iplsearch lookups.
957
958 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
959 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
960 previously such lookups could never work.
961
962 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
963 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
964 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
965
2e30fa9d
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966TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
967 version.
968
0806a9c5
MH
969MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
970 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
971 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
972 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
973 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
974 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
975
ae276964
TK
976TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
977 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
978
0f2cbd1b
MH
979MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
980 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
981 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
982 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
983 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
984 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
985
2b85bce7
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986PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
987 local_scan API.
988
93655c46
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989PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
990
6c512171
PH
991PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
992 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
993 encrypted.
994
995PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
996 by clients under certain conditions.
997
aa6dc513
PH
998PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
999 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1000
a96603a0
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1001PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1002
8f240103
PH
1003PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1004 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1005
1006PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1007
d677b2f2
PH
1008PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1009
d52120f2
PH
1010PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1011
64f2600a
PH
1012PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1013 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1014
8669f003
PH
1015PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1016
a4dc33a8
PH
1017PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1018 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1019
d6a60c0f
PH
1020PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1021
8f128379
PH
1022PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1023
8932dffe
PH
1024PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1025 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1026 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1027 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1028
ddea74fa 1029PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1030 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1031 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1032
ddea74fa 1033PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1034 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1035
ddea74fa
PH
1036PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1037
ce9f225c
PH
1038PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1039
19897d52
PH
1040PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1041
bc64a74d
PH
1042PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1043 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1044 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1045
eb4c0de6 1046
b4ed4da0
PH
1047Exim version 4.67
1048-----------------
1049
22ad45c9
MH
1050MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1051 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1052 Jan Srzednicki.
1053
b4ed4da0
PH
1054PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1055 issue a MAIL command.
1056
431b7361
PH
1057PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1058
1059 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1060
1061 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1062 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1063 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1064 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1065 item. This has been fixed.
1066
1067PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1068 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1069
83da1223
PH
1070PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1071 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1072
54fc8428
PH
1073PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1074 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1075 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1076
34c5e8dd
SC
1077SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1078
bbe15da8
PH
1079PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1080 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1081 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1082 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1083 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1084
0e8a9471
MH
1085MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1086 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1087 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1088
f0872424
PH
1089PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1090 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1091 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1092 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1093
b01dd148
PH
1094PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1095
6bf342e1
PH
1096PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1097
273f34d0
PH
1098PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1099 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1100 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1101 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1102 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1103
cf8b11a5
PH
1104PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1105
41c7c167
PH
1106PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1107 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1108 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1109 values).
1110
9c57cbc0
PH
1111PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1112
f3f065bb
PH
1113PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1114
047bdd8c
PH
1115PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1116
0ce9abe6
PH
1117PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1118
0e22dfd1
PH
1119PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1120
4c590bd1
PH
1121PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1122 no_callout_flush is set.
1123
09945f1e
PH
1124PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1125 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1126 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1127 fixed.
1128
c51b8e75
PH
1129PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1130
e28326d8
PH
1131PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1132 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1133 other ACL rejections are.
1134
75b1493f
PH
1135PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1136 with slight modification.
1137
7c5214ec
PH
1138PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1139 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1140
4311097e
PH
1141PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1142 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1143 connection.
1144
29f89cad
PH
1145PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1146 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1147
5e687460
SC
1148SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1149
c3611384
PH
1150PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1151 expansion side effects.
1152
5a11a7b4
PH
1153PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1154 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1155 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1156 be the same.
1157
0e20aff9
MH
1158MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1159 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1160 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1161
ca86f471
PH
1162PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1163 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1164 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1165 were accidentally chopped off.
1166
a14e5636
PH
1167PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1168 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1169 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1170 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1171 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1172 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1173 pipelining has not been advertised.
1174
ec95d1a6
PH
1175PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1176
42855d71
PH
1177PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1178 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1179 This has been fixed.
1180
57c2c631
PH
1181PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1182 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1183 reported on Solaris.
1184
58c01c94
PH
1185PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1186 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1187 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1188 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1189 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1190 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1191 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1192
dee5a20a
PH
1193PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1194 cpus.
1195
d2ee6114
PH
1196PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1197
b2d5182b
PH
1198PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1199
79749a79
PH
1200PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1201 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1202 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1203 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1204 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1205 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1206
c456d9bb
PH
1207PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1208 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1209 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1210 host_all_ignored option.
1211
cd9868ec
PH
1212PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1213 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1214 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1215 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1216 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1217 is what is supposed to happen).
1218
ebeaf996
PH
1219PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1220 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1221 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1222 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1223 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1224 uses the Exim user.
1225
2679d413
PH
1226PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1227 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1228 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1229 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1230 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1231 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1232 users.
1233
84024b72
PH
1234PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1235
8005d38e
SC
1236SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1237 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1238 (Jez Hancock).
1239 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1240 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1241
3298c6c6
SC
1242SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1243
a43a27c5
PH
1244PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1245
58eb016e 1246PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1247 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1248 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1249 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1250 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1251 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1252 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1253 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1254 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1255 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1256 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1257
b43a74ea
PH
1258PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1259 advertised in response to EHLO.
1260
b4ed4da0 1261
5dd1517f
PH
1262Exim version 4.66
1263-----------------
1264
1265PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1266 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1267
1268 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1269 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1270
1271 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1272 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1273 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1274
1275 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1276 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1277 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1278 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1279 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1280
1281
93cfa765
TK
1282Exim version 4.65
1283-----------------
1284
1285TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1286 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1287 versions. (#438)
1288
d6066548
MH
1289MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1290 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1291 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1292
4362ff0d
PH
1293PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1294 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1295 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1296 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1297 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1298 rather than extend the field.
1299
93cfa765 1300
944e9e9c
TF
1301Exim version 4.64
1302-----------------
aa41d2de 1303
21d74bd9
TK
1304TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1305 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1306 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1307 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1308 these files.
1309
1310TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1311 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1312 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1313
1314TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1315 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1316 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1317
1318TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1319 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1320 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1321 in the field name.
1322
2b1c6e3a
PH
1323PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1324 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1325 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1326 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1327 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1328 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1329 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1330 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1331 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1332 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1333 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1334
1f872c80
PH
1335PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1336 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1337
1338PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1339 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1340 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1341 ignores EPIPE as well.
1342
d203e649
PH
1343PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1344 (quoted-printable decoding).
1345
cc2ed8f7 1346PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1347 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1348
ddfcd446
PH
1349PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1350
d45b1de8
PH
1351PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1352
1353PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1354
38a0a95f 1355PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1356 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1357
a2405d83
JJ
1358JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1359 in 4.64-PH/09.
1360
1361JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1362 miscellaneous code fixes
1363
6ea85e9a
PH
1364PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1365 rejections.
1366
26da7e20
PH
1367PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1368 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1369 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1370 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1371 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1372 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1373 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1374 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1375
14aa5a05 1376PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1377 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1378 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1379 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1380 function.
1381 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1382 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1383 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1384 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1385 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1386 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1387 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1388 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1389 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1390
ff75a1f7
PH
1391PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1392 decoding.
1393
e6f6568e
PH
1394PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1395 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1396 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1397 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1398 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1399 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1400 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1401 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1402
d6f6e0dc
PH
1403PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1404 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1405 list.
1406
322050c2
PH
1407PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1408 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1409 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1410 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1411 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1412 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1413 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1414 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1415 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1416 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1417 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1418 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1419 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1420
08955dd3
PH
1421PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1422 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1423 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1424 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1425 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1426 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1427 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1428
1eccaa59
PH
1429PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1430 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1431 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1432 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1433 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1434 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1435 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1436 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1437 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1438 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1439
602e59e5
PH
1440PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1441 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1442 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1443 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1444 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1445
411ef850
PH
1446PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1447 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1448 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1449 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1450 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1451 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1452 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1453
7befa435
PH
1454PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1455 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1456 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1457 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1458 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1459 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1460 been verified.
1461
48da4259 1462PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1463 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1464 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1465 and authorization.)
1466
48da4259
PH
1467PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1468 if any retry times were supplied.
