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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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11JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 14JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
16 its own TCP segment.
17
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18JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
19 each verb.
20
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21JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
22
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23JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
24
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25JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
27
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28JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
33 suitably configured).
34
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36 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
37
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38JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
39 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
40 crash could result.
41
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42JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
43 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
44
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45JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
46 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
47 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
48 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
49 to this system.
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51JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
52 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
53 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
54
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55JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
56 output.
57
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58JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
59 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
60
3c55eef2 61JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 62 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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63 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
64 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
65 input).
66
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67HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
68 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
69 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
70 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
71 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
72
7d8d08c4 73HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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74 shared (NFS) environment.
75
7d8d08c4 76HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
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77 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
78 affected.
79
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80JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
81 on some platforms for bit 31.
82
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83JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
84 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
85 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
86 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
87 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
88 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
89 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
90 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
91
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92JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
93
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94JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
95 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
96
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97JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
98 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
99 facility.
100
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101JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
102 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
103 documentation.
104
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105JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
106 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
107 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
108 not do so.
109
59c0959a 110JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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111 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
112 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
113
114JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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115 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
116 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
117 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
118 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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120JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
121 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 123JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 124 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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125 be requested on all coneections.
126
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127JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
128 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
129
6ee11061 130PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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132JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
133 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
134 one for these; the option was ignored.
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136JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
137 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
138 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
139 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
140
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141JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
142 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
143 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
144 standards.
145
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146JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
147 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
148 error ignored was made.
149
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150JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
151
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152JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
153 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
154 values, to catch one form of exploit.
155
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156JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
157 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
158 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
159
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160JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
161 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
162 causing a segfault.
163
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164JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
165 them in our smtp response.
166
9c6881f8 167JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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168 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
169 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
170 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
171 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
172
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173JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
174 link count into consideration.
175
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176HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
177 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
178
179JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
180 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
181 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
182 surprise.
183
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184HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
185
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186JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
187
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188JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
189
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193
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194JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
195 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
196
197JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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198 non-signal-safe functions being used.
199
200JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
201 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
202 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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204JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
205 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
206 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
207
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208JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
209 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
210 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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211 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
212 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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213 messed with.
214
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215PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
216 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
217
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218JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
219 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
220 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
221 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
222 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
223 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
224 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
225
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226JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
227 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
228
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229JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
230 legitimate.
231
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232JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
233 Previously this would segfault.
234
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235JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
236 segfault.
237
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238JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
239 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
240 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
241 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
242 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
243 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
244
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245JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
246
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247JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
248 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
249 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
250 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
251
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252JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
253
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254JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
255 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
256 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
257 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
258
5054c4fd 259JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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261JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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263JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
264 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
265 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
266
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267JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
268 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
269 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
270
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271PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
272
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273JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
274 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
275 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
276 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
277
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278PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
279 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
280 promised '?' replacement.
281
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282PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
283
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284JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
285 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
286 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
287 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
288 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
289
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290JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
291 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
292 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
293
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294JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
295 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
296 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
297
7ea1237c 298JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 299 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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300 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
301
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302JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
303 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
304 hope that is portable enough.
305
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306JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
307 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
308 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
309 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
310
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311JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
312 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
313 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
314
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315JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
316 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
317 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
318 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
319
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320JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
321 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
322
75c121f0 323JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 324 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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325 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
326 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
327
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328JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
329 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
330 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
331
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332JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
333 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
334 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
335 the previous G, M, k.
336
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337JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
338 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
339 it was unset.
340
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341JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
342 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
343 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
344 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
345
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346JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
347 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
348
de6f74f2 349JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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350 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
351 off past the nul-terimation.
352
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353JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
354 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
355 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
356 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
357 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
358
aa6e77af 359JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
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361JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
362 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
363 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
364 actually does fail.
365
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366AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
367 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
368
369JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
370 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
371 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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373JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
374 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
375 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
376
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377JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
378 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
379
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c39c8870 384GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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385 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
386 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
387 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
388 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
389 be defined in redis_servers.
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391GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
392 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
393
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394JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
395 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
396 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
397 extant use locations.
398
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399JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
400 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
401
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402JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
403 Previously only the last row was returned.
404
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405JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
406 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
407 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
408 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
409 input.
410
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411JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
412 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
413 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
414 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
415 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
416 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
417 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
418 Main pool for expansions.
419 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
420 active in the testsuite.
421 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
422
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423JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
424 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
425 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
426 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
427 round-robin DNS.
428
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429JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
430 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
431 failure response.
432
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433JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
434 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
435 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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437JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
438 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
439 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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441JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
442 rows affected is given instead).
443
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444JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
445 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
446
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447JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
448 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
449 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
450 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
451 for all multi-message initiating connections.
452
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453JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
454 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
455 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
456
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457JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
458 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
459 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
460 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
461 separate.
462
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463JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
464 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
465 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
466 fake-reject.
467
cf3cd306
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468HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
469
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470JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
471 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
472
aab9a843 473PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 474 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 475 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 476
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477JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
478 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
479 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
480 and send a quit.
481
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482JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
483 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
484
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485JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
486 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
487 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
488
c0635b6d
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489JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
490 for the build is renamed.
491
b808677c
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492JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
493 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
494 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
495
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496JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
497 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
498 result replacing the original.
499
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500JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
501 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
502 and the resources needed to be freed.
503
15ae19f9
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504JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
505
e6532c4a
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506JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
507 was not propagated.
508
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509JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
510 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
511 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
512 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
513
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514JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
515 length value. Previously this would segfault.
516
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517HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
518 newer versions of the scanner.
519
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520JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
521 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
522 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
523 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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524 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
525 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
526 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 527
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528JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
529 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
530 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
531 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
532 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
533 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
534 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
535 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
536 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
537 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
538
c9cf9ac4
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539JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
540 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
541
b3b37076
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542JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
543
830832c9
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544HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
545 allows proper process termination in container environments.
546
f64e8b5f
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547JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
548 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
549
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550JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
551 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
552 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
553
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554JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
555 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
556 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 557 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 558
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559JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
560 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
561 would be spooled.
562
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563PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
564 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
565
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566HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
567 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
568 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
569 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
570 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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572JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
573 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
574 lines.
575
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576JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
577 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
578
ddd16464
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579PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
580 suffix list.
581
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582JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
583 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
584 "bare" representation.
585
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586JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
587 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
588 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
589 corrupted the output.
590
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594
595JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
596 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
597 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
598 pairs of long lines into single ones.
599
856d1e16
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600PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
601 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
602
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603JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
604 This permits better logging.
605
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606JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
607 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
608 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
609 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
610 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 611 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 612
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613JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
614 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
615 "exiwhat" output.
616
98913c8e
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617PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
618 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
619 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
620
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621JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
622 than 255 are no longer allowed.
623
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624JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
625 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
626 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
627 client, there is no benefit for these.
628 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
629 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
630 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
631 is used (3.2.4 +).
632
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633PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
634 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
635
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636JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
637 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
638 erroneously found still-pending ones.
639
4e910c01
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640JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
641 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
642
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643JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
644 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
645 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
646 signature and again for transmission.
647
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648JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
649 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 650 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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652JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
653 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
654 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
655 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
656 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
657 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
658 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
659
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660JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
661 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
662 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 663 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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665PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
666 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
667 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
668 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
669 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
670 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
671 processing options.
672
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673JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
674 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
675 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
676 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
677 connections.
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679PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
680 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
681 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
682 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
683 versions.
684
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685JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
686 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
687 inaccessible.
688
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689JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
690 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
691 banner-time rejection.
692
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693JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
694 callout/hold.
695
8e041ae0
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696PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
697 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
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698 Fixes bug 2140.
699
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700HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
701
4226691b
JH
702JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
703 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
704
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705JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
706 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
707 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
708 during compilation.
709
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710JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
711 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
712 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 713 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 714
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715JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
716 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
717 initial verify call returned a defer.
718
ad1a76fe 719JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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720 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
721
ad1a76fe
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722JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
723 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
724
135e9496
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725JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
726 if present. Previously it was ignored.
727
f2ed27cf
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728JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
729 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
730
7eb0e5d2
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731JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
732 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
733 extensible.
734
4f9f4be4
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735PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
736 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
737
dc4de9cc
PP
738PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
739 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
740 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
741
ea18931d
JH
742JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
743 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
744 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
745 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
746
0768462d 747HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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748 and confused the parent.
749
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750JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
751 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
752
9e0ed81f
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753JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
754 for log purposes.
755
2540f2f8
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756JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
757 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
758 out-of-order delivery.
759
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760JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
761 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
762 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
763 error for the HELO.
764
e99a3a6c
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765JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
766 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
767 desynchronisation.
768
18067c75
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769JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
770 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
771 one run was done. Bug 2189.
772
72934ba7
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773JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
774 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
775 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
776 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
777 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
778 message is still "Temporary local problem".
779
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780JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
781 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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782 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
783
784HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
785 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
786 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 787
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788JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
789 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
790 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
791 though a different problem.
792
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9427e879 797JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 798 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 799
7b283890
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800JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
801
4c57a40e
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802PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
803 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
804
5d036699
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805JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
806 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
807
f4630439
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808JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
809 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
810 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
811 before acknowledging the chunk.
812
f988ce57
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813PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
814 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
815 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
816
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817JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
818 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
819 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
820 should.
821
822JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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823 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
824 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 825
bd8fbe36 826JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
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827 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
828
bd8fbe36
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829JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
830 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
831 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
832 body hash calculated value.
833
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834JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
835 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
836 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
837
44e6651b
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838JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
839
840JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
841 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
842
843JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
844 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
845 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
846
847JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
848 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
849 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
850 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
851 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
852 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
853
854JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
855 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
856 past that check, despite the cost.
857
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858JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
859 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
860 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
861
f700ea4d
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862PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
863 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
864 TLS library to consume.
865
da88acae
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866PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
867
f6ef9370
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868PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
869
90341c71
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870JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
871 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
872 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
873 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
874 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
875 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
876 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
877
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878PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
879
880PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
881
882PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
883 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
884 should be warning-free.
885
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886JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
887
888HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
889 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
890
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891HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
892 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
893 general solution here.
894
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895PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
896 already-broken messages in the queue.
897
4bb432cb
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898JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
899
3b1a84c8
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900JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
901
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906JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
907 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 908
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909JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
910 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
911 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
912
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913JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
914 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
915 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
916 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
917 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
918 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
919 if one fails this test.
920 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
921 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
922
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923JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
924 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
925
23bb6982 926JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 927 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 928
0bd1b1ed 929JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 930 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 931
20b9a2dc
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932JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
933 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
934
05392bbc
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935JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
936 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
937
1a6230a3
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938JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
939
cfab9d68
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940JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
941 certificate).
942
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943JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
944 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
945 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
946 connection after a verify cache hit.
947 Do not update it with the verify result either.
948
949JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
950 when routing results in more than one destination address.
951
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952JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
953 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
954 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
955 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
956 when the cutthrough connection is made).
957
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958JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
959 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
960
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961JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
962 Previously they were not counted.
963
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964JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
965 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
966 that needed the lookup.
967
4c04137d 968JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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969 distinguished as "(=".
970
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971JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
972 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
973
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974JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
975
976JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
977 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 978
4c04137d 979JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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980 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
981
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982JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
983 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
984 compatible.
985
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986JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
987 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
988 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
989 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
990
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991JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
992
f59aaaaa 993JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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994 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
995 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 996
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997JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
998 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
999 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1000 be lost.
1001
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1002JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1003 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1004 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1005 itself :(
1006
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1007JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1008 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1009 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1010
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1011JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1012 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1013 options.
1014
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1015JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1016
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1017PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1018 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1019
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1020PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1021 are not in the system include path.
1022
ad7fc6eb 1023JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1024 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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1025 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1026 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1027
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1028JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1029 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1030 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1031
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1032JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1033
8d73599f
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1034HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1035 an incoming connection.
1036
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1037HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1038 to rspamd.
1039
8e53a4fc
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1040HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1041 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1042
87cb4a16 1043JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1044 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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1045
1046
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1050JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1051 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1052 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1053 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1054
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1055TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1056 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1057
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1058TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1059 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1060 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1061 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1062 outgoing I= field.