1469
d1d5595c
PH
1470PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1471 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1472 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1473
0ef732d9
PH
1474PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1475
328895cc
PH
1476PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1477
fd700877
PH
1478PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1479 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1480 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1481 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1482 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1483 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1484
8dce1a6f
PH
1485PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1486 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1487
17af4a17
PH
1488PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1489 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1490 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1491
1492PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1493 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1494 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1495 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1496 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1497 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1498 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1499 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1500 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1501
1502 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1503 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1504 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1505 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1506 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1507 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1508 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1509 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1510 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1511
1512 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1513 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1514 hammering the server.
1515
c1114884
PH
1516PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1517 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1518
7a0743eb
PH
1519PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1520
0d85fa3f
PH
1521PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1522 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1523 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1524
1bf43b78
PH
1525PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1526 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1527 one case where this was not true.
1528
520de300
PH
1529PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1530 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1531 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1532 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1533 fails.
1534
48c7f9e2
PH
1535PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1536 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1537 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1538 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1539 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1540 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1541 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1542 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1543 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1544 smtp transport.
1545
99ea1c86
PH
1546PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1547 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1548 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1549 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1550
a2042e78
PH
1551PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1552 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1553
4fbcfc2e
PH
1554PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1555 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1556 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1557
aa41d2de
PH
1558PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1559
af561417
PH
1560PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1561
3cc66b45
PH
1562PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1563
194cc0e4
PH
1564PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1565 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1566 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1567 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1568
a401ddaa
PH
1569PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1570 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1571
4e88a19f
PH
1572PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1573 be meaningful with "accept".
1574
d7d7b289
SC
1575SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1576 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1577
1578SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1579 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1580 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1581
1582SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1583 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1584 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1585 there is data to show.
1586 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1587
1588SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1589 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1590 as well as the number of messages.
1591
1592SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1593 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1594 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1595
1596SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1597 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1598 have a flag are now skipped.
1599
1600SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1601 Added the -emptyok flag.
1602
1603SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1604 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1605
0ea2a468
JJ
1606JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1607 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1608 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1609
1610JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1611 match 4.64-PH/13
1612
1613JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1614 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1615
1616JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1617
1618JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1619 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1620
8a10f5a4
PH
1621PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1622
30e18802
PH
1623PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1624 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1625 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1626 contravention of the specifications.
1627
55728a4f
PH
1628PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1629 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1630 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1631
d7837193
PH
1632PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1633 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1634 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1635
87054a31
PH
1636PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1637
ea2c01d2
MH
1638MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1639 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1640 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1641 some point in the past.
1642
e4fa6968
PH
1643PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1644 transport during callout processing was broken.
1645
56f5d9bd
PH
1646PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1647 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1648
922e1c28
PH
1649PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1650 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1651
21eb6e72
PH
1652PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1653 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1654
a0540757
PH
1655PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1656
944e9e9c 1657
478be7b0
SC
1658Exim version 4.63
1659-----------------
1660
1661SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1662 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1663
1664SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1665 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1666 there is data to show.
1667 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1668
1669SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1670 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1671
2b965a65
TF
1672TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1673 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1674
45b91596
PH
1675TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1676 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1677
c59f5781
TF
1678TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1679 submissions from trusted users.
1680
90fc3069
TF
1681TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1682 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1683
6083aca0
TF
1684TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1685 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1686 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1687 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1688 there is now a framework to start from.
1689
765b530f
PH
1690PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1691 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1692 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1693
4e167a8c
PH
1694PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1695
4608d683
PH
1696PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1697
b8dc3e4a
PH
1698PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1699
5418e93b
PH
1700PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1701 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1702 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1703
b4a9bda2
PH
1704PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1705 libradius.
1706
45b91596
PH
1707PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1708 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1709 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1710
5547e2c5
PH
1711PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1712 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1713 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1714 its arguments.
1715
dbcef0ea
PH
1716PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1717 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1718 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1719 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1720 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1721
25257489
PH
1722PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1723 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1724
c816d124
PH
1725PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1726
a9ccd69a
PH
1727PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1728 operations in malware.c.
1729
75fa1910
PH
1730PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1731 signatures.
1732
a7d7aa58
PH
1733PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1734 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1735 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1736 all.
1737
42119b09
PH
1738PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1739 statements to "add_header".
1740
41609df5
PH
1741PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1742 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1743
a5bd321b
PH
1744PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1745 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1746 latter.
1747
e85a7ad5 1748PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1749 so that it is now:
1750
e85a7ad5
PH
1751 ${if or { \
1752 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1753 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1754 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1755 }{no}{yes}}
1756
e85a7ad5
PH
1757 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1758 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1759
d8fe1c03
PH
1760PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1761 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1762
16282d2b
PH
1763PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1764 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1765 any possible encoding problems.
1766
35d40a98
PH
1767PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1768 but not after initializing Perl.
1769
034d99ab
PH
1770PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1771 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1772 apparently, which is not desirable.
1773
6ec97b1b
PH
1774PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1775 queries.
1776
e22ca4ac
JJ
1777JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1778 --not options
1779
1780JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1781
33d73e3b
PH
1782PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1783 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1784 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1785 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1786
9ecb03f3
PH
1787PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1788 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1789 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1790
084efe8d
PH
1791PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1792 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1793 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1794 0.12.
1795
366fc9f0
PH
1796PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1797 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1798 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1799 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1800 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1801
c59f5781 1802
c887c79e
TF
1803Exim version 4.62
1804-----------------
1805
1806TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1807 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1808
1cce3af8
PH
1809PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1810 patch).
1811
afb3eaaf
PH
1812PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1813 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1814 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1815 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1816 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1817 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1818 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1819 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1820 451 error is used.
1821
e173618b
PH
1822PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1823
dd16e114
PH
1824PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1825 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1826 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1827
f7fd3850
PH
1828PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1829 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1830 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1831 odd errors.
1832
d87df92c
PH
1833PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1834 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1835
7e9f683d
PH
1836PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1837 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1838 option (which defaults to 0600).
1839
bfad5236
PH
1840PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1841
01c490df
PH
1842PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1843 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1844 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1845 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1846 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1847 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1848 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1849
d6629cdc
PH
1850PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1851
1cce3af8 1852
214e2000
PH
1853Exim version 4.61
1854-----------------
1855
1856PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1857 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1858 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1859 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1860 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1861 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1862 addresses as local.
1863
f9daeae0
PH
1864PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1865 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1866
7e66e54d
PH
1867PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1868
c8ea1597
PH
1869PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1870 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1871 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1872 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1873 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1874 grumble.
1875
911f6fde
PH
1876PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1877 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1878
47ca6d6c
PH
1879PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1880 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1881 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1882 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1883 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1884
ed0e9820
PH
1885PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1886 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1887 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1888 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1889
eff37e47
PH
1890PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1891 be the same on different OS.
1892
1921d2ea
PH
1893PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1894 testing.
1895
b3f69ca8
JJ
1896JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1897 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1898
1899JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1900 in 4.61-PH/06
1901
424a1c63
PH
1902PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1903 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1904 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1905 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1906 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1907 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1908 bounce message.
1909
7a100415
PH
1910PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1911 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1912 when Exim was called.
1913
19b9dc85
PH
1914PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1915 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1916
309bd837
PH
1917PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1918 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1919 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1920 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1921
59e82a2a
PH
1922PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1923 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1924 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1925 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1926 changes:
1927
1928 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1929 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1930 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1931
1932 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1933 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1934 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1935
9edc04ce
PH
1936PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1937 feature).
1938
1349e1e5
PH
1939PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1940 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1941 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1942 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1943 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1944 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1945 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1946 values from the SRV records were lost.
1947
ea49d0e1
PH
1948PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1949 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1950 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1951
064a94c9
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1952PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1953 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1954 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1955
727071f8
PH
1956PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1957 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1958 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1959 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1960 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1961 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1962 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1963 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1964 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1965 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1966
f78eb7c6
PH
1967PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1968 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1969 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1970
21c28500
PH
1971PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1972 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1973
1974PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1975 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1976 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1977 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1978 is given.