1063
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1064JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1065 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1066 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1067 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1068 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1069 check on the next write.
1070
f1b81d81
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1071HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1072 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1073 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1074 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1075 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1076
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1077JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1078 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1079
895fbaf2
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1080JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1081 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1082 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1083
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1084JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1085 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1086 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1087 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1088
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1089HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1090 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1091
4c04137d 1092JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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1093 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1094
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1095JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1096 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1097 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1098 distinct.
1099
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1100JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1101
1102JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1103
ec0eb1a3
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1104JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1105
41e93589
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1106JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1107 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1108
98b98887 1109JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1110 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1111
98b98887
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1112JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1113
858e91c2
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1114JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1115 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1116
1117JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1118
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1119JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1120 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1121
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1122JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1123
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1124JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1125 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1126 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1127 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1128 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1129 they will retry in-clear.
1130 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1131 at installation time.
1132
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1133HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1134 with the $config_file variable.
1135
5ef5dd52
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1136JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1137 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1138 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1139 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1140 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1141
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1142GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1143 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1144 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1145 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1146 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1147
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1148JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1149
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1150JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1151 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1152 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1153 list order is no longer honoured.
1154
4c04137d 1155JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1156 for DKIM processing.
1157
f0989ec0
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1158JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1159 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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1161JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1162 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1163 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1164 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1165
8c5d388a
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1166JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1167 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1168
2d8d625b
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1169JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1170 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1171
0cbf2b82
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1172JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1173 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1174
f2f2c91b
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1175JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1176
ce325893
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1177JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1178 cached by the daemon.
1179
de78e2d5
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1180JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1181 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1182
379ba7d0
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1183JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1184 keys are given for lookup.
1185
f444c2c7
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1186JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1187 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1188 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1189 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1190
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1191JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1192 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1193 server-side so match that on older versions.
1194
07c73177 1195JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1196 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1197 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1198
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1199JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1200 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1201
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1202JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1203 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1204 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1205 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1206 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1207 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1208 initial truncated version.
1209
ab9152ff 1210JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1211
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1212JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1213
ab9152ff
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1214JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1215 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1216
af483912
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1217JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1218
bc3c7bb7 1219HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1220
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1221JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1222 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1223 induced overflows.
1224
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1225JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1226 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1227 stage.
1228
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1229JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1230 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1231
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1232JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1233 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1234 former class.
1235
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1236JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1237 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1238 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1239
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1240JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1241 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1242 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1243 extraction. Accept either.
1244
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1249JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1250 expanded.
1251
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1252JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1253
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1254JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1255 it.
1256
01a4a5c5 1257JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1258 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1259 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1260 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1261
cb1d7830 1262JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1263 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1264 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1265
610ff438 1266JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1267 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1268 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1269 TLS connections
610ff438 1270
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1271JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1272 sites use this now.
1273
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1274JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1275 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1276 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1277 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1278 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1279
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1280JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1281 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1282 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1283
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1284JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1285
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1286JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1287 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1288
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1289JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1290 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1291
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1292JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1293 /defer_ok option.
1294
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1295JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1296 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1297
fd4d8871 1298JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1299 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1300 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1301
1302JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1303 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1304 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1305
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1306JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1307 timeout value per server.
1308
2ad78978
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1309JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1310 now have the list separator specified.
1311
8a512ed5 1312JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1313 option values.
8a512ed5 1314
82c0c8ea 1315JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1316 under OpenSSL.
1317
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1318JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1319
82c0c8ea
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1320JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1321 rather than the verbs used.
1322
b980ed83
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1323JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1324 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1325
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1326JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1327
cfab9d68 1328HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1329 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1330
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1331JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1332 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1333
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1334HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1335 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1336
4c04137d 1337JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1338
d2a2c69b
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1339JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1340
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1341JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1342 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1343 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1344 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1345
1f12df4d
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1346JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1347
1f155f8e
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1348JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1349 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1350
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1351JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1352 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1353
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1354JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1355
474f71bf
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1356JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1357
7137ca4b
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1358JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1359
dcb1095c
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1360JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1361 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1362
2f460950
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1363JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1364 added for tls authenticator.
1365
2f680c0c
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1366HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1367
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1372TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1373 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1374 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1375 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1376 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1377 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1378 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1379
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1380TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1381 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1382 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1383 function when detected.
1384
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1385JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1386 cause callback expansion.
1387
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1388TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1389 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1390 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1391 instead of bool when processing it.
1392
0f06b4f2 1393JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1394 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1395
be36e572
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1396JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1397
ac4ef9bd
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1398JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1399
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1400TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1401
c713ca4b
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1402TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1403 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1404
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1405JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1406 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1407 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1408 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1409 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1410 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1411
8bc732e8
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1412JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1413 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1414 exceeded it.
1415
a7fec7a7
JH
1416JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1417 version 3.3.6 or later.
1418
4c04137d 1419JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1420 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1421 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1422 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1423 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1424 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1425 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1426
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1427TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1428 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1429
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1430JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1431 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1432 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1433 matches.
1434
e9477a08
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1435JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1436 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1437 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1438
ad4c5ff9
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1439JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1440 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1441
1442JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1443 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1444 syntax errors.
1445
3394b36a 1446JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1447
1448JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1449 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1450
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1451TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1452 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1453 tarball.
1454
ad4c5ff9
JH
1455JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1456
4c04137d 1457JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1458 Bug 1561.
1459
1460JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1461 output list separator was used.
1462
8bc732e8 1463
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1464Exim version 4.84
1465-----------------
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1466TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1467 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1468 return.
1f0ebb98 1469
a612424f 1470JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1471 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1472
1473JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1474
1475TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1476 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1477
1f0ebb98 1478
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1479Exim version 4.83
1480-----------------
1481
1482TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1483
1484 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1485 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1486 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1487 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1488 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1489 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1490
7245734e
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1491TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1492 utilities have not been installed.
1493
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1494JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1495 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1496
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1497TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1498 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1499
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1500TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1501 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1502 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1503 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1504
aa26e137
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1505JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1506
5a1b8443
WB
1507TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1508 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1509
72c9e342
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1510PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1511 not dns_use_dnssec.
1512
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WB
1513JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1514
770747fd
MFM
1515TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1516 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1517 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1518
8ddef691 1519TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1520 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1521 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1522 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1523 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1524 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1525
b9c2e32f
AR
1526JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1527
e45a1c37
JH
1528JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1529 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1530
67d81c10
JH
1531JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1532 failed delivery.
1533
b1f8e4f8
JH
1534JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1535
511a6c14 1536JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1537
1538JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1539 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1540
51c7471d
JH
1541JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1542 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1543
3695be34
TL
1544TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1545
1e06383a
TL
1546JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1547
76146973
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1548JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1549 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1550
1551 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1552 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1553 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1554
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TL
1555TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1556 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1557 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1558 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1559
35aba663
JH
1560JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1561
8c51eead 1562JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1563 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1564 lookup).
8c51eead 1565
deae092e
HS
1566TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1567 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1568 Schlichting.
35aba663 1569
fd3b6a4a 1570JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1571 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1572
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1573TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1574 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1575
2b4a568d
JH
1576JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1577
d2af03f4
HS
1578TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1579 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1580 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1581
9d1c15ef
JH
1582JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1583 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1584
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1585JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1586 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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1587 hosts_request_ocsp.
1588
ed3bba5f 1589JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1590 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1591 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1592
8ccd00b1
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1593JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1594
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1595TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1596 Christian Aistleitner.
1597
f2de3a33
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1598JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1599
6eb02f88
TL
1600TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1601 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1602
00bff6f6
JH
1603JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1604 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1605
071c51f7
JH
1606JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1607 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1608
a6d4c44e
TF
1609TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1610 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1611
3ae173e7
ACK
1612TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1613 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1614
c13d09b8
TL
1615TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1616 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1617 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1618
0df4ab80
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1619JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1620
66be95e0
PP
1621PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1622 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1623 Jasper Wallace.
1624
1bd0d12b
JH
1625JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1626
0de7239e
TL
1627TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1628 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1629 CVE-2014-2972
1630
fd3b6a4a 1631
2c422e6f 1632Exim version 4.82
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1633-----------------
1634
1635PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1636
12f69989
PP
1637PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1638 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1639
54c90be1
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1640PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1641 by GnuTLS.
1642
1f4a55da
PP
1643PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1644 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1645 routines.
1646
13363eba 1647PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1648
66645890 1649PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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PP
1650 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1651 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1652 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1653 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1654
a3fb9793 1655PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1656 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1657 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1658 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1659 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1660 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1661
d27f98fe 1662TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1663
6822b909
TL
1664TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1665
e7568d51
TL
1666TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1667 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1668
ae0e32ee 1669TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1670 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1671 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1672
1673TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1674
e2658fff
TL
1675TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1676
83712b39
TL
1677TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1678 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1679
976b7e9f
JH
1680JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1681
be4a1376
JH
1682JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1683
ec4b68e5
PP
1684PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1685
d7148a07
NM
1686NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1687 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1688
585121e2 1689JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1690
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TL
1691PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1692 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1693 function.
a5f239e4 1694
13d08c90
PP
1695PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1696 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1697
bef3ea7f
JH
1698JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1699 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1700 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1701
846726c5
JH
1702JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1703
3a796370
JH
1704JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1705
ea722490 1706JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1707 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1708
b1b05573
JH
1709JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1710 Bugzilla 884.
1711
362145b5
JH
1712JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1713 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1714
3c0a92dc
JH
1715JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1716 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1717
6d7c6175
PP
1718PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1719 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1720 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1721
6f123593
JH
1722JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1723 authenticators.
1724
c8e2fc1e
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1725JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1726 for control.
1727
005ac57f
PP
1728PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1729
3f1df0e3
PP
1730PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1731 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1732 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1733 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1734
67bd1ab3
TF
1735TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1736
1737 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1738 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1739 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1740 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1741 the retry rules.
1742
1743 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1744 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1745 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1746
1747 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1748 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1749 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1750 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1751
1ddeb334
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1752 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1753 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1754 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1755 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1756 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1757 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1758 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1759
1760 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1761 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1762
326cdc37
TF
1763TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1764
1765 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1766
1767 Resent-From: f
1768
1769 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1770 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1771 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1772 username as equal to the username.
1773
1774 This change corrects that bug.
1775
f62514b3
GF
1776GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1777 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1778 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1779
eb505532
TF
1780TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1781
14c7b357
PP
1782PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1783 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1784 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1785 NULL dereference and crash.
1786
94eaf700
PP
1787JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1788
6f5a440a
PP
1789PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1790 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1791 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1792
514ee161
SC
1793SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1794
fd98a5c6
JH
1795JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1796 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1797 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1798 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1799 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1800 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1801 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1802 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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1803 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1804 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1805 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1806
035c7f1e
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1807PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1808 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1809
ff284120
PP
1810PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1811 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1812 Bugzilla 880.
1813
26e72755
PP
1814PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1815 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1816 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1817 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1818 an empty string is now equivalent.
1819
0fbd9bff
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1820PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1821 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1822 not performing validation itself.
1823
700d22f3
PP
1824PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1825 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1826
fcc8e047
JH
1827JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1828 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1829
4c04137d 1830TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1831
8c020188
PP
1832PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1833 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1834 other false fix of the same issue.
1835 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1836 Bugzilla 1363.
1837
d13cdd30
PP
1838PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1839 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1840
e2fbf4a2
PP
1841PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1842 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1843 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1844
f4c1088b
PP
1845PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1846 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1847 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1848
c5c2182f
PP
1849TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1850
73431ca9
JH
1851JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1852
2d07a215
TL
1853TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1854 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1855
a30a8861
TL
1856TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1857 Alexander Miroch.
1858
33382dd9
TL
1859TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1860 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1861 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1862 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1863 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1864
046172e6
TL
1865TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1866 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1867
581d7bee 1868TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1869 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1870 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1871
1872TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1873 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1874 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1875 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1876
237b2cf2
TL
1877TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1878
9fc5a352
TL
1879TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1880 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1881 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1882
b10e4ec2
TL
1883TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1884
e2cebd74
TL
1885TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1886 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1887 interaction.
1888
1889TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1890 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1891
2519e60d
TL
1892TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1893 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1894
e78e6ecf 1895
4263f395
PP
1896Exim version 4.80.1
1897-------------------
1898
1899PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1900 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1901 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1902
ea722490 1903
b1770b6e 1904Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1905-----------------
1906
1907PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1908 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1909 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1910
23c7e742
NM
1911NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1912
b322aac8
NM
1913NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1914 improved.
1915
4a891427
NM
1916NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1917
c1e794ba 1918PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1919
97753960
PP
1920PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1921
1922PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1923 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1924
df6303fa
PP
1925PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1926 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1927
7e6a8985
PP
1928PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1929 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1930
f1e05cc7 1931PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1932 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1933 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1934
4c287009
PP
1935PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1936
b98bb9ac
PP
1937PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1938 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1939
4a6a987a
PP
1940PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1941
c45dd180 1942PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1943
7db8d074
PP
1944PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1945 non-compliant senders.
1946 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1947
eae0036b 1948NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1949 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1950 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1951
dec5017e
PP
1952PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1953 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1954 in spool file corruption.
1955
c80c5570
PP
1956PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1957 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1958 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1959 "Got SSL error 2".
1960
076b11e2
PP
1961TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1962 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1963 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1964
5407bfff
JH
1965JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1966 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1967
9e45c72b
PP
1968JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1969
e74376d8
PP
1970PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1971 diagnostics.
1972 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1973
4c04137d 1974PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1975 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1976 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1977
7be682ca
PP
1978PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1979 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1980 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1981 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1982
ef840681
PP
1983PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1984 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1985
5bfb4cdf
PP
1986PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1987 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1988 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1989 resolver implementation change.
1990
c6e95d22
PP
1991PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1992 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1993
9cbad13b
PP
1994PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1995
9ee44efb
PP
1996PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1997
6a6084f8
PP
1998PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1999 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2000
12dd53c7
PP
2001PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2002 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2003
9e45c72b 2004JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2005 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2006
17c76198
PP
2007PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2008 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2009 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2010 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2011 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2012
53947857 2013PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2014
eae0036b 2015PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2016 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2017 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2018
9e45c72b 2019JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2020
7390e768
PP
2021PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2022 read-only, out of scope).
2023 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2024
08488c86
PP
2025PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2026 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2027 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2028 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2029
6475bd82
PP
2030PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2031
81f91683
PP
2032PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2033 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2034 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2035 real issues in debug logging.
2036
5779e6aa
PP
2037PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2038 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2039
3375e053
PP
2040PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2041 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2042 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2043
2044PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2045 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2046 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2047 problems.
3375e053 2048
9d26b8c0
PP
2049PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2050 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2051
57eb9e91 2052PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2053 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2054 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2055 needs to override this, it can.
2056
16880d1a
PP
2057PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2058 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2059 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2060
a799883d
PP
2061PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2062 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2063 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2064 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2065
3ecab157 2066PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2067
0599f9cf 2068
867fcbf5
PP
2069Exim version 4.77
2070-----------------
2071
2072PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2073 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2074
f1a29782
TF
2075TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2076
ab42bd23
TK
2077TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2078 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2079
0ca0cf52
TF
2080TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2081 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2082
921b12ca
TF
2083TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2084 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2085 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2086
2087 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2088 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2089 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2090 not safe for signals.
2091
2092 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2093 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2094 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2095 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2096 exiwhat.
2097
c99ce5c9
TF
2098TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2099
2100 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2101 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2102 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2103 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2104 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2105
2106 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2107 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2108 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2109 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2110 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2111 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2112
2113 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2114 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2115 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2116 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2117
2118 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2119 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2120 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2121 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2122
2123 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2124 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2125 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2126 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2127 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2128 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2129 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2130 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2131 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2132
2133 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2134 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2135 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2136 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2137
2138 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2139 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2140 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2141 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2142 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2143 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2144 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2145 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2146 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2147 details in the main documentation.
2148
3634fc25
TF
2149TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2150
792e8a19
TF
2151TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2152
5901f0ab
TF
2153TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2154 repository when doing development or release builds.
2155
7f2a2a43
PP
2156PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2157 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2158
061b7ebd
PP
2159PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2160 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2161 Bugzilla 97.
2162
e12f8c32
PP
2163PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2164
9e949f00 2165PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2166 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2167
2168PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2169 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2170
555ae6af 2171PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2172 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2173
2174PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2175 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2176
6f7fe114
PP
2177PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2178 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2179
c566dd90
PP
2180PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2181 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2182 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2183 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2184
d6cc7c78 2185PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2186 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2187 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2188
0d0e4455
PP
2189PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2190
3399bb60 2191PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2192
2193PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2194 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2195
0ca0cf52 2196
10906672
PP
2197Exim version 4.76
2198-----------------
2199
2200PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2201
754a0503
PP
2202PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2203 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2204
c0c7b2da
PP
2205PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2206
e97d1f08
PP
2207PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2208
084c1d8c
PP
2209PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2210 Bugzilla 1098.
2211
4e7ee012
PP
2212PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2213 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2214
c8d52a00
PP
2215TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2216 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2217
54e7ce4a
PP
2218PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2219 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2220
5ee6f336
PP
2221PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2222 Bugzilla 1104.
2223
c8d52a00 2224TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2225 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2226
2227TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2228 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2229 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2230 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2231
2232PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2233 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2234
10906672 2235
aa097c4c
NM
2236Exim version 4.75
2237-----------------
2238
4c04137d 2239NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2240 Bugzilla 1073
2241
7f3d9eff
TF
2242TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2243 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2244 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2245
159f52d2
TF
2246TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2247 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2248
0cc9542a
PP
2249PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2250 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2251 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2252
f7274286
PP
2253PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2254 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2255
7b797365
PP
2256PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2257 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2258
caacae52
NM
2259NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2260 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2261
09dcaba9
NM
2262NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2263 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2264
bc19a55b
PP
2265PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2266 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2267
bd4c9759
NM
2268NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2269 Fixes bug 943.
2270
b72aab72
PP
2271PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2272 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2273
2fe76745
PP
2274PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2275 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2276
76aa570c
PP
2277PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2278 SQL string expansion failure details.
2279 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2280
f1e5fef5
PP
2281PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2282 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2283
4d805ee9
PP
2284PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2285 extern declarations in function scope.
2286 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2287
cd59ab18
PP
2288PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2289 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2290 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2291 a kernel bug).
2292
332f5cf3
PP
2293PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2294 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2295
29cfeb94
PP
2296PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2297 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2298
660242ad
PP
2299PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2300 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2301
bc4bc4c5
PP
2302PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2303 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2304
2e64baa9
NM
2305NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2306 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2307 Dennis Davis.
2308
4c04137d 2309PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2310
6bac1a9a
PP
2311PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2312
552193f0
NM
2313NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2314 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2315
1b587e48
TF
2316TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2317 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2318
aa097c4c 2319
8c07b69f
TF
2320Exim version 4.74
2321-----------------
2322
2323TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2324 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2325
c0ea85ab
TF
2326TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2327 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2328
0761d44e
TF
2329TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2330
0a349494
PP
2331DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2332 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2333 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2334
2335PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2336 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2337 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2338
fea24b2e
PP
2339PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2340 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2341 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2342 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2343
6545de78
PP
2344PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2345 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2346 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2347 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2348
1670ef10
PP
2349PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2350 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2351 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2352 arbitrary files.
2353
c0886197
PP
2354PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2355 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2356
b7487bce
PP
2357PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2358 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2359 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2360 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2361 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2362
8c07b69f 2363
97fd1e48 2364Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2365-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2366
2367PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2368 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2369 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2370
6901c596
PP
2371PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2372 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2373
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2374JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2375
77bb000f
PP
2376PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2377
a29e5231
PP
2378PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2379
ec5a0394 2380PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2381
55c75993
PP
2382PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2383
453a6645 2384PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2385 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2386 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2387 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2388
8544e77a
PP
2389PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2390 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2391 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2392 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2393 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2394
83e029d5
PP
2395PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2396
ed7f7860
PP
2397PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2398
7d9f747b
PP
2399PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2400
4b2241d2
PP
2401PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2402
10385c15
PP
2403PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2404
dbc4b90d
PP
2405PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2406
532be449
PP
2407PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2408
6a8de854 2409PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2410 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2411 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2412
5dc43717
JJ
2413JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2414
2415JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2416 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2417
3346ab01
PP
2418PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2419 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2420
491fab4c
PP
2421PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2422 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2423 Notification from John Horne.
2424
13eb9497
PP
2425PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2426 compatible.
2427
2428PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2429 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2430 it normally works.
2431
7f36d675
DW
2432DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2433 access.
2434
c1d94452
DW
2435DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2436 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2437 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2438
e2f5dc15
DW
2439DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2440 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2441 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2442 configuration file.
2443
cd25e41d
DW
2444DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2445 option (effectively making it always true).
2446
261dc43e
DW
2447DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2448 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2449
fa32850b
DW
2450DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2451 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2452
79d4bc3d
PP
2453PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2454 run-time user, instead of root.
2455
43236f35 2456PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2457 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2458
fb08281f
DW
2459DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2460 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2461 arguments.
3346ab01 2462
74935b98
DW
2463DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2464 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2465 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2466
90b6341f
DW
2467DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2468
57730b52
ML
2469NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2470
66581d1e 2471
465e92cf
JJ
2472Exim version 4.72
2473-----------------
2474
453a6645
PP
2475JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2476 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2477 typos
465e92cf 2478
453a6645
PP
2479JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2480 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2481 (Finput)
edae0343 2482
9bd3e22c
NM
2483NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2484 Patch from Alain Williams
2485
bb576ff7
NM
2486NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2487
5a1a5845
NM
2488NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2489 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2490
981a9fad
NM
2491NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2492 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2493
7fc497ee
NM
2494NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2495
1a41defa
JJ
2496JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2497
a466095c 2498NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2499 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2500
94a6bd0b
NM
2501TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2502
2503TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2504
2505MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2506 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2507 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2508
c1b141a8
NM
2509NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2510 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2511
b26eacf1 2512NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2513 Patch by Simon Arlott
2514
179c5980 2515PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2516 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2517
9bd3e22c 2518
7c6d71af
NM
2519Exim version 4.71
2520-----------------
2521
7d9f747b 2522TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2523
f013fb92
NM
2524NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2525
0eb8eedd
NM
2526NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2527
663ee6d9
NM
2528NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2529
177ebd9b
NM
2530NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2531
7c6d71af 2532
210f147e
NM
2533Exim version 4.70
2534-----------------
2535
cdd3bb85 2536TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2537 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2538
2539TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2540 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2541 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2542
2543TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2544 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2545 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2546
2547TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2548 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2549
210f147e
NM
2550NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2551 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2552 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2553 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2554
deafd5b3
NM
2555NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2556 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2557 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2558
089793a4
TF
2559TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2560
5f16ca82
TF
2561TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2562
dae9d94e 2563NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2564 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2565
7d9f747b 2566NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2567
06864c44
TF
2568TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2569 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2570 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2571 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2572
65a7d8c3 2573NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2574 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2575
23510047 2576TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2577
7d9f747b 2578NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2579
7d8eec3a 2580NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2581 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2582
89dec7b6
TF
2583TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2584 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2585
a99de90c
TF
2586TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2587 that they are available at delivery time.
2588
e2803e40
TF
2589TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2590
7199e1ee
TF
2591TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2592 incoming_port log selectors.
2593
e276e04b
TF
2594TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2595 setting expands to an empty string.