1979
1688f43b
PH
1980PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1981 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1982 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1983
1984PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1985 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1986 PH/23 above applies.
1987
9675b384
PH
1988PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1989 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1990 (for which there is an explicit test).
1991
6a3f1455
PH
1992PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1993
dac79d3e
PH
1994PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1995 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1996 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1997 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1998 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1999
5977a0b3
PH
2000PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2001 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2002 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2003 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2004
c91535f3
PH
2005PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2006 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2007 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2008
0d46a8c8
PH
2009PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2010
278c6e6c
PH
2011PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2012
2cbb4081
PH
2013PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2014 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2015 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2016
3eef829e
PH
2017PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2018 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2019 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2020 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2021 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2022
1ab95fa6
PH
2023PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2024 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2025 the message gets confusing).
2026
230205fc
PH
2027PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2028 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2029 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2030 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2031
75e0e026
PH
2032PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2033 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2034 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2035 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2036 same order.
2037
2038PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2039 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2040 the different processes.
2041
145396a6
PH
2042PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2043
3cd34f13
PH
2044PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2045
11121d3d
JJ
2046JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2047 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2048
2049JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2050 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2051
2052JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2053 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2054 messages matching specified criteria.
2055
8def5aaf
PH
2056PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2057
929ba01c
PH
2058PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2059 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2060
2632889e
PH
2061PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2062 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2063 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2064 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2065 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2066 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2067 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2068 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2069 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2070 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2071
944a9c55
PH
2072PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2073 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2074 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2075
4a23603b
PH
2076PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2077
4730f942
PH
2078PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2079 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2080 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2081 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2082 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2083 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2084 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2085 the variable.
2086
30dba1e6
PH
2087PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2088 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2089
382afc6b
PH
2090PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2091
a86229cf
PH
2092PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2093
50c99ba6
PH
2094PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2095
d35e429d
PH
2096PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2097 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2098 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2099 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2100 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2101 size of the count of files.
2102
f90d018c
PH
2103PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2104
75def545
PH
2105PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2106 used in LMTP mode:
2107
2108 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2109 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2110 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2111 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2112
2113 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2114 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2115 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2116
2117PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2118 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2119 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2120 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2121 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2122
c46782ef
PH
2123PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2124 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2125
71fafd95
PH
2126PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2127 will now be deprecated.
2128
2c5db4fd
PH
2129PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2130
9cf6b11a
JJ
2131JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2132 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2133 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2134
2135JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2136 with very large, slow to parse queues
2137
2138JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2139
2140JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2141
898d150f
PH
2142PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2143 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2144 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2145 SMTP output lines.
2146
46218253
PH
2147PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2148 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2149 Sieve code now uses this.
2150
e97957bc
PH
2151PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2152 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2153
81e509d7
PH
2154PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2155 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2156
3d240ff7
PH
2157PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2158
b37c4101
PH
2159PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2160 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2161 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2162 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2163 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2164
79378e0f
PH
2165PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2166 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2167 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2168 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2169
e49c7bb4
PH
2170PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2171
d114ec46
PH
2172PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2173
f3d7df6c
PH
2174PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2175 is preferred over IPv4.
2176
715ab376
PH
2177PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2178 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2179 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2180 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2181 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2182 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2183 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2184
6b31b150
PH
2185PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2186 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2187 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2188
2189PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2190
d515a917
PH
2191PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2192 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2193 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2194 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2195 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2196 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2197 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2198 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2199 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2200 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2201 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2202
9b8fadde
PH
2203PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2204 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2205 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2206
214e2000 2207
5de37277
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2208Exim version 4.60
2209-----------------
2210
cc38ddbf
PH
2211PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2212
2213 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2214 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2215
2216 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2217 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2218 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2219
72fdd6ae
PH
2220PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2221
2222 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2223 not a single digit.
2224
2225 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2226 string.
2227
2228 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2229 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2230 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2231 silly things.
2232
2233 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2234 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2235
2236 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2237 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2238
cb741023
PH
2239PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2240 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2241 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2242
f174f16e
PH
2243PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2244 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2245
c25242d7
PH
2246PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2247 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2248
2249 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2250
2251 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2252 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2253 this:
2254
2255 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2256
82c19f95
PH
2257PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2258 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2259 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2260 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2261 identical. For example:
2262
2263 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2264
2265 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2266 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2267 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2268
d7ffbc12
PH
2269PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2270 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2271 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2272 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2273
9f526266
PH
2274PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2275 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2276 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2277 message.
2278
87fcc8b9
PH
2279PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2280
2281 o fixes some comments
2282 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2283 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2284 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2285 and documents the missing references header update
2286
2287 and most important:
2288
2289 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2290 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2291 result)
2292
456682f5
PH
2293PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2294 Electronic Mail") by including:
2295
2296 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2297
2298 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2299 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2300 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2301 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2302 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2303
2304 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2305
2306 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2307
2308 The auto-replied keyword:
2309
2310 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2311 message by an automatic process,
2312
2313 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2314
2315 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2316 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2317
2318 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2319 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2320 other messages.
2321
3e46c1aa
PH
2322PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2323 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2324
49826d12
PH
2325PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2326
eba0c039
PH
2327PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2328 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2329 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2330
a0d6ba8a
PH
2331PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2332 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2333 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2334
f0917727
PH
2335PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2336 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2337 and treats the condition as false.
2338
096fee00
PH
2339PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2340
024bd3c2
PH
2341PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2342 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2343 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2344 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2345 not changing the active code.
2346
2347 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2348 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2349
2350 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2351 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2352
df199fec
PH
2353PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2354 (Bugzilla #53).
2355
d27f1df3
PH
2356PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2357 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2358 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2359 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2360 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2361 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2362 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2363 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2364 the text comparison.
2365
96776534
PH
2366PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2367 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2368 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2369 The same fix has been applied.
2370
5de37277 2371
9a799bc0
PH
2372Exim version 4.54
2373-----------------
2374
2375PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2376 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2377 It now does.
2378
99a4b039
PH
2379PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2380 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2381
2382PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2383
4b233853
PH
2384PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2385 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2386 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2387 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2388 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2389
8857ccfd
PH
2390TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2391 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2392 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2393 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2394 or /domain=).
2395
433a2980
PH
2396PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2397 testing suite.
2398
3e46c1aa 2399
9a799bc0 2400
e3a311ba
TK
2401Exim version 4.53
2402-----------------
2403
2404TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2405 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2406
13b685f9
PH
2407PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2408
395ff96d
PH
2409PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2410
5b68f6e4
PH
2411PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2412 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2413 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2414
1ab52c69
PH
2415PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2416 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2417 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2418
b07e6aa3
PH
2419PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2420 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2421 operating systems.
2422
254e032f
PH
2423PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2424 ${stat: expansion item.
2425
3af76a81
PH
2426PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2427 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2428
2548ba04
PH
2429PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2430 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2431 file for comments.
2432
b6c6011d
PH
2433PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2434
cf39cf57
PH
2435PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2436 setting.
2437
f1513293
PH
2438PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2439 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2440
727549a4
PH
2441TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2442
af46795e
PH
2443PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2444 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2445 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2446 the end of the subprocess.
2447
d7b47fd0
PH
2448PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2449 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2450 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2451 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2452 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2453
ee744174
JJ
2454JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2455
b582ab87
PH
2456TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2457
41a13e0a
PH
2458PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2459 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2460
f625cc5a
PH
2461PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2462
2463PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2464
21f7af35
PH
2465PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2466 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2467 HP-UX compiler.
2468
31480e42
PH
2469PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2470
2d280592
PH
2471PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2472 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2473 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2474
7cd1141b
PH
2475PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2476 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2477
2478PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2479 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2480
750af86e
PH
2481PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2482 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2483
2484 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2485 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2486
2487 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2488 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2489 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2490 contributed by a Radius user.
2491
2492PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2493 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2494
4304270b
TK
2495TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2496 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2497
750af86e
PH
2498PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2499 available.
2500
64ffc24f
PH
2501PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2502 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2503 received.