2596
ce552449 2597NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2598 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2599
e765a0f1 2600NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2601 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2602
4f054c63 2603NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2604 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2605
7d9f747b
PP
2606NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2607 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2608
7d9f747b
PP
2609NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2610 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2611
b52bc06e 2612NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2613 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2614
447de4b0
NM
2615NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2616
4c69d561 2617NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2618 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2619
d5c39246 2620NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2621 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2622
0b23848a
TK
2623TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2624
8f3414a1 2625NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2626 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2627
fb6f955d
NM
2628NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2629
2630NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2631
7d9f747b
PP
2632NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2633 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2634
7d9f747b
PP
2635NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2636 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2637
7d9f747b
PP
2638NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2639 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2640
7d9f747b
PP
2641NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2642 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2643
7d9f747b
PP
2644NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2645 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2646
7d9f747b
PP
2647NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2648 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2649
7d9f747b
PP
2650NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2651 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2652
7d9f747b 2653NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2654 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2655
7d9f747b 2656NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2657
7d9f747b
PP
2658NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2659 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2660
7d9f747b 2661NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2662
7d9f747b 2663NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2664
7d9f747b 2665NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2666
7d9f747b 2667NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2668
17792b53 2669NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2670 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2671
7d9f747b
PP
2672NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2673 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2674
91576cec 2675NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2676 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2677
7d9f747b
PP
2678NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2679 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2680
7d9f747b 2681NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2682
7d9f747b 2683NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2684
7d9f747b 2685NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2686
7d9f747b 2687NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2688
deafd5b3 2689
47db1125
NM
2690Exim version 4.69
2691-----------------
2692
4b3504d0
TK
2693TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2694 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2695 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2696
2697 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2698 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2699 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2700 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2701 build errors in sieve.c.
2702
81ea09ca
NM
2703NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2704 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2705 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2706
f13cddcb
SC
2707SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2708
7d9f747b 2709NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2710
7d9f747b 2711NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2712
7d9f747b 2713NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2714
2715
eb4c0de6
PH
2716Exim version 4.68
2717-----------------
2718
2719PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2720
6a3bceb1
PH
2721PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2722 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2723 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2724 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2725 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2726 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2727 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2728 for iplsearch lookups.
2729
2730 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2731 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2732 previously such lookups could never work.
2733
4c04137d 2734 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2735 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2736 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2737
2e30fa9d
TK
2738TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2739 version.
2740
0806a9c5
MH
2741MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2742 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2743 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2744 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2745 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2746 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2747
ae276964
TK
2748TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2749 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2750
0f2cbd1b
MH
2751MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2752 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2753 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2754 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2755 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2756 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2757
2b85bce7
PH
2758PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2759 local_scan API.
2760
93655c46
PH
2761PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2762
6c512171
PH
2763PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2764 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2765 encrypted.
2766
2767PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2768 by clients under certain conditions.
2769
aa6dc513
PH
2770PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2771 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2772
a96603a0
PH
2773PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2774
8f240103
PH
2775PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2776 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2777
2778PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2779
d677b2f2
PH
2780PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2781
d52120f2
PH
2782PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2783
64f2600a
PH
2784PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2785 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2786
8669f003
PH
2787PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2788
a4dc33a8
PH
2789PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2790 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2791
d6a60c0f
PH
2792PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2793
8f128379
PH
2794PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2795
8932dffe
PH
2796PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2797 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2798 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2799 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2800
ddea74fa 2801PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2802 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2803 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2804
ddea74fa 2805PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2806 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2807
ddea74fa
PH
2808PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2809
ce9f225c
PH
2810PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2811
19897d52
PH
2812PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2813
bc64a74d
PH
2814PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2815 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2816 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2817
eb4c0de6 2818
b4ed4da0
PH
2819Exim version 4.67
2820-----------------
2821
22ad45c9
MH
2822MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2823 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2824 Jan Srzednicki.
2825
b4ed4da0
PH
2826PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2827 issue a MAIL command.
2828
431b7361
PH
2829PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2830
2831 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2832
2833 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2834 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2835 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2836 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2837 item. This has been fixed.
2838
2839PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2840 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2841
83da1223
PH
2842PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2843 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2844
54fc8428
PH
2845PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2846 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2847 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2848
34c5e8dd
SC
2849SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2850
bbe15da8
PH
2851PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2852 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2853 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2854 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2855 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2856
0e8a9471
MH
2857MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2858 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2859 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2860
f0872424
PH
2861PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2862 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2863 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2864 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2865
b01dd148
PH
2866PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2867
6bf342e1
PH
2868PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2869
273f34d0
PH
2870PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2871 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2872 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2873 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2874 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2875
cf8b11a5
PH
2876PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2877
41c7c167
PH
2878PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2879 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2880 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2881 values).
2882
9c57cbc0
PH
2883PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2884
f3f065bb
PH
2885PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2886
047bdd8c
PH
2887PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2888
0ce9abe6
PH
2889PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2890
0e22dfd1
PH
2891PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2892
4c590bd1
PH
2893PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2894 no_callout_flush is set.
2895
09945f1e
PH
2896PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2897 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2898 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2899 fixed.
2900
c51b8e75
PH
2901PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2902
e28326d8 2903PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2904 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2905 other ACL rejections are.
2906
75b1493f
PH
2907PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2908 with slight modification.
2909
7c5214ec
PH
2910PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2911 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2912
4311097e
PH
2913PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2914 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2915 connection.
2916
29f89cad
PH
2917PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2918 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2919
5e687460
SC
2920SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2921
c3611384
PH
2922PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2923 expansion side effects.
2924
5a11a7b4
PH
2925PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2926 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2927 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2928 be the same.
2929
0e20aff9
MH
2930MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2931 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2932 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2933
ca86f471
PH
2934PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2935 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2936 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2937 were accidentally chopped off.
2938
a14e5636
PH
2939PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2940 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2941 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2942 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2943 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2944 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2945 pipelining has not been advertised.
2946
ec95d1a6
PH
2947PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2948
42855d71
PH
2949PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2950 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2951 This has been fixed.
2952
57c2c631
PH
2953PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2954 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2955 reported on Solaris.
2956
58c01c94
PH
2957PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2958 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2959 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2960 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2961 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2962 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2963 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2964
dee5a20a
PH
2965PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2966 cpus.
2967
d2ee6114
PH
2968PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2969
b2d5182b
PH
2970PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2971
79749a79
PH
2972PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2973 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2974 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2975 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2976 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2977 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2978
c456d9bb
PH
2979PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2980 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2981 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2982 host_all_ignored option.
2983
cd9868ec
PH
2984PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2985 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2986 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2987 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2988 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2989 is what is supposed to happen).
2990
ebeaf996
PH
2991PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2992 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2993 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2994 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2995 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2996 uses the Exim user.
2997
2679d413
PH
2998PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2999 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3000 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3001 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3002 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3003 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3004 users.
3005
84024b72
PH
3006PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3007
8005d38e
SC
3008SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3009 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3010 (Jez Hancock).
3011 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3012 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3013
3298c6c6
SC
3014SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3015
a43a27c5
PH
3016PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3017
58eb016e 3018PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3019 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3020 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3021 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3022 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3023 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3024 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3025 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3026 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3027 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3028 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3029
b43a74ea
PH
3030PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3031 advertised in response to EHLO.
3032
b4ed4da0 3033
5dd1517f
PH
3034Exim version 4.66
3035-----------------
3036
3037PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3038 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3039
3040 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3041 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3042
3043 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3044 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3045 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3046
3047 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3048 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3049 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3050 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3051 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3052
3053
93cfa765
TK
3054Exim version 4.65
3055-----------------
3056
3057TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3058 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3059 versions. (#438)
3060
d6066548
MH
3061MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3062 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3063 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3064
4362ff0d
PH
3065PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3066 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3067 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3068 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3069 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3070 rather than extend the field.
3071
93cfa765 3072
944e9e9c
TF
3073Exim version 4.64
3074-----------------
aa41d2de 3075
21d74bd9
TK
3076TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3077 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3078 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3079 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3080 these files.
3081
3082TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3083 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3084 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3085
3086TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3087 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3088 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3089
3090TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3091 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3092 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3093 in the field name.
3094
2b1c6e3a
PH
3095PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3096 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3097 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3098 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3099 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3100 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3101 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3102 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3103 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3104 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3105 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3106
1f872c80
PH
3107PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3108 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3109
3110PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3111 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3112 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3113 ignores EPIPE as well.
3114
d203e649
PH
3115PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3116 (quoted-printable decoding).
3117
cc2ed8f7 3118PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3119 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3120
ddfcd446
PH
3121PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3122
d45b1de8
PH
3123PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3124
3125PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3126
38a0a95f 3127PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3128 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3129
a2405d83
JJ
3130JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3131 in 4.64-PH/09.
3132
3133JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3134 miscellaneous code fixes
3135
6ea85e9a
PH
3136PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3137 rejections.
3138
26da7e20
PH
3139PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3140 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3141 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3142 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3143 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3144 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3145 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3146 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3147
14aa5a05 3148PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3149 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3150 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3151 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3152 function.
3153 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3154 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3155 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3156 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3157 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3158 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3159 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3160 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3161 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3162
ff75a1f7
PH
3163PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3164 decoding.
3165
e6f6568e
PH
3166PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3167 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3168 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3169 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3170 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3171 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3172 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3173 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3174
d6f6e0dc
PH
3175PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3176 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3177 list.
3178
322050c2
PH
3179PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3180 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3181 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3182 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3183 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3184 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3185 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3186 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3187 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3188 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3189 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3190 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3191 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3192
08955dd3
PH
3193PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3194 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3195 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3196 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3197 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3198 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3199 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3200
1eccaa59
PH
3201PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3202 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3203 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3204 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3205 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3206 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3207 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3208 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3209 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3210 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3211
602e59e5
PH
3212PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3213 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3214 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3215 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3216 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3217
411ef850
PH
3218PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3219 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3220 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3221 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3222 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3223 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3224 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3225
7befa435
PH
3226PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3227 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3228 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3229 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3230 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3231 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3232 been verified.
3233
48da4259 3234PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3235 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3236 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3237 and authorization.)
3238
48da4259
PH
3239PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3240 if any retry times were supplied.
3241
d1d5595c
PH
3242PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3243 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3244 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3245
0ef732d9
PH
3246PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3247
328895cc
PH
3248PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3249
fd700877
PH
3250PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3251 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3252 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3253 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3254 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3255 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3256
8dce1a6f
PH
3257PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3258 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3259
17af4a17
PH
3260PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3261 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3262 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3263
3264PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3265 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3266 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3267 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3268 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3269 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3270 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3271 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3272 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3273
3274 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3275 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3276 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3277 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3278 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3279 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3280 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3281 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3282 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3283
3284 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3285 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3286 hammering the server.
3287
c1114884
PH
3288PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3289 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3290
7a0743eb
PH
3291PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3292
0d85fa3f
PH
3293PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3294 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3295 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3296
1bf43b78
PH
3297PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3298 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3299 one case where this was not true.
3300
520de300
PH
3301PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3302 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3303 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3304 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3305 fails.
3306
48c7f9e2
PH
3307PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3308 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3309 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3310 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3311 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3312 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3313 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3314 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3315 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3316 smtp transport.
3317
99ea1c86
PH
3318PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3319 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3320 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3321 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3322
a2042e78
PH
3323PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3324 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3325
4fbcfc2e
PH
3326PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3327 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3328 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3329
aa41d2de
PH
3330PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3331
af561417
PH
3332PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3333
3cc66b45
PH
3334PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3335
194cc0e4
PH
3336PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3337 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3338 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3339 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3340
a401ddaa
PH
3341PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3342 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3343
4e88a19f
PH
3344PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3345 be meaningful with "accept".
3346
d7d7b289
SC
3347SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3348 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3349
3350SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3351 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3352 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3353
3354SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3355 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3356 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3357 there is data to show.
3358 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3359
3360SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3361 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3362 as well as the number of messages.
3363
3364SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3365 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3366 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3367
3368SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3369 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3370 have a flag are now skipped.
3371
3372SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3373 Added the -emptyok flag.
3374
3375SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3376 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3377
0ea2a468
JJ
3378JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3379 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3380 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3381
3382JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3383 match 4.64-PH/13
3384
3385JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3386 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3387
3388JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3389
3390JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3391 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3392
8a10f5a4
PH
3393PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3394
30e18802
PH
3395PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3396 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3397 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3398 contravention of the specifications.
3399
55728a4f
PH
3400PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3401 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3402 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3403
d7837193
PH
3404PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3405 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3406 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3407
87054a31
PH
3408PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3409
ea2c01d2
MH
3410MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3411 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3412 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3413 some point in the past.
3414
e4fa6968
PH
3415PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3416 transport during callout processing was broken.