2504
5dd9625b
PH
2505PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2506 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2507 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2508 header lines when this was not necessary.
2509
5591031b
PH
2510PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2511
ba18e66a
PH
2512PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2513 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2514 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2515 exists".
2516
9cec981f
PH
2517PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2518 -bV or -d is used.
2519
aa2b5c79
PH
2520PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2521 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2522 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2523 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2524
48a53b7f
PH
2525PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2526
1c59d63b
PH
2527PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2528
671012da
TK
2529TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2530
1509d3a8
PH
2531PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2532
2533PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2534 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2535 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2536 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2537 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2538 settings.
2539
2540PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2541
2fe1a124
PH
2542PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2543 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2544 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2545 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2546 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2547 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2548 which is clearly wrong.
2549
8800895a
PH
2550PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2551
ccfdb010
PH
2552PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2553 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2554 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2555 subsequently added.
2556
1130bfb0
PH
2557PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2558 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2559
ebcb507f
PH
2560PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2561
c35e155c
PH
2562PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2563 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2564
95d1f782
PH
2565PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2566 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2567
fd6de02e
PH
2568PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2569 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2570
58de37c5
PH
2571PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2572 recipients, not senders.
2573
261cf466
TF
2574TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2575 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2576
3ee512ff
PH
2577PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2578
e08c430f
PH
2579PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2580
bef5a11f
PH
2581PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2582 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2583 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2584 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2585
7546de58
TF
2586TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2587
e5d5a95f
TF
2588TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2589 clock is set back in time.
2590
2e88a017
TF
2591TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2592 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2593
a5f65aa4
TF
2594TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2595 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2596
e7726cbf
PH
2597PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2598 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2599 (see PH/47 above).
2600
a7fdad5b
TF
2601TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2602 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2603 header rewrites.
2604
6af56900
PH
2605PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2606 type ("H").
2607
0925ede6
PH
2608PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2609
66afa403
TF
2610TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2611 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2612 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2613
0154e85a
TF
2614TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2615 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2616 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2617 helo verification defer as a failure.
2618
16f12c76
PH
2619PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2620 actual error message.
2621
bbe902f0 2622
e5a9dba6
PH
2623Exim version 4.52
2624-----------------
2625
2626TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2627
22c3b60b
PH
2628PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2629 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2630 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2631 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2632
06a9b4b5
PH
2633TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2634
c1ac6996
PH
2635PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2636 can still be requested.
2637
9c7a242c
PH
2638PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2639 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2640 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2641 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2642
87ba3f5f
PH
2643TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2644 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2645 circumstances, but probably never did.
2646
2647PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2648 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2649 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2650 in the header line.
2651
29aba418
TF
2652TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2653
fe0dab11
TF
2654TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2655 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2656
11d337a4
TK
2657TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2658
2659TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2660
415c8f3b
PH
2661PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2662 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2663 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2664 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2665 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2666 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2667
958541e9
PH
2668PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2669 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2670 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2671 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2672 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2673 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2674
c206415f
TK
2675TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2676 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2677
2a4be8f9
PH
2678PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2679 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2680
1cba11c5
SC
2681SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2682 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2683
2684SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2685
2686SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2687
2688SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2689
2690SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2691
2692SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2693
2694SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2695
1005d00e
TK
2696TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2697
2698TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2699 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2700 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2701
2702TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2703 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2704 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2705 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2706
9b4768fa
PH
2707PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2708 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2709 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2710
2711PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2712 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2713 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2714 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2715
0d7eb84a
PH
2716PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2717 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2718 to be made).
2719
2720PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2721 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2722 should work with maildirs and everything.
2723
40727bee
TK
2724TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2725 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2726
554d2369
TF
2727TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2728 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2729
1f922db1
PH
2730PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2731 function for BDB 4.3.
2732
ef213c3b
PH
2733PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2734
8ac170f3
PH
2735PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2736 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2737 involved.
2738
b1c749bb
PH
2739PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2740 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2741 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2742 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2743 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2744 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2745
4aac9b49
PH
2746PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2747 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2748 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2749 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2750 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2751 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2752 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2753 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2754
294520c8
TK
2755TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2756 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2757 details.
2758
5bd022fe
PH
2759PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2760 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2761
90e9ce59
PH
2762PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2763 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2764 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2765 test. It is now used for both.
2766
5ea81592
PH
2767PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2768 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2769 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2770 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2771 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2772 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2773
c6c2dc1d
PH
2774PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2775 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2776 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2777 string_vformat().
2778
fffffe4c
PH
2779PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2780 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2781 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2782
9a26b6b2
PH
2783PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2784 experimental DomainKeys support:
2785
2786 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2787 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2788 the control was given.
2789
2790 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2791
4aee0225
PH
2792PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2793
32d668a5
PH
2794PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2795
8187c3f3
PH
2796PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2797 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2798 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2799 db.h files).
2800
ff790e47 2801PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2802 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2803 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2804 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2805 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2806 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2807 course.
ff790e47 2808
5417f6d1
PH
2809PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2810 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2811 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2812 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2813 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2814 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2815
59cf8544
PH
2816PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2817 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2818 do -d+all out of habit.
2819
e7ad8a65
PH
2820PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2821 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2822 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2823
ade42478
PH
2824PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2825 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2826 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2827 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2828 record types that Exim uses.
2829
182ad5cf
PH
2830PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2831 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2832 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2833 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2834 non-existent file that was broken.
2835
b0d9fc80
TK
2836TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2837 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2838
2839TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2840 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2841 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2842
2843TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2844
47c7a64a
PH
2845PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2846 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2847 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2848 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2849 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2850 same time.
2851
a388bce4
SC
2852SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2853 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2854 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2855 at a slight CPU cost.
2856
2857SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2858 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2859
2860SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2861 by Marc Sherman.
2862
0793e4ed
SC
2863SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2864
c58b88df
PH
2865PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2866 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2867
e7ad8a65 2868
7982096b
PH
2869Exim version 4.51
2870-----------------
2871
1a46a8c5
PH
2872TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2873 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2874
2f079f46 2875TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2876
2877TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2878
2879PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2880 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2881
2882PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2883 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2884 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2885 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2886 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2887 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2888 file.
2889
2890PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2891 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2892 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2893 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2894 these two options.
2895
2896PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2897 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2898 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2899 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2900 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2901 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2902 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2903 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2904
2905PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2906 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2907
2908PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2909 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2910 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2911 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2912 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2913 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2914
2915PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2916 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2917 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2918 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2919
2920PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2921 Finch).
2922
2923PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2924 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2925
49c2d5ea
PH
2926PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2927 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2928 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2929 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2930 message.
49c2d5ea 2931
bf759a8b
PH
2932PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2933
83364d30
PH
2934PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2935 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2936
7999bbd7
PH
2937PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2938 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2939 to what was transported.)
2940
7dbf77c9
PH
2941TF/01 Added $received_time.
2942
74e0617f
PH
2943PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2944 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2945 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2946 spamd_address settings.
2947
2f079f46
PH
2948PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2949 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2950 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2951 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2952 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2953
8c841523
PH
2954PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2955
7766a4f0
PH
2956PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2957 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2958 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2959 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2960 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2961
8b417f2c
PH
2962PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2963 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2964
901f42cb
PH
2965PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2966 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2967 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2968 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2969 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2970 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2971 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2972 for failure.
2973
f9b9210e
PH
2974PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2975 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2976 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2977 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2978 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2979 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2980 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2981 "input=".
2982
54cdb463
PH
2983PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2984
cf00dad6
PH
2985PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2986 driver and ACL definitions.
2987
acb1b346
PH
2988PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2989 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2990
c5ddb310
PH
2991PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2992 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2993 understands it better than I do:
2994
2995 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2996 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2997
2998 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2999 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3000 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3001 => three warnings about OTP not working
3002 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3003
3004 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3005 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3006 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3007 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3008 for each call.)
3009 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3010 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3011
3012 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3013 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3014 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3015
31619da6
PH
3016PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3017 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3018 specified.
3019
bebaf0fc
PH
3020PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3021 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3022 "Linux".