3417
56f5d9bd
PH
3418PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3419 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3420
922e1c28
PH
3421PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3422 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3423
21eb6e72
PH
3424PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3425 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3426
a0540757
PH
3427PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3428
944e9e9c 3429
478be7b0
SC
3430Exim version 4.63
3431-----------------
3432
3433SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3434 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3435
3436SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3437 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3438 there is data to show.
3439 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3440
3441SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3442 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3443
2b965a65
TF
3444TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3445 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3446
45b91596
PH
3447TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3448 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3449
c59f5781
TF
3450TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3451 submissions from trusted users.
3452
90fc3069
TF
3453TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3454 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3455
6083aca0
TF
3456TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3457 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3458 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3459 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3460 there is now a framework to start from.
3461
765b530f
PH
3462PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3463 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3464 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3465
4e167a8c
PH
3466PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3467
4608d683
PH
3468PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3469
b8dc3e4a
PH
3470PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3471
5418e93b
PH
3472PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3473 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3474 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3475
b4a9bda2
PH
3476PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3477 libradius.
3478
45b91596
PH
3479PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3480 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3481 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3482
5547e2c5
PH
3483PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3484 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3485 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3486 its arguments.
3487
dbcef0ea
PH
3488PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3489 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3490 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3491 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3492 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3493
25257489
PH
3494PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3495 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3496
c816d124
PH
3497PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3498
a9ccd69a
PH
3499PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3500 operations in malware.c.
3501
75fa1910
PH
3502PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3503 signatures.
3504
a7d7aa58
PH
3505PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3506 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3507 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3508 all.
3509
42119b09
PH
3510PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3511 statements to "add_header".
3512
41609df5
PH
3513PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3514 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3515
a5bd321b
PH
3516PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3517 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3518 latter.
3519
e85a7ad5 3520PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3521 so that it is now:
3522
e85a7ad5
PH
3523 ${if or { \
3524 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3525 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3526 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3527 }{no}{yes}}
3528
e85a7ad5
PH
3529 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3530 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3531
d8fe1c03
PH
3532PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3533 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3534
16282d2b
PH
3535PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3536 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3537 any possible encoding problems.
3538
35d40a98
PH
3539PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3540 but not after initializing Perl.
3541
034d99ab
PH
3542PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3543 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3544 apparently, which is not desirable.
3545
6ec97b1b
PH
3546PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3547 queries.
3548
e22ca4ac
JJ
3549JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3550 --not options
3551
3552JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3553
33d73e3b
PH
3554PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3555 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3556 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3557 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3558
9ecb03f3
PH
3559PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3560 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3561 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3562
084efe8d
PH
3563PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3564 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3565 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3566 0.12.
3567
366fc9f0
PH
3568PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3569 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3570 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3571 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3572 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3573
c59f5781 3574
c887c79e
TF
3575Exim version 4.62
3576-----------------
3577
3578TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3579 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3580
1cce3af8
PH
3581PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3582 patch).
3583
afb3eaaf
PH
3584PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3585 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3586 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3587 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3588 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3589 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3590 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3591 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3592 451 error is used.
3593
e173618b
PH
3594PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3595
dd16e114
PH
3596PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3597 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3598 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3599
f7fd3850
PH
3600PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3601 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3602 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3603 odd errors.
3604
d87df92c
PH
3605PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3606 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3607
7e9f683d
PH
3608PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3609 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3610 option (which defaults to 0600).
3611
bfad5236
PH
3612PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3613
01c490df
PH
3614PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3615 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3616 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3617 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3618 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3619 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3620 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3621
d6629cdc
PH
3622PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3623
1cce3af8 3624
214e2000
PH
3625Exim version 4.61
3626-----------------
3627
3628PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3629 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3630 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3631 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3632 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3633 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3634 addresses as local.
3635
f9daeae0
PH
3636PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3637 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3638
7e66e54d
PH
3639PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3640
c8ea1597
PH
3641PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3642 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3643 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3644 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3645 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3646 grumble.
3647
911f6fde
PH
3648PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3649 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3650
47ca6d6c
PH
3651PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3652 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3653 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3654 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3655 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3656
ed0e9820
PH
3657PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3658 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3659 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3660 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3661
eff37e47
PH
3662PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3663 be the same on different OS.
3664
1921d2ea
PH
3665PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3666 testing.
3667
b3f69ca8
JJ
3668JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3669 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3670
3671JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3672 in 4.61-PH/06
3673
424a1c63
PH
3674PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3675 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3676 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3677 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3678 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3679 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3680 bounce message.
3681
7a100415
PH
3682PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3683 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3684 when Exim was called.
3685
19b9dc85
PH
3686PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3687 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3688
309bd837
PH
3689PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3690 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3691 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3692 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3693
59e82a2a
PH
3694PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3695 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3696 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3697 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3698 changes:
3699
3700 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3701 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3702 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3703
3704 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3705 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3706 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3707
9edc04ce
PH
3708PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3709 feature).
3710
1349e1e5
PH
3711PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3712 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3713 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3714 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3715 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3716 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3717 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3718 values from the SRV records were lost.
3719
ea49d0e1
PH
3720PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3721 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3722 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3723
064a94c9
PH
3724PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3725 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3726 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3727
727071f8
PH
3728PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3729 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3730 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3731 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3732 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3733 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3734 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3735 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3736 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3737 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3738
f78eb7c6
PH
3739PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3740 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3741 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3742
21c28500
PH
3743PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3744 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3745
3746PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3747 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3748 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3749 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3750 is given.
3751
1688f43b
PH
3752PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3753 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3754 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3755
3756PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3757 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3758 PH/23 above applies.
3759
9675b384
PH
3760PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3761 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3762 (for which there is an explicit test).
3763
6a3f1455
PH
3764PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3765
dac79d3e
PH
3766PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3767 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3768 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3769 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3770 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3771
5977a0b3
PH
3772PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3773 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3774 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3775 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3776
c91535f3
PH
3777PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3778 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3779 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3780
0d46a8c8
PH
3781PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3782
278c6e6c
PH
3783PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3784
2cbb4081
PH
3785PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3786 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3787 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3788
3eef829e
PH
3789PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3790 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3791 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3792 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3793 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3794
1ab95fa6
PH
3795PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3796 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3797 the message gets confusing).
3798
230205fc
PH
3799PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3800 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3801 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3802 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3803
75e0e026
PH
3804PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3805 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3806 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3807 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3808 same order.
3809
3810PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3811 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3812 the different processes.
3813
145396a6
PH
3814PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3815
3cd34f13
PH
3816PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3817
11121d3d
JJ
3818JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3819 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3820
3821JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3822 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3823
3824JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3825 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3826 messages matching specified criteria.
3827
8def5aaf
PH
3828PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3829
929ba01c
PH
3830PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3831 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3832
2632889e
PH
3833PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3834 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3835 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3836 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3837 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3838 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3839 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3840 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3841 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3842 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3843
944a9c55
PH
3844PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3845 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3846 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3847
4a23603b
PH
3848PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3849
4730f942
PH
3850PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3851 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3852 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3853 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3854 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3855 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3856 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3857 the variable.
3858
30dba1e6
PH
3859PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3860 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3861
382afc6b
PH
3862PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3863
a86229cf
PH
3864PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3865
50c99ba6
PH
3866PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3867
d35e429d
PH
3868PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3869 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3870 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3871 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3872 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3873 size of the count of files.
3874
f90d018c
PH
3875PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3876
75def545
PH
3877PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3878 used in LMTP mode:
3879
3880 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3881 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3882 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3883 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3884
3885 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3886 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3887 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3888
3889PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3890 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3891 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3892 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3893 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3894
c46782ef
PH
3895PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3896 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3897
71fafd95
PH
3898PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3899 will now be deprecated.
3900
2c5db4fd
PH
3901PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3902
9cf6b11a
JJ
3903JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3904 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3905 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3906
3907JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3908 with very large, slow to parse queues
3909
3910JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3911
3912JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3913
898d150f
PH
3914PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3915 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3916 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3917 SMTP output lines.
3918
46218253
PH
3919PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3920 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3921 Sieve code now uses this.
3922
e97957bc
PH
3923PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3924 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3925
81e509d7
PH
3926PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3927 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3928
3d240ff7
PH
3929PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3930
b37c4101
PH
3931PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3932 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3933 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3934 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3935 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3936
79378e0f
PH
3937PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3938 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3939 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3940 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3941
e49c7bb4
PH
3942PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3943
d114ec46
PH
3944PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3945
f3d7df6c
PH
3946PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3947 is preferred over IPv4.
3948
715ab376
PH
3949PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3950 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3951 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3952 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3953 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3954 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3955 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3956
6b31b150
PH
3957PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3958 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3959 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3960
3961PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3962
d515a917
PH
3963PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3964 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3965 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3966 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3967 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3968 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3969 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3970 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3971 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3972 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3973 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3974
9b8fadde
PH
3975PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3976 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3977 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3978
214e2000 3979
5de37277
PH
3980Exim version 4.60
3981-----------------
3982
cc38ddbf
PH
3983PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3984
3985 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3986 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3987
3988 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3989 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3990 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3991
72fdd6ae
PH
3992PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3993
3994 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3995 not a single digit.
3996
3997 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3998 string.
3999
4000 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4001 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4002 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4003 silly things.
4004
4005 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4006 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4007
4008 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4009 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4010
cb741023
PH
4011PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4012 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4013 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4014
f174f16e
PH
4015PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4016 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4017
c25242d7
PH
4018PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4019 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4020
4021 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4022
4023 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4024 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4025 this:
4026
4027 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4028
82c19f95
PH
4029PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4030 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4031 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4032 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4033 identical. For example:
4034
4035 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4036
4037 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4038 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4039 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4040
d7ffbc12
PH
4041PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4042 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4043 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4044 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4045
9f526266
PH
4046PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4047 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4048 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4049 message.
4050
87fcc8b9
PH
4051PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4052
4053 o fixes some comments
4054 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4055 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4056 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4057 and documents the missing references header update
4058
4059 and most important:
4060
4061 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4062 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4063 result)
4064
456682f5
PH
4065PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4066 Electronic Mail") by including:
4067
4068 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4069
4070 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4071 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4072 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4073 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4074 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4075
4076 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4077
4078 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4079
4080 The auto-replied keyword:
4081
4082 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4083 message by an automatic process,
4084
4085 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4086
4087 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4088 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4089
4090 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4091 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4092 other messages.
4093
3e46c1aa
PH
4094PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4095 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4096
49826d12
PH
4097PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4098
eba0c039
PH
4099PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4100 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4101 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4102
a0d6ba8a
PH
4103PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4104 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4105 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4106
f0917727
PH
4107PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4108 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4109 and treats the condition as false.
4110
096fee00
PH
4111PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4112
024bd3c2
PH
4113PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4114 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4115 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4116 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4117 not changing the active code.
4118
4119 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4120 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4121
4122 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4123 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4124
df199fec
PH
4125PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4126 (Bugzilla #53).
4127
d27f1df3
PH
4128PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4129 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4130 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4131 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4132 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4133 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4134 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4135 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4136 the text comparison.
4137
96776534
PH
4138PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4139 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4140 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4141 The same fix has been applied.
4142
5de37277 4143
9a799bc0
PH
4144Exim version 4.54
4145-----------------
4146
4147PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4148 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4149 It now does.
4150
99a4b039
PH
4151PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4152 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4153
4154PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4155
4b233853
PH
4156PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4157 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4158 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4159 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4160 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4161
8857ccfd
PH
4162TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4163 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4164 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4165 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4166 or /domain=).
4167
433a2980
PH
4168PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4169 testing suite.
4170
3e46c1aa 4171
9a799bc0 4172
e3a311ba
TK
4173Exim version 4.53
4174-----------------
4175
4176TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4177 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4178
13b685f9
PH
4179PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4180
395ff96d
PH
4181PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4182
5b68f6e4
PH
4183PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4184 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4185 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4186
1ab52c69
PH
4187PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4188 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4189 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4190
b07e6aa3
PH
4191PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4192 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4193 operating systems.
4194
254e032f
PH
4195PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4196 ${stat: expansion item.
4197
3af76a81
PH
4198PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4199 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4200
2548ba04
PH
4201PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4202 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4203 file for comments.