3023
475fe28a
PH
3024PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3025 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3026 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3027
3028 warn !verify = sender
3029 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3030
3031 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3032 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3033
7e8bec7a
PH
3034PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3035
3036 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3037 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3038
3039 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3040 nomenclature these days.)
3041
e4a89c47
PH
3042PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3043 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3044
5ca2a9a1
PH
3045PH/30 In these circumstances:
3046 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3047 . First host does not offer TLS;
3048 . First host accepts first address;
3049 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3050 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3051 . Second host accepts second address.
3052 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3053 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3054 address.
7e8bec7a 3055
c688b954
PH
3056PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3057 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3058 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3059 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3060 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3061
fed77020
PH
3062PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3063 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3064
7fe1560f
PH
3065PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3066 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3067
ebb6e6d5
PH
3068PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3069 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3070 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3071
9c4e8f60
PH
3072PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3073 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3074 overlooked.
3075
3076PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3077
d7174846
PH
3078PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3079 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3080 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3081 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3082 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3083 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3084 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3085
3086 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3087 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3088 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3089 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3090 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3091
3092 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3093 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3094 routed further.
3095
cfe75fc3
PH
3096PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3097 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3098 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3099 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3100 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3101 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3102
be22d70e
PH
3103PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3104
0612b098
PH
3105PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3106 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3107 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3108 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3109 printable escape sequences.
3110
2e0c1448
PH
3111PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3112 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3113 body only.
3114
447d236c
PH
3115PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3116 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3117 are as follows:
3118
3119 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3120 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3121 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3122 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3123 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3124
3125 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3126 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3127 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3128
d20976dc
PH
3129PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3130
f656d135
PH
3131PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3132 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3133 play with."
3134
2e2a30b4
PH
3135PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3136 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3137 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3138 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3139 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3140 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3141 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3142 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3143 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3144 the log output.
3145
9176e9f0
PH
3146PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3147 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3148 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3149 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3150 "make".
3151
7982096b 3152
bbe902f0
PH
3153A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3154----------------------------------------
3155
3156Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3157changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3158needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3159in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3160that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3161release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3162from 4.43.
3163
3164I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
31654.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3166those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3167historical information.
3168
3169
f7b63901 3170Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3171-----------------
3172
5fe762f6
PH
3173 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3174
139059f6 3175 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3176 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3177
7086e875
PH
3178 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3179 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3180 place.
3181
35af9f61
PH
3182 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3183 filter fails to execute.
3184
b668c215
PH
3185 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3186 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3187 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3188 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3189 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3190
a494b1e1
PH
3191 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3192
3193 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3194 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3195 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3196 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3197
c5fcb476
PH
3198 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3199 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3200 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3201 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3202 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3203
69358f02
PH
3204 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3205
5be20824
PH
320610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3207
eb2c0248
PH
320811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3209 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3210 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3211 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3212
2a3eea10
PH
321312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3214 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3215 sender verification.
3216
321713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3218 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3219
23c7ff99
PH
322014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3221
4deaf07d
PH
322215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3223 connection timeout.
3224
926e1192
PH
322516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3226 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3227
650edc6f
PH
322817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3229 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3230
2c7db3f5
PH
323118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3232 information about exactly what failed.
3233
3d235903
PH
323419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3235
7c7ad977
PH
323620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3237 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3238 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3239
981756db
PH
324021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3241 It is now set to "smtps".
3242
d4eb88df
PH
324322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3244 ignore_target_hosts.
3245
324623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3247 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3248 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3249 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3250 "[x.x.x.x]".
3251
7d468ab8
PH
325224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3253 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3254 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3255
325625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3257 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3258 wake it up if nothing else does.
3259
62c0818f
PH
326026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3261 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3262 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3263 end up negative.
3264
26034054
PH
326527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3266 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3267
af66f652
PH
326828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3269
90af77f4
PH
327029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3271 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3272 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3273 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3274 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3275 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3276 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3277 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3278
d8ef3577
PH
327930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3280 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3281 than one IP address.
3282
5cb8cbc6
PH
328331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3284 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3285 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3286 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3287
14702f5b
PH
328832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3289 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3290 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3291 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3292 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3293 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3294
063b1e99
PH
329533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3296 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3297 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3298 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3299
652e1b65
PH
330034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3301 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3302 respected.
3303
6f0c9a4f
PH
330435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3305 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3306 $sender_host_address.
3307
33397d19
PH
330836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3309 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3310 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3311 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3312 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3313 very small.
3314
7bb56e1f
PH
331537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3316
3317 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3318 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3319
ea3bc19b
PH
3320 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3321 just the host names, not the priorities.
3322
3323 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3324 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3325 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3326
ea3bc19b 3327 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3328 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3329
0bcb2a0e
PH
333038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3331 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3332 domain.
3333
2ac0e484
PH
333439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3335
4e1fde53
PH
333640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3337 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3338
de365ded
PH
333941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3340 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3341 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3342
f05da2e8
PH
334342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3344
d6453af2
PH
334543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3346
f7b63901
PH
334744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3348
334945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3350 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3351 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3352 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3353 because the tests only now provoked it.
3354
a444213a
PH
335546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3356 (this can affect the format of dates).
3357
0ec020ea
PH
335847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3359 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3360 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3361 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3362
b1206957
PH
336348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3364
336549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3366 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3367 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3368 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3369
26dd5a95
PH
337050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3371 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3372 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3373
343b2385
PH
337451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3375 autoreply.
3376
1c5466b9
PH
337752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3378 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3379 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3380 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3381 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3382 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3383 is going on).
3384
55ee9ee3
PH
338553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3386 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3387 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3388 the line.
3389
d38f8232
PH
339054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3391 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3392 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3393
3394 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3395 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3396 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3397 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3398 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3399 so I produce this patch..."
3400
3295e65b
PH
3401 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3402 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3403 is not defined.
3404
7102e136
PH
340555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3406 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3407 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3408 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3409 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3410
3ca0ba97
PH
341156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3412
c2bcbe20
PH
341357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3414 long debug lines gets shown.
3415
18ce445d
PH
341658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3417 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3418
1f5b4c3d
PH
341959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3420
3421 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3422 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3423 of $primary_hostname.
3424
b975ba52
PH
342560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3426 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3427 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3428 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3429 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3430 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3431 by change 4.50/55 above.
3432
3433 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3434 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3435 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3436 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3437 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3438 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3439 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3440
344161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3442 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3443 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3444 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3445
17ffcae7
PH
344662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3447 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3448
d95f9fdb
PH
344963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3450 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3451 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3452 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3453 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3454
86b8287f
PH
345564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3456 This has been fixed.
3457
60dc5e56
PH
345865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3459 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3460 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3461 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3462 the caching.)
3463
533244af
PH
346466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3465
a5a28604
PH
346667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3467 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3468 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3469 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3470
7e634d24
PH
347168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3472 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3473
3e11c26b
PH
347469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3475 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3476 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3477
6729cf78
PH
347870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3479 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3480 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3481 message there.
3482
00f00ca5
PH
348371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3484 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3485 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3486
c9bdd01c
PH
348772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3488 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3489 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3490 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3491
d43194df
PH
349273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3493 during host lookups.
3494
fe5b5d0b
PH
349574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3496 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3497
3498 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3499
76a2d7ba
PH
350075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3501 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3502 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3503 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3504 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3505 background.
3506
350776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3508 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3509
04f7d5b9
PH
351077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3511 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3512 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3513
bc60667e
PH
351478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3515
bb6e88ff
PH
351679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3517 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3518 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3519 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3520 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3521 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3522 process earlier.
3523
1e70f85b
PH
352480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3525 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3526 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3527 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3528 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3529
353081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3531 tables).
3532
4e01f9d6
PH
353382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3534
1ee1cef2
PH
353583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3536 "vacation" handling.
3537
6e2b4ccc
PH
353884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3539 OS variants using glibc.
3540
8e669ac1
PH
354185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3542
495ae4b0 3543
bbe902f0
PH
3544----------------------------------------------------
3545See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3546----------------------------------------------------
3547
3548
3549Exim version 4.44
3550-----------------
3551
3552 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3553 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3554 transport
3555
3556 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3557 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3558 place.
3559
3560 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3561 filter fails to execute.
3562
3563 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3564 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3565 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3566 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3567 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3568
3569 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3570 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3571 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3572 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3573
3574 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3575 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3576 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3577 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3578 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3579
3580 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3581
3582 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3583 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3584 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3585 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3586
3587 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3588 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3589 sender verification.
3590
359110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3592 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3593
359411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3595 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3596
359712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3598 ignore_target_hosts.
3599
360013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3601 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3602 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3603 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3604 "[x.x.x.x]".
3605
360614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3607 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3608 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3609
361015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3611 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3612 wake it up if nothing else does.
3613
361416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3615 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3616 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3617 end up negative.
3618
361917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3620 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3621
ea3a6f44 362218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3623
362419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3625 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3626 empty pattern.
3627
362820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3629 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3630 one IP address.
3631
ea3a6f44
NM
363221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3633 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3634 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3635 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3636 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3637 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3638
ea3a6f44
NM
363922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3640 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3641 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3642
364323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3644 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3645 $sender_host_address.
3646
364724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3648
ea3a6f44
NM
364925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3650 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3651 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3652
365326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3654 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3655
ea3a6f44
NM
365627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3657 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3658
ea3a6f44
NM
365928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3660 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3661 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3662 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3663
366429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3665 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3666 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3667
ea3a6f44
NM
366830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3669 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3670 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3671 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3672
ea3a6f44
NM
367331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3674 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3675 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3676
ea3a6f44
NM
367731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3678 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3679
ea3a6f44
NM
368032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3681 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3682 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3683 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3684 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3685 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3686 is going on).
bbe902f0 3687
ea3a6f44
NM
368833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3689 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3690 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3691 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3692 CAN-2005-0021
3693
ea3a6f44
NM
369434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3695 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3696 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3697 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3698 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3699 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3700 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3701
3702 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3703 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3704 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3705 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3706 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3707 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3708 CAN-2005-0021
3709
ea3a6f44
NM
371035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3711 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3712 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3713 CAN-2005-0022
3714
ea3a6f44
NM
371536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3716 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3717 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3718 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3719 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3720
ea3a6f44
NM
372137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3722 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3723 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3724 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3725 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3726
ea3a6f44
NM
372738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3728 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3729 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3730 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3731 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3732
3733
495ae4b0
PH
3734Exim version 4.43
3735-----------------
3736
3737 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3738 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3739 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3740 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3741 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3742 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3743 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3744
3745 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3746 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3747 the delivery.
3748
3749 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3750
3751 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3752
3753 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3754 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3755 to local_scan().
3756
3757 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3758 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3759 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3760 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3761 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3762
3763 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3764 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3765
3766 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3767
3768 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3769
377010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3771 header_sender only.
3772
377311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3774 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3775
377612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3777 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3778 affecting debugging statements).
3779
378013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3781
378214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3783 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3784 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3785 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3786 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3787 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3788 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3789 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3790 after the received time, and all would be well.
3791
379215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3793 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3794 condition in an expansion string.
3795
379616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3797
379817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3799 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3800 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3801 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3802 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3803 job under whatever limits there are.
3804
380518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3806
380719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3808 space).
3809
381020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3811 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3812 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3813 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3814 return path is set.
3815
381621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3817 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3818 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3819 binary data in such strings.
3820
382122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3822
382323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3824 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3825 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3826 failure, which is pointless.
3827
382824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3829
383025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3831
383226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3833 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3834 Sender: header lines.
3835
383627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3837 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3838 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3839
384028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3841 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3842 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3843 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3844 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3845 happens.
3846
384729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3848 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3849 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3850 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3851 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3852
385330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3854 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3855 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3856 1024.
3857
385831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3859 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3860
386132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3862 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3863
386433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3865
386632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3867
386833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3869
387034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3871 syntax error.
3872
387335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3874
387536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3876
387737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3878 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3879 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3880 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3881
388238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3883 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3884
3885
3886Exim version 4.42
3887-----------------
3888
3889 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3890 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3891 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3892 it was not quoted.
3893 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3894 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3895 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3896 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3897 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3898 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3899
3900 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3901 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3902 verification failure".
3903
3904 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3905 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3906 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3907 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3908
3909 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3910 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3911 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3912 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3913 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3914 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3915 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3916 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3917 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3918 treated as a timeout.
3919
3920 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3921 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3922 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3923 not set for Exim filters).
3924
3925 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3926 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3927 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3928
3929 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3930
3931 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3932 try to make them clearer.
3933
3934 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3935 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3936
3937 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3938
3939 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3940
394110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3942 only the Cygwin environment.
3943
394411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3945 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3946 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3947 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3948 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3949
395012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3951 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3952 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3953 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3954 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3955 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3956 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3957
395813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3959 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3960
396114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3962
3963 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3964 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3965 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3966
3967 To: susanne@some.where
3968
3969 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3970 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3971 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3972 of addresses in From: header lines).
3973
3974 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3975 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3976 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3977
3978 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3979 treated as non-personal.
3980
3981 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3982 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3983
398415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3985
398616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3987
398817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3989 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3990 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3991
399218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3993 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3994
399519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3996 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3997 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3998 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3999 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4000 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4001
400220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4003 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4004 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4005 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4006 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4007 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4008 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4009 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4010
4011 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4012
401321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4014 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4015
401622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4017 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4018 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4019
402023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4021 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4022
402324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4024 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4025 rather than long int.
4026
402725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4028
402926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4030
4031
4032Exim version 4.41
4033-----------------
4034
4035 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4036 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4037 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4038 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4039 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4040 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4041
4042
4043Exim version 4.40
4044-----------------
4045
4046 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4047 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4048
4049 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4050 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4051 socklen_t is defined.
4052
4053 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4054 always exist.
4055
4056 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4057 configured.
4058
4059 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4060 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4061 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4062 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4063 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4064
4065 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4066 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4067 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4068 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4069
4070 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4071 of flapping under certain conditions.
4072
4073 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4074 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4075 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4076
4077 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4078
407910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4080
408111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4082 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4083 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4084 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4085
408612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4087 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4088 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4089 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4090 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4091 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4092 preserved with the message after it was received.
4093
409413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4095 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4096 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4097 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4098 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4099 test suite worked just fine.
4100
410114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4102 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4103 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4104
410515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4106 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4107 string.
4108
410916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4110 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4111 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4112 does not fully solve it.
4113
411417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4115 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4116 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4117 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4118 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4119
412018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4121 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4122 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4123
412419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4125 string, for example:
4126
4127 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4128
4129 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4130 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4131 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4132 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4133 the routers could not see them.
4134
413520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4136 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4137
413821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4139 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4140 output).
4141
414222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4143 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4144 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4145 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4146 that needed quoting.
4147
414823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4149 was not being matched caselessly.
4150
415124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4152 backslashes.
4153
415425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4155 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4156 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4157 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4158 when use_sender is false.
4159
416026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4161
416227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4163
416428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4165
416629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4167 the configuration file.
4168
416930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4170 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4171
417231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4173
417432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4175 bytes in the message body.
4176
417733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4178 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4179 delivery.
4180
418134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4182
418335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4184
418536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4186 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4187 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4188 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4189 another IP address.
4190
4191
4192Exim version 4.34
4193-----------------
4194
4195 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4196 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4197
4198 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4199 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4200 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4201 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4202 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4203
4204 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4205 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4206
4207 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4208 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4209 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4210
4211 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4212 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4213 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4214
4215 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4216 for routers.
4217
4218 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4219 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4220 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4221 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4222 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4223 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4224 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4225
4226
4227Exim version 4.33
4228-----------------
4229
4230 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4231 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4232 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4233 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4234 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4235 default (and expected) setting.
4236
4237 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4238 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4239 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4240 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4241
4242 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4243 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4244
4245 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4246 in domain lists.
4247
4248 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4249 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4250 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4251 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4252 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4253 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4254
4255 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4256 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4257 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4258
4259 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4260 part (NOT match_host).