4204
b6c6011d
PH
4205PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4206
cf39cf57
PH
4207PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4208 setting.
4209
f1513293
PH
4210PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4211 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4212
727549a4
PH
4213TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4214
af46795e
PH
4215PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4216 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4217 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4218 the end of the subprocess.
4219
d7b47fd0
PH
4220PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4221 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4222 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4223 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4224 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4225
ee744174
JJ
4226JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4227
b582ab87
PH
4228TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4229
41a13e0a
PH
4230PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4231 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4232
f625cc5a
PH
4233PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4234
4235PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4236
21f7af35
PH
4237PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4238 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4239 HP-UX compiler.
4240
31480e42
PH
4241PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4242
2d280592
PH
4243PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4244 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4245 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4246
7cd1141b
PH
4247PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4248 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4249
4250PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4251 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4252
750af86e
PH
4253PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4254 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4255
4256 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4257 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4258
4259 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4260 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4261 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4262 contributed by a Radius user.
4263
4264PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4265 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4266
4304270b
TK
4267TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4268 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4269
750af86e
PH
4270PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4271 available.
4272
64ffc24f
PH
4273PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4274 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4275 received.
4276
5dd9625b
PH
4277PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4278 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4279 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4280 header lines when this was not necessary.
4281
5591031b
PH
4282PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4283
ba18e66a
PH
4284PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4285 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4286 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4287 exists".
4288
9cec981f
PH
4289PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4290 -bV or -d is used.
4291
aa2b5c79
PH
4292PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4293 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4294 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4295 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4296
48a53b7f
PH
4297PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4298
1c59d63b
PH
4299PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4300
671012da
TK
4301TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4302
1509d3a8
PH
4303PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4304
4305PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4306 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4307 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4308 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4309 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4310 settings.
4311
4312PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4313
2fe1a124
PH
4314PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4315 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4316 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4317 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4318 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4319 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4320 which is clearly wrong.
4321
8800895a
PH
4322PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4323
ccfdb010
PH
4324PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4325 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4326 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4327 subsequently added.
4328
1130bfb0
PH
4329PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4330 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4331
ebcb507f
PH
4332PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4333
c35e155c
PH
4334PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4335 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4336
95d1f782
PH
4337PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4338 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4339
fd6de02e
PH
4340PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4341 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4342
58de37c5
PH
4343PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4344 recipients, not senders.
4345
261cf466
TF
4346TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4347 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4348
3ee512ff
PH
4349PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4350
e08c430f
PH
4351PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4352
bef5a11f
PH
4353PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4354 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4355 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4356 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4357
7546de58
TF
4358TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4359
e5d5a95f
TF
4360TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4361 clock is set back in time.
4362
2e88a017
TF
4363TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4364 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4365
a5f65aa4
TF
4366TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4367 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4368
e7726cbf
PH
4369PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4370 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4371 (see PH/47 above).
4372
a7fdad5b
TF
4373TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4374 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4375 header rewrites.
4376
6af56900
PH
4377PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4378 type ("H").
4379
0925ede6
PH
4380PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4381
66afa403
TF
4382TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4383 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4384 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4385
0154e85a
TF
4386TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4387 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4388 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4389 helo verification defer as a failure.
4390
16f12c76
PH
4391PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4392 actual error message.
4393
bbe902f0 4394
e5a9dba6
PH
4395Exim version 4.52
4396-----------------
4397
4398TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4399
22c3b60b
PH
4400PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4401 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4402 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4403 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4404
06a9b4b5
PH
4405TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4406
c1ac6996
PH
4407PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4408 can still be requested.
4409
9c7a242c
PH
4410PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4411 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4412 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4413 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4414
87ba3f5f
PH
4415TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4416 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4417 circumstances, but probably never did.
4418
4419PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4420 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4421 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4422 in the header line.
4423
29aba418
TF
4424TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4425
fe0dab11
TF
4426TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4427 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4428
11d337a4
TK
4429TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4430
4431TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4432
415c8f3b
PH
4433PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4434 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4435 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4436 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4437 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4438 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4439
958541e9
PH
4440PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4441 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4442 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4443 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4444 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4445 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4446
c206415f
TK
4447TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4448 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4449
2a4be8f9
PH
4450PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4451 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4452
1cba11c5
SC
4453SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4454 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4455
4c04137d 4456SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4457
4458SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4459
4460SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4461
4462SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4463
4464SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4465
4466SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4467
1005d00e
TK
4468TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4469
4470TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4471 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4472 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4473
4474TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4475 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4476 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4477 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4478
9b4768fa
PH
4479PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4480 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4481 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4482
4483PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4484 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4485 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4486 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4487
0d7eb84a
PH
4488PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4489 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4490 to be made).
4491
4492PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4493 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4494 should work with maildirs and everything.
4495
40727bee
TK
4496TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4497 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4498
554d2369
TF
4499TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4500 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4501
1f922db1
PH
4502PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4503 function for BDB 4.3.
4504
ef213c3b
PH
4505PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4506
8ac170f3
PH
4507PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4508 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4509 involved.
4510
b1c749bb
PH
4511PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4512 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4513 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4514 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4515 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4516 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4517
4aac9b49
PH
4518PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4519 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4520 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4521 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4522 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4523 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4524 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4525 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4526
294520c8
TK
4527TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4528 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4529 details.
4530
5bd022fe
PH
4531PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4532 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4533
90e9ce59
PH
4534PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4535 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4536 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4537 test. It is now used for both.
4538
5ea81592
PH
4539PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4540 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4541 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4542 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4543 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4544 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4545
c6c2dc1d
PH
4546PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4547 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4548 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4549 string_vformat().
4550
fffffe4c
PH
4551PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4552 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4553 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4554
9a26b6b2
PH
4555PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4556 experimental DomainKeys support:
4557
4558 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4559 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4560 the control was given.
4561
4562 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4563
4aee0225
PH
4564PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4565
32d668a5
PH
4566PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4567
8187c3f3
PH
4568PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4569 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4570 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4571 db.h files).
4572
ff790e47 4573PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4574 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4575 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4576 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4577 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4578 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4579 course.
ff790e47 4580
5417f6d1
PH
4581PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4582 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4583 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4584 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4585 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4586 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4587
59cf8544
PH
4588PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4589 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4590 do -d+all out of habit.
4591
e7ad8a65
PH
4592PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4593 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4594 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4595
ade42478
PH
4596PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4597 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4598 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4599 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4600 record types that Exim uses.
4601
182ad5cf
PH
4602PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4603 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4604 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4605 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4606 non-existent file that was broken.
4607
b0d9fc80
TK
4608TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4609 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4610
4611TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4612 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4613 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4614
4615TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4616
47c7a64a
PH
4617PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4618 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4619 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4620 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4621 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4622 same time.
4623
a388bce4
SC
4624SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4625 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4626 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4627 at a slight CPU cost.
4628
4629SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4630 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4631
4632SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4633 by Marc Sherman.
4634
0793e4ed
SC
4635SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4636
c58b88df
PH
4637PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4638 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4639
e7ad8a65 4640
7982096b
PH
4641Exim version 4.51
4642-----------------
4643
1a46a8c5
PH
4644TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4645 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4646
2f079f46 4647TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4648
4649TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4650
4651PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4652 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4653
4654PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4655 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4656 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4657 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4658 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4659 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4660 file.
4661
4662PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4663 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4664 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4665 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4666 these two options.
4667
4668PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4669 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4670 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4671 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4672 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4673 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4674 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4675 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4676
4677PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4678 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4679
4680PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4681 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4682 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4683 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4684 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4685 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4686
4687PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4688 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4689 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4690 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4691
4692PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4693 Finch).
4694
4695PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4696 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4697
49c2d5ea
PH
4698PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4699 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4700 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4701 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4702 message.
49c2d5ea 4703
bf759a8b
PH
4704PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4705
83364d30
PH
4706PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4707 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4708
7999bbd7
PH
4709PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4710 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4711 to what was transported.)
4712
7dbf77c9
PH
4713TF/01 Added $received_time.
4714
74e0617f
PH
4715PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4716 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4717 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4718 spamd_address settings.
4719
2f079f46
PH
4720PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4721 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4722 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4723 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4724 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4725
8c841523
PH
4726PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4727
7766a4f0
PH
4728PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4729 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4730 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4731 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4732 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4733
8b417f2c
PH
4734PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4735 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4736
901f42cb
PH
4737PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4738 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4739 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4740 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4741 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4742 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4743 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4744 for failure.
4745
f9b9210e
PH
4746PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4747 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4748 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4749 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4750 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4751 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4752 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4753 "input=".
4754
54cdb463
PH
4755PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4756
cf00dad6
PH
4757PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4758 driver and ACL definitions.
4759
acb1b346
PH
4760PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4761 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4762
c5ddb310
PH
4763PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4764 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4765 understands it better than I do:
4766
4767 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4768 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4769
4770 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4771 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4772 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4773 => three warnings about OTP not working
4774 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4775
4776 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4777 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4778 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4779 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4780 for each call.)
4781 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4782 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4783
4784 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4785 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4786 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4787
31619da6
PH
4788PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4789 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4790 specified.
4791
bebaf0fc
PH
4792PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4793 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4794 "Linux".
4795
475fe28a
PH
4796PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4797 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4798 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4799
4800 warn !verify = sender
4801 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4802
4803 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4804 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4805
7e8bec7a
PH
4806PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4807
4808 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4809 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4810
4811 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4812 nomenclature these days.)
4813
e4a89c47
PH
4814PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4815 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4816
5ca2a9a1
PH
4817PH/30 In these circumstances:
4818 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4819 . First host does not offer TLS;
4820 . First host accepts first address;
4821 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4822 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4823 . Second host accepts second address.
4824 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4825 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4826 address.
7e8bec7a 4827
c688b954
PH
4828PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4829 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4830 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4831 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4832 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4833
fed77020
PH
4834PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4835 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4836
7fe1560f
PH
4837PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4838 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4839
ebb6e6d5
PH
4840PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4841 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4842 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4843
9c4e8f60
PH
4844PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4845 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4846 overlooked.
4847
4848PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4849
d7174846
PH
4850PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4851 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4852 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4853 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4854 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4855 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4856 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4857
4858 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4859 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4860 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4861 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4862 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4863
4864 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4865 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4866 routed further.
4867
cfe75fc3
PH
4868PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4869 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4870 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4871 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4872 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4873 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4874
be22d70e
PH
4875PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4876
0612b098
PH
4877PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4878 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4879 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4880 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4881 printable escape sequences.
4882
2e0c1448
PH
4883PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4884 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4885 body only.
4886
447d236c
PH
4887PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4888 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4889 are as follows:
4890
4891 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4892 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4893 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4894 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4895 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4896
4897 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4898 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4899 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4900
d20976dc
PH
4901PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4902
f656d135
PH
4903PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4904 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4905 play with."
4906
2e2a30b4
PH
4907PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4908 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4909 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4910 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4911 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4912 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4913 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4914 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4915 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4916 the log output.
4917
9176e9f0
PH
4918PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4919 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4920 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4921 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4922 "make".
4923
7982096b 4924
bbe902f0
PH
4925A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4926----------------------------------------
4927
4928Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4929changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4930needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4931in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4932that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4933release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4934from 4.43.
4935
4936I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
49374.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4938those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4939historical information.
4940
4941
f7b63901 4942Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4943-----------------
4944
5fe762f6
PH
4945 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4946
139059f6 4947 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4948 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4949
7086e875
PH
4950 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4951 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4952 place.
4953
35af9f61
PH
4954 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4955 filter fails to execute.
4956
b668c215
PH
4957 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4958 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4959 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4960 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4961 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4962
a494b1e1
PH
4963 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4964
4965 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4966 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4967 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4968 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4969
c5fcb476
PH
4970 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4971 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4972 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4973 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4974 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4975
69358f02
PH
4976 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4977
5be20824
PH
497810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4979
eb2c0248
PH
498011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4981 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4982 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4983 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4984
2a3eea10
PH
498512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4986 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4987 sender verification.
4988
498913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4990 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4991
23c7ff99
PH
499214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4993
4deaf07d
PH
499415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4995 connection timeout.
4996
926e1192
PH
499716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4998 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4999
650edc6f
PH
500017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5001 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5002
2c7db3f5
PH
500318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5004 information about exactly what failed.
5005
3d235903
PH
500619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5007
7c7ad977
PH
500820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5009 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5010 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5011
981756db
PH
501221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5013 It is now set to "smtps".
5014
d4eb88df
PH
501522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5016 ignore_target_hosts.
5017
501823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5019 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5020 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5021 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5022 "[x.x.x.x]".
5023
7d468ab8
PH
502424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5025 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5026 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5027
502825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5029 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5030 wake it up if nothing else does.
5031
62c0818f
PH
503226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5033 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5034 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5035 end up negative.
5036
26034054
PH
503727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5038 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5039
af66f652
PH
504028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5041
90af77f4
PH
504229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5043 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5044 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5045 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5046 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5047 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5048 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5049 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5050
d8ef3577
PH
505130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5052 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5053 than one IP address.
5054
5cb8cbc6
PH
505531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5056 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5057 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5058 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5059
14702f5b
PH
506032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5061 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5062 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5063 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5064 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5065 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5066
063b1e99
PH
506733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5068 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5069 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5070 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5071
652e1b65
PH
507234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5073 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5074 respected.
5075
6f0c9a4f
PH
507635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5077 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5078 $sender_host_address.
5079
33397d19
PH
508036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5081 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5082 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5083 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5084 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5085 very small.
5086
7bb56e1f
PH
508737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5088
5089 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5090 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5091
ea3bc19b
PH
5092 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5093 just the host names, not the priorities.
5094
5095 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5096 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5097 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5098
ea3bc19b 5099 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5100 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5101
0bcb2a0e
PH
510238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5103 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5104 domain.
5105
2ac0e484
PH
510639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5107
4e1fde53
PH
510840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5109 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5110
de365ded
PH
511141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5112 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5113 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5114
f05da2e8
PH
511542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5116
d6453af2
PH
511743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5118
f7b63901
PH
511944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5120
512145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5122 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5123 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5124 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5125 because the tests only now provoked it.
5126
a444213a
PH
512746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5128 (this can affect the format of dates).
5129
0ec020ea
PH
513047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5131 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5132 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5133 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5134
b1206957
PH
513548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5136
513749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5138 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5139 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5140 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5141
26dd5a95
PH
514250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5143 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5144 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5145
343b2385
PH
514651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5147 autoreply.
5148
1c5466b9
PH
514952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5150 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5151 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5152 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5153 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5154 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5155 is going on).
5156
55ee9ee3
PH
515753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5158 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5159 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5160 the line.
5161
d38f8232
PH
516254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5163 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5164 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5165
5166 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5167 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5168 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5169 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5170 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5171 so I produce this patch..."
5172
3295e65b
PH
5173 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5174 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5175 is not defined.
5176
7102e136
PH
517755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5178 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5179 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5180 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5181 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5182
3ca0ba97
PH
518356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5184
c2bcbe20
PH
518557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5186 long debug lines gets shown.
5187
18ce445d
PH
518858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5189 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5190
1f5b4c3d
PH
519159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5192
5193 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5194 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5195 of $primary_hostname.
5196
b975ba52
PH
519760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5198 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5199 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5200 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5201 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5202 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5203 by change 4.50/55 above.
5204
5205 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5206 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5207 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5208 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5209 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5210 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5211 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5212
521361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5214 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5215 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5216 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5217
17ffcae7
PH
521862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5219 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5220
d95f9fdb
PH
522163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5222 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5223 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5224 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5225 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5226
86b8287f
PH
522764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5228 This has been fixed.
5229
60dc5e56
PH
523065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5231 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5232 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5233 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5234 the caching.)
5235
533244af
PH
523666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5237
a5a28604
PH
523867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5239 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5240 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5241 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5242
7e634d24
PH
524368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5244 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5245
3e11c26b
PH
524669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5247 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5248 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5249
6729cf78
PH
525070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5251 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5252 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5253 message there.
5254
00f00ca5
PH
525571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5256 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5257 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5258
c9bdd01c
PH
525972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5260 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5261 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5262 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5263
d43194df
PH
526473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5265 during host lookups.
5266
fe5b5d0b
PH
526774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5268 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5269
5270 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5271
76a2d7ba
PH
527275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5273 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5274 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5275 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5276 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5277 background.
5278
527976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5280 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5281
04f7d5b9
PH
528277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5283 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5284 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5285
bc60667e
PH
528678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5287
bb6e88ff
PH
528879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5289 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5290 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5291 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5292 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5293 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5294 process earlier.
5295
1e70f85b
PH
529680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5297 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5298 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5299 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5300 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5301
530281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5303 tables).
5304
4e01f9d6
PH
530582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5306
1ee1cef2
PH
530783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5308 "vacation" handling.
5309
6e2b4ccc
PH
531084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5311 OS variants using glibc.
5312
8e669ac1
PH
531385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5314
495ae4b0 5315
bbe902f0
PH
5316----------------------------------------------------
5317See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5318----------------------------------------------------
5319
5320
5321Exim version 4.44
5322-----------------
5323
5324 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5325 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5326 transport
5327
5328 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5329 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5330 place.
5331
5332 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5333 filter fails to execute.
5334
5335 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5336 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5337 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5338 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5339 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5340
5341 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5342 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5343 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5344 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5345
5346 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5347 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5348 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5349 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5350 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5351
5352 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5353
5354 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5355 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5356 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5357 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5358
5359 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5360 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5361 sender verification.
5362
536310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5364 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5365
536611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5367 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5368
536912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5370 ignore_target_hosts.
5371
537213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5373 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5374 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5375 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5376 "[x.x.x.x]".
5377
537814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5379 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5380 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5381
538215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5383 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5384 wake it up if nothing else does.
5385
538616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5387 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5388 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5389 end up negative.
5390
539117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5392 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5393
ea3a6f44 539418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5395
539619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5397 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5398 empty pattern.
5399
540020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5401 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5402 one IP address.
5403
ea3a6f44
NM
540421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5405 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5406 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5407 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5408 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5409 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5410
ea3a6f44
NM
541122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5412 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5413 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5414
541523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5416 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5417 $sender_host_address.
5418
541924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5420
ea3a6f44
NM
542125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5422 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5423 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5424
542526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5426 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5427
ea3a6f44
NM
542827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5429 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5430
ea3a6f44
NM
543128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5432 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5433 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5434 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5435
543629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5437 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5438 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5439
ea3a6f44
NM
544030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5441 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5442 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5443 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5444
ea3a6f44
NM
544531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5446 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5447 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5448
ea3a6f44
NM
544931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5450 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5451
ea3a6f44
NM
545232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5453 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5454 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5455 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5456 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5457 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5458 is going on).
bbe902f0 5459
ea3a6f44
NM
546033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5461 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5462 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5463 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5464 CAN-2005-0021
5465
ea3a6f44
NM
546634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5467 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5468 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5469 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5470 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5471 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5472 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5473
5474 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5475 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5476 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5477 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5478 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5479 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5480 CAN-2005-0021
5481
ea3a6f44
NM
548235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5483 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5484 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5485 CAN-2005-0022
5486
ea3a6f44
NM
548736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5488 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5489 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5490 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5491 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5492
ea3a6f44
NM
549337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5494 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5495 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5496 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5497 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5498
ea3a6f44
NM
549938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5500 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5501 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5502 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5503 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5504
5505
495ae4b0
PH
5506Exim version 4.43
5507-----------------
5508
5509 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5510 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5511 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5512 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5513 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5514 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5515 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5516
5517 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5518 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5519 the delivery.
5520
5521 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5522
5523 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5524
5525 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5526 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5527 to local_scan().
5528
5529 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5530 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5531 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5532 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5533 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5534
5535 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5536 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5537
5538 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5539
5540 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5541
554210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5543 header_sender only.
5544
554511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5546 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5547
554812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5549 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5550 affecting debugging statements).
5551
555213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5553
555414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5555 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5556 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5557 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5558 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5559 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5560 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5561 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5562 after the received time, and all would be well.
5563
556415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5565 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5566 condition in an expansion string.
5567
556816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5569
557017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5571 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5572 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5573 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5574 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5575 job under whatever limits there are.
5576
557718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5578
557919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5580 space).
5581
558220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5583 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5584 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5585 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5586 return path is set.
5587
558821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5589 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5590 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5591 binary data in such strings.
5592
559322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5594
559523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5596 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5597 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5598 failure, which is pointless.
5599
560024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5601
560225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5603
560426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5605 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5606 Sender: header lines.
5607
560827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5609 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5610 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5611
561228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5613 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5614 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5615 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5616 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5617 happens.
5618
561929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5620 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5621 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5622 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5623 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5624
562530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5626 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5627 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5628 1024.
5629
563031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5631 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5632
563332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5634 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5635
563633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5637
563832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5639
564033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5641
564234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5643 syntax error.
5644
564535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5646
564736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5648
564937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5650 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5651 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5652 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5653
565438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5655 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5656
5657
5658Exim version 4.42
5659-----------------
5660
5661 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5662 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5663 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5664 it was not quoted.
5665 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5666 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5667 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5668 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5669 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5670 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5671
5672 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5673 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5674 verification failure".
5675
5676 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5677 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5678 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5679 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5680
5681 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5682 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5683 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5684 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5685 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5686 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5687 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5688 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5689 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5690 treated as a timeout.
5691
5692 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5693 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5694 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5695 not set for Exim filters).
5696
5697 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5698 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5699 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5700
5701 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5702
5703 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5704 try to make them clearer.
5705
5706 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5707 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5708
5709 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5710
5711 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5712
571310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5714 only the Cygwin environment.
5715
571611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5717 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5718 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5719 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5720 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5721
572212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5723 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5724 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5725 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5726 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5727 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5728 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5729
573013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5731 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5732
573314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5734
5735 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5736 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5737 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5738
5739 To: susanne@some.where
5740
5741 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5742 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5743 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5744 of addresses in From: header lines).
5745
5746 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5747 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5748 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5749
5750 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5751 treated as non-personal.
5752
5753 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5754 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5755
575615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5757
575816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5759
576017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5761 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5762 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5763
576418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5765 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5766
576719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5768 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5769 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5770 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5771 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5772 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5773
577420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5775 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5776 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5777 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5778 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5779 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5780 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5781 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5782
5783 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5784
578521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5786 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5787
578822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5789 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5790 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5791
579223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5793 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5794
579524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5796 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5797 rather than long int.
5798
579925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5800
580126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5802
5803
5804Exim version 4.41
5805-----------------
5806
5807 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5808 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5809 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5810 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5811 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5812 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5813
5814
5815Exim version 4.40
5816-----------------
5817
5818 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5819 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5820
5821 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5822 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5823 socklen_t is defined.
5824
5825 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5826 always exist.
5827
5828 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5829 configured.
5830
5831 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5832 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5833 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5834 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5835 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5836
5837 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5838 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5839 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5840 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5841
5842 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5843 of flapping under certain conditions.
5844
5845 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5846 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5847 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5848
5849 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5850
585110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5852
585311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5854 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5855 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5856 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5857
585812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5859 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5860 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5861 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5862 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5863 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5864 preserved with the message after it was received.
5865
586613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5867 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5868 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5869 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5870 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5871 test suite worked just fine.
5872
587314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5874 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5875 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5876
587715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5878 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5879 string.
5880
588116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5882 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5883 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5884 does not fully solve it.
5885
588617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5887 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5888 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5889 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5890 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5891
589218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5893 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5894 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5895
589619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5897 string, for example:
5898
5899 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5900
5901 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5902 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5903 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5904 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5905 the routers could not see them.
5906
590720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5908 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5909
591021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5911 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5912 output).
5913
591422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5915 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5916 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5917 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5918 that needed quoting.
5919
592023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5921 was not being matched caselessly.
5922
592324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5924 backslashes.
5925
592625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5927 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5928 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5929 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5930 when use_sender is false.
5931
593226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5933
593427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5935
593628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5937
593829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5939 the configuration file.
5940
594130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5942 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5943
594431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5945
594632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5947 bytes in the message body.
5948
594933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5950 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5951 delivery.
5952
595334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5954
595535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5956
595736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5958 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5959 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5960 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5961 another IP address.