4261
4262 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4263
4264 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4265 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4266 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4267 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4268 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4269 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4270 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4271 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4272 the same named file.
4273
427410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4275 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4276 when Exim is built.
4277
427811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4279 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4280 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4281 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4282 a host name.
4283
428412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4285 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4286 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4287
428813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4289
429014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4291
429215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4293
429416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4295 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4296
429717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4298 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4299 before starting the TLS session.
4300
430118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4302
430319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4304 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4305
430620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4307 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4308 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4309 colon in the middle).
4310
4311
4312Exim version 4.32
4313-----------------
4314
4315 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4316 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4317 multiple configurations are in use.
4318
4319 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4320 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4321 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4322 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4323 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4324 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4325
4326 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4327 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4328
4329 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4330 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4331 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4332
4333 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4334 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4335 occurs.
4336
4337 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4338 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4339
4340 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4341
4342 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4343 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4344
4345 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4346
4347 -prval:sval
4348
4349 is equivalent to
4350
4351 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4352
4353 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4354 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4355 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4356 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4357 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4358
435910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4360 Exim's behaviour:
4361
4362 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4363 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4364 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4365 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4366 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4367 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4368
4369 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4370 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4371 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4372 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4373 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4374 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4375 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4376 string.
4377
4378 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4379 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4380 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4381 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4382 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4383
438411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4385
438612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4387 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4388 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4389
439013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4391
439214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4393 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4394 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4395 information.
4396
439715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4398 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4399
440016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4401 Three changes have been made:
4402
4403 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4404 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4405 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4406 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4407 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4408
4409 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4410 been restored.
4411
4412 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4413 the modified behaviour.
4414
4415
4416Exim version 4.31
4417-----------------
4418
4419 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4420 Larry Rosenman.
4421
4422 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4423 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4424
4425 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4426 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4427 try to track down a specific problem.
4428
4429 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4430 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4431 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4432
4433 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4434 warning.
4435
4436 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4437 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4438 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4439 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4440 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4441 some earlier ones do not.
4442
4443 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4444
4445 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4446 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4447 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4448 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4449 address literals are enabled, of course).
4450
4451 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4452
445310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4454 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4455 by a command such as
4456
4457 exim -f "" ...
4458
4459 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4460
446111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4462
446312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4464 remained set. It is now erased.
4465
446613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4467 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4468
446914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4470 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4471 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4472 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4473 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4474 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4475 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4476 appropriate error code.
4477
447815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4479 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4480 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4481 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4482 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4483 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4484
448516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4486 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4487 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4488
448917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4490 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4491 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4492 terminate the header.
4493
449418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4495 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4496 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4497
449819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4499 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4500 (4.30/29). In particular:
4501
4502 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4503 imposed.
4504
4505 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4506 to write a maildirsize file.
4507
4508 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4509 the transport, the new value overrides.
4510
4511 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4512 count.
4513
451420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4515 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4516 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4517 space or a tab.
4518
451921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4520 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4521 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4522 the fallback hosts.
4523
452422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4525 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4526 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4527
452823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4529 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4530 using a union.
4531
453224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4533 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4534 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4535
453625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4537
453826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4539
454027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4541
454228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4543 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4544 become corrupted.
4545
454629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4547 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4548 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4549 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4550 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4551 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4552 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4553 too great.
4554
455530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4556 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4557 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4558 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4559 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4560 incorrectly.
4561
456231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4563 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4564 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4565 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4566 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4567 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4568 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4569 cached value only when the same options are set.
4570
457132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4572
457333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4574 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4575 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4576 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4577 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4578
457934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4580 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4581 it is clearly obsolete.
4582
458335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4584 transport.
4585
458636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4587 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4588 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4589 times.
4590
459137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4592 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4593 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4594 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4595 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4596
459738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4598 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4599 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4600 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4601
460239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4603
4604 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4605
4606 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4607 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4608 2^31.
4609
461040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4611 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4612 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4613 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4614 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4615 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4616 $localpart_data.
4617
461841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4619 with the -f command-line option.
4620
462142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4622 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4623 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4624 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4625 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4626 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4627
462843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4629 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4630 line.
4631
463244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4633 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4634 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4635 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4636 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4637 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4638 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4639 buffer is too small.
4640
464145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4642 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4643
464446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4645 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4646 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4647 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4648 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4649 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4650 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4651 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4652 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4653
465447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4655 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4656 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4657
465848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4659 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4660 ACL").
4661
466249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4663 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4664 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4665 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4666 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4667
466850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4669 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4670 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4671 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4672 is set.
4673
467451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4675
467652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4677
467853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4679 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4680
468154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4682 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4683 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4684
468555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4686 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4687 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4688 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4689 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4690
469156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4692 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4693 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4694 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4695 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4696 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4697 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4698
469957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4700 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4701 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4702 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4703 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4704 the test of how many are available.
4705
470658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4707 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4708 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4709 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4710 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4711 new message is started.
4712
471359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4714 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4715
471660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4717 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4718
471961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4720 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4721 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4722 is no long logged.
4723
472462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4725 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4726 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4727 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4728 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4729 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4730 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4731
473263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4733 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4734 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4735 interpreted as octal.
4736
473764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4738 setting.
4739
474065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4741 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4742 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4743 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4744 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4745 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4746
474766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4748 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4749 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4750 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4751
4752 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4753 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4754 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4755 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4756
4757 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4758 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4759 is a bug fix.
4760
4761 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4762 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4763
476467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4765
476668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4767 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4768 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4769 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4770
477169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4772 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4773 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4774 supplied", which is not helpful.
4775
477670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4777 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4778 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4779
478071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4781 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4782 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4783 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4784 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4785 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4786 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4787 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4788
478972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4790 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4791 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4792 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4793 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4794
479573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4796 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4797 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4798 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4799 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4800 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4801
480274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4803 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4804 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4805
480675. Added write_rejectlog option.
4807
480876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4809 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4810 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4811 variables.
4812
481377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4814
481578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4816 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4817 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4818 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4819 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4820 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4821 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4822 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4823
482479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4825 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4826 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4827 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4828 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4829
483080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4831 Haardt.
4832
483381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4834 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4835 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4836 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4837 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4838 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4839 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4840 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4841 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4842
4843
4844Exim version 4.30
4845-----------------
4846
4847 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4848 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4849 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4850
4851 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4852 fixed.
4853
4854 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4855 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4856 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4857
4858 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4859 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4860 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4861 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4862 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4863 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4864
4865 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4866 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4867 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4868 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4869 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4870 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4871 the Exim test suite.
4872
4873 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4874 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4875 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4876 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4877
4878 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4879 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4880 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4881 specify it in this variable.
4882
4883 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4884 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4885 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4886 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4887
4888 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4889 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4890 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4891 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4892
4893 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4894 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4895 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4896 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4897 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4898
4899 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4900
490110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4902 they are logged.
4903
490411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4905 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4906 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4907 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4908 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4909
491012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4911 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4912
491313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4914 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4915 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4916 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4917 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4918
491914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4920 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4921
492215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4923 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4924 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4925
492616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4927 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4928
492917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4930 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4931
493218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4933 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4934 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4935
493619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4937 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4938
493920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4940 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4941 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4942 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4943
494421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4945
494622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4947 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4948 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4949 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4950
495123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4952
495324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4954 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4955
495625. Added .include_if_exists.
4957
495826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4959 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4960 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4961 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4962 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4963 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4964
496527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4966
496728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4968 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4969 this.
4970
497129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4972
497330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4974 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4975
4976 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4977 550 Sender verify failed
4978
4979 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4980 the final line of the response.
4981
498231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4983 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4984 all other user lookups.
4985
498632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4987 delivery time.
4988
498933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4990 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4991 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4992 result into an int without checking.
4993
499434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4995 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4996 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4997
499835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4999 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5000 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5001 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5002
500336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5004 correctly.
5005
500637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5007 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5008
500938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5010 to the empty sender.
5011
501239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5013 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5014 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5015 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5016 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5017 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5018 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5019 panic log.
5020
502140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5022 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5023 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5024 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5025 used.
5026
502741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5028 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5029
503042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5031 timestamps.
5032
503343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5034 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5035
503644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5037
503845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5039 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5040 logs.
5041
504246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5043 as soon as it is encountered.
5044
504547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5046
504748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5048 rewritten to "<>".
5049
505049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5051 recognizes a tab character.
5052
505350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5054 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5055 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5056 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5057
505851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5059
506052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5061 crash.
5062
506353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5064
506554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5066
506755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5068 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5069 2822.
5070
507156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5072 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5073 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5074 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5075 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5076
507757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5078 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5079
508058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5081 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5082 list (.included file names were always shown).
5083
508459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5085 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5086 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5087 root at that time.
5088
508960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5090 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5091
509261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5093
509462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5095
509663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5097
509864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5099 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5100 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5101 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5102 failures to open the logs.
5103
510465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5105 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5106 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5107 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5108 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5109 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5110 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5111
5112
5113Exim version 4.24
5114-----------------
5115
5116 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5117 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5118 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5119 change 4.23/1.
5120
5121 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5122 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5123 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5124
5125 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5126 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5127 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5128
5129 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5130 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5131 causing some misleading effects.
5132
5133 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5134 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5135 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5136
5137 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5138 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5139 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5140 queue-runner function directly.
5141
5142
5143Exim version 4.23
5144-----------------
5145
5146 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5147 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5148
5149 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5150 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5151 was always written to the default place.
5152
5153 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5154 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5155 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5156
5157 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5158
5159 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5160
5161 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5162 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5163 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5164
5165 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5166 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5167 must start.
5168
5169 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5170 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5171 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5172
5173 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5174 command line option is disabled.
5175
5176 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5177 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5178
5179 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5180
5181 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5182
5183 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5184 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5185
518610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5187
518811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5189 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5190 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5191 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5192 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5193 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5194
519512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5196 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5197 timeout.
5198
519913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5200 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5201
520214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5203 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5204
520515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5206 received was valid base64.
5207
520816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5209 name of the variable that was being set.
5210
521117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5212
521318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5214 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5215 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5216 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5217 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5218 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5219
522019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5221
522220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5223 nor realm was specified.
5224
522521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5226 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5227 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5228 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5229
523022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5231 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5232 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5233
523423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5235 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5236 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5237
523824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5239 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5240 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5241 some systems use these upper case variants.
5242
524325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5244 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5245 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5246 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5247
524826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5249
525027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5251 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5252
525328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5254 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5255 expansion variable.
5256
525729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5258
525930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5260 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5261 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5262 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5263
526431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5265 using it.
5266
526732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5268 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5269 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5270
527133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5272 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5273
527434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5275 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5276 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5277 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5278
527935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5280 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5281 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5282
528336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5284
528537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5286 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5287 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5288 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5289 aborted.
5290
529138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5292 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5293 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5294
529539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5296
529740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5298 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5299
530041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5301 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5302
530342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5304 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5305 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5306 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5307 when emails are that large.
5308
5309
5310
5311Exim version 4.22
5312-----------------
5313
5314 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5315 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5316
5317 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5318 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5319 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5320
5321 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5322 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5323 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5324
5325 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5326 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5327 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5328 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5329 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5330
5331 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5332 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5333 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5334 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5335 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5336 ever.
5337
5338 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5339 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5340 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5341 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5342 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5343 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5344 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5345 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5346 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5347 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5348 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5349 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5350 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5351 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5352
5353 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5354 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5355 parameterised it.
5356
5357 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5358 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5359 error should be diagnosed.
5360
5361 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5362 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5363 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5364 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5365 appeared instead of "NULL".
5366
536710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5368 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5369 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5370 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5371 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5372 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5373 proceeds).
5374
5375 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5376 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5377 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5378
5379
5380Exim version 4.21
5381-----------------
5382
5383 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5384 or receiver verification errors.
5385
5386 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5387 name.
5388
5389 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5390 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5391 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5392 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5393
5394 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5395 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5396 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5397 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5398 shouldn't happen again.
5399
5400 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5401 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5402 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5403
5404 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5405 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5406
5407 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5408
5409 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5410 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5411
5412 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5413 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5414 RFC.
5415
541610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5417 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5418 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5419
542011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5421 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5422 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5423 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5424
542512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5426 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5427 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5428 to define what should happen).
5429
543013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5431 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5432 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5433
543414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5435
543615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5437
543816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5439 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5440
544117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5442 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5443 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5444 structure in all cases.
5445
5446 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5447 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5448 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5449 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5450
545118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5452 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5453 domain name.
5454
545519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5456 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5457
545820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5459 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5460
546121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5462 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5463 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5464
546522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5466 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5467 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5468
546923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5470 the book and for uniformity.
5471
547224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5473
547425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5475 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5476 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5477 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5478 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5479 non-existent command as the problem.
5480
548126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5482 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5483 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5484
548527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5486
548728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5488 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5489 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5490
549129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5492 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5493 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5494 timestamps using strftime().
5495
549630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5497 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5498
549932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5500 transport-time rewrites.
5501
550233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5503 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5504 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5505 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5506
550734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5508 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5509
551035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5511 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5512 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5513 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5514 comma and a space.
5515
551636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5517 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5518 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5519 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5520 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5521 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5522 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5523
552437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5525 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5526 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5527 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5528 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5529
553038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5531 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5532 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5533 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5534 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5535 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5536 remaining text gets split now.
5537
553839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5539 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5540 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5541 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5542
554340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5544 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5545 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5546 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5547 $return_path.
5548
554941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5550 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5551 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5552 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5553 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5554 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5555 passed through if needed.
5556
555742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5558 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5559 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5560 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5561 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5562 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5563
556443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5565 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5566 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5567 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5568 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5569
557044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5571 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5572 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5573 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5574 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5575
557645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5577 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5578 noticed.
5579
558046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5581 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5582 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5583 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5584 mayhem of various kinds.
5585
558647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5587 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5588 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5589 the right test for positive values.
5590
559148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5592 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5593 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5594 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5595 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5596 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5597 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5598 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5599 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5600 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5601 envelope.
5602
560349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5604 module.
5605
560650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5607 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5608 forbidding it.
5609
561051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5611 the existing equality matching.
5612
561352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5614 dealing with inode numbers.
5615
561653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5617 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5618 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5619
562054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5621 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5622 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5623 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5624 local_scan().
5625
562655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5627 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5628 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5629 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5630 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5631 relay addresses has also been removed.
5632
563356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5634
563557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5636 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5637 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5638
563958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5640 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5641 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5642 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5643 processing applies to CR:
5644
5645 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5646 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5647
5648 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5649 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5650 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5651 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5652
565359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5654 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5655 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5656
565760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5658 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5659 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5660 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5661 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5662 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5663 arisen.
5664
566561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5666 program routers.
5667
566862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5669 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5670 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5671 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5672 adds:
5673
5674 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5675
5676 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5677
5678 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5679
568063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5681 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5682 not considered personal.
5683
568464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5685
568665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5687
568866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5689
569067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5691 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5692 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5693 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5694 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5695 header lines, and spool format errors.
5696
569768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5698 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5699 for more flexibility.
5700
570169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5702 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5703 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5704
570570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5706 Sabourenkov.
5707
570871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5709 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5710 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5711 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5712 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5713 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5714 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5715 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5716 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5717
571872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5719 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5720 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5721 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5722 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5723 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5724 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5725
572673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5727 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5728 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5729
573074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5731 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5732 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5733 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5734 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5735 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5736 instead of killing the process with assert().
5737
573875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5739 than Unicode encoding.
5740
574176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5742 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5743 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5744 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5745
574677. Added process_log_path.
5747
574878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5749 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5750
575179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5752 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5753
575480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5755 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5756 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5757
575881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5759 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5760 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5761 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5762 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5763 were applied:
5764
5765 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5766 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5767 as invalid.
5768
576982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5770 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5771 they will be used during message reception.
5772
5773
5774Exim version 4.20
5775-----------------
5776
5777The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5778
5779****