5962
5963
5964Exim version 4.34
5965-----------------
5966
5967 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5968 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5969
5970 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5971 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5972 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5973 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5974 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5975
5976 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5977 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5978
5979 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5980 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5981 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5982
5983 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5984 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5985 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5986
5987 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5988 for routers.
5989
5990 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5991 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5992 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5993 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5994 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5995 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5996 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5997
5998
5999Exim version 4.33
6000-----------------
6001
6002 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6003 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6004 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6005 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6006 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6007 default (and expected) setting.
6008
6009 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6010 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6011 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6012 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6013
6014 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6015 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6016
6017 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6018 in domain lists.
6019
6020 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6021 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6022 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6023 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6024 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6025 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6026
6027 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6028 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6029 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6030
6031 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6032 part (NOT match_host).
6033
6034 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6035
6036 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6037 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6038 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6039 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6040 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6041 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6042 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6043 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6044 the same named file.
6045
604610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6047 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6048 when Exim is built.
6049
605011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6051 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6052 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6053 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6054 a host name.
6055
605612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6057 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6058 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6059
606013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6061
606214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6063
606415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6065
606616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6067 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6068
606917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6070 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6071 before starting the TLS session.
6072
607318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6074
607519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6076 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6077
607820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6079 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6080 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6081 colon in the middle).
6082
6083
6084Exim version 4.32
6085-----------------
6086
6087 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6088 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6089 multiple configurations are in use.
6090
6091 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6092 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6093 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6094 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6095 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6096 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6097
6098 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6099 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6100
6101 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6102 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6103 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6104
6105 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6106 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6107 occurs.
6108
6109 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6110 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6111
6112 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6113
6114 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6115 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6116
6117 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6118
6119 -prval:sval
6120
6121 is equivalent to
6122
6123 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6124
6125 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6126 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6127 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6128 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6129 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6130
613110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6132 Exim's behaviour:
6133
6134 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6135 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6136 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6137 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6138 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6139 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6140
6141 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6142 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6143 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6144 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6145 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6146 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6147 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6148 string.
6149
6150 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6151 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6152 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6153 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6154 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6155
615611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6157
615812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6159 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6160 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6161
616213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6163
616414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6165 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6166 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6167 information.
6168
616915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6170 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6171
617216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6173 Three changes have been made:
6174
6175 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6176 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6177 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6178 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6179 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6180
6181 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6182 been restored.
6183
6184 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6185 the modified behaviour.
6186
6187
6188Exim version 4.31
6189-----------------
6190
6191 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6192 Larry Rosenman.
6193
6194 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6195 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6196
6197 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6198 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6199 try to track down a specific problem.
6200
6201 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6202 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6203 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6204
6205 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6206 warning.
6207
6208 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6209 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6210 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6211 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6212 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6213 some earlier ones do not.
6214
6215 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6216
6217 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6218 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6219 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6220 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6221 address literals are enabled, of course).
6222
6223 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6224
622510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6226 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6227 by a command such as
6228
6229 exim -f "" ...
6230
6231 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6232
623311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6234
623512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6236 remained set. It is now erased.
6237
623813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6239 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6240
624114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6242 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6243 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6244 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6245 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6246 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6247 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6248 appropriate error code.
6249
625015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6251 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6252 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6253 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6254 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6255 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6256
625716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6258 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6259 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6260
626117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6262 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6263 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6264 terminate the header.
6265
626618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6267 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6268 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6269
627019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6271 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6272 (4.30/29). In particular:
6273
6274 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6275 imposed.
6276
6277 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6278 to write a maildirsize file.
6279
6280 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6281 the transport, the new value overrides.
6282
6283 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6284 count.
6285
628620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6287 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6288 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6289 space or a tab.
6290
629121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6292 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6293 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6294 the fallback hosts.
6295
629622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6297 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6298 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6299
630023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6301 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6302 using a union.
6303
630424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6305 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6306 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6307
630825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6309
631026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6311
631227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6313
631428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6315 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6316 become corrupted.
6317
631829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6319 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6320 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6321 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6322 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6323 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6324 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6325 too great.
6326
632730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6328 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6329 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6330 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6331 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6332 incorrectly.
6333
633431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6335 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6336 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6337 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6338 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6339 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6340 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6341 cached value only when the same options are set.
6342
634332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6344
634533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6346 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6347 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6348 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6349 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6350
635134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6352 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6353 it is clearly obsolete.
6354
635535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6356 transport.
6357
635836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6359 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6360 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6361 times.
6362
636337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6364 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6365 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6366 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6367 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6368
636938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6370 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6371 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6372 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6373
637439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6375
6376 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6377
6378 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6379 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6380 2^31.
6381
638240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6383 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6384 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6385 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6386 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6387 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6388 $localpart_data.
6389
639041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6391 with the -f command-line option.
6392
639342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6394 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6395 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6396 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6397 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6398 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6399
640043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6401 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6402 line.
6403
640444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6405 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6406 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6407 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6408 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6409 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6410 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6411 buffer is too small.
6412
641345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6414 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6415
641646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6417 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6418 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6419 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6420 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6421 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6422 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6423 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6424 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6425
642647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6427 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6428 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6429
643048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6431 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6432 ACL").
6433
643449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6435 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6436 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6437 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6438 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6439
644050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6441 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6442 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6443 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6444 is set.
6445
644651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6447
644852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6449
645053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6451 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6452
645354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6454 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6455 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6456
645755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6458 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6459 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6460 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6461 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6462
646356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6464 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6465 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6466 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6467 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6468 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6469 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6470
647157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6472 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6473 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6474 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6475 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6476 the test of how many are available.
6477
647858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6479 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6480 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6481 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6482 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6483 new message is started.
6484
648559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6486 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6487
648860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6489 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6490
649161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6492 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6493 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6494 is no long logged.
6495
649662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6497 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6498 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6499 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6500 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6501 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6502 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6503
650463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6505 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6506 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6507 interpreted as octal.
6508
650964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6510 setting.
6511
651265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6513 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6514 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6515 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6516 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6517 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6518
651966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6520 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6521 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6522 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6523
6524 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6525 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6526 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6527 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6528
6529 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6530 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6531 is a bug fix.
6532
6533 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6534 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6535
653667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6537
653868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6539 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6540 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6541 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6542
654369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6544 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6545 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6546 supplied", which is not helpful.
6547
654870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6549 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6550 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6551
655271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6553 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6554 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6555 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6556 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6557 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6558 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6559 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6560
656172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6562 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6563 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6564 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6565 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6566
656773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6568 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6569 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6570 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6571 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6572 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6573
657474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6575 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6576 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6577
657875. Added write_rejectlog option.
6579
658076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6581 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6582 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6583 variables.
6584
658577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6586
658778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6588 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6589 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6590 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6591 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6592 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6593 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6594 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6595
659679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6597 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6598 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6599 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6600 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6601
660280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6603 Haardt.
6604
660581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6606 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6607 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6608 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6609 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6610 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6611 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6612 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6613 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6614
6615
6616Exim version 4.30
6617-----------------
6618
6619 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6620 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6621 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6622
6623 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6624 fixed.
6625
6626 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6627 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6628 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6629
6630 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6631 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6632 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6633 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6634 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6635 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6636
6637 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6638 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6639 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6640 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6641 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6642 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6643 the Exim test suite.
6644
6645 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6646 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6647 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6648 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6649
6650 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6651 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6652 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6653 specify it in this variable.
6654
6655 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6656 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6657 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6658 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6659
6660 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6661 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6662 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6663 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6664
6665 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6666 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6667 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6668 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6669 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6670
6671 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6672
667310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6674 they are logged.
6675
667611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6677 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6678 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6679 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6680 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6681
668212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6683 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6684
668513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6686 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6687 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6688 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6689 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6690
669114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6692 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6693
669415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6695 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6696 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6697
669816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6699 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6700
670117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6702 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6703
670418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6705 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6706 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6707
670819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6709 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6710
671120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6712 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6713 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6714 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6715
671621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6717
671822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6719 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6720 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6721 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6722
672323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6724
672524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6726 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6727
672825. Added .include_if_exists.
6729
673026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6731 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6732 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6733 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6734 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6735 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6736
673727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6738
673928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6740 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6741 this.
6742
674329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6744
674530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6746 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6747
6748 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6749 550 Sender verify failed
6750
6751 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6752 the final line of the response.
6753
675431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6755 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6756 all other user lookups.
6757
675832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6759 delivery time.
6760
676133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6762 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6763 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6764 result into an int without checking.
6765
676634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6767 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6768 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6769
677035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6771 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6772 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6773 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6774
677536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6776 correctly.
6777
677837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6779 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6780
678138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6782 to the empty sender.
6783
678439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6785 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6786 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6787 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6788 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6789 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6790 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6791 panic log.
6792
679340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6794 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6795 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6796 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6797 used.
6798
679941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6800 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6801
680242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6803 timestamps.
6804
680543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6806 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6807
680844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6809
681045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6811 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6812 logs.
6813
681446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6815 as soon as it is encountered.
6816
681747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6818
681948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6820 rewritten to "<>".
6821
682249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6823 recognizes a tab character.
6824
682550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6826 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6827 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6828 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6829
683051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6831
683252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6833 crash.
6834
683553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6836
683754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6838
683955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6840 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6841 2822.
6842
684356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6844 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6845 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6846 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6847 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6848
684957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6850 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6851
685258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6853 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6854 list (.included file names were always shown).
6855
685659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6857 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6858 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6859 root at that time.
6860
686160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6862 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6863
686461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6865
686662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6867
686863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6869
687064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6871 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6872 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6873 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6874 failures to open the logs.
6875
687665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6877 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6878 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6879 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6880 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6881 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6882 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6883
6884
6885Exim version 4.24
6886-----------------
6887
6888 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6889 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6890 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6891 change 4.23/1.
6892
6893 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6894 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6895 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6896
6897 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6898 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6899 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6900
6901 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6902 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6903 causing some misleading effects.
6904
6905 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6906 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6907 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6908
6909 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6910 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6911 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6912 queue-runner function directly.
6913
6914
6915Exim version 4.23
6916-----------------
6917
6918 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6919 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6920
6921 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6922 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6923 was always written to the default place.
6924
6925 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6926 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6927 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6928
6929 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6930
6931 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6932
6933 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6934 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6935 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6936
6937 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6938 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6939 must start.
6940
6941 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6942 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6943 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6944
6945 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6946 command line option is disabled.
6947
6948 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6949 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6950
6951 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6952
6953 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6954
6955 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6956 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6957
695810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6959
696011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6961 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6962 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6963 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6964 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6965 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6966
696712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6968 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6969 timeout.
6970
697113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6972 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6973
697414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6975 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6976
697715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6978 received was valid base64.
6979
698016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6981 name of the variable that was being set.
6982
698317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6984
698518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6986 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6987 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6988 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6989 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6990 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6991
699219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6993
699420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6995 nor realm was specified.
6996
699721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6998 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6999 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7000 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7001
700222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7003 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7004 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7005
700623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7007 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7008 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7009
701024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7011 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7012 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7013 some systems use these upper case variants.
7014
701525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7016 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7017 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7018 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7019
702026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7021
702227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7023 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7024
702528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7026 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7027 expansion variable.
7028
702929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7030
703130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7032 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7033 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7034 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7035
703631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7037 using it.
7038
703932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7040 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7041 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7042
704333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7044 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7045
704634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7047 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7048 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7049 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7050
705135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7052 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7053 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7054
705536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7056
705737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7058 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7059 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7060 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7061 aborted.
7062
706338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7064 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7065 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7066
706739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7068
706940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7070 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7071
707241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7073 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7074
707542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7076 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7077 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7078 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7079 when emails are that large.
7080
7081
7082
7083Exim version 4.22
7084-----------------
7085
7086 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7087 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7088
7089 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7090 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7091 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7092
7093 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7094 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7095 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7096
7097 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7098 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7099 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7100 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7101 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7102
7103 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7104 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7105 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7106 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7107 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7108 ever.
7109
7110 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7111 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7112 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7113 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7114 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7115 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7116 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7117 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7118 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7119 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7120 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7121 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7122 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7123 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7124
7125 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7126 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7127 parameterised it.
7128
7129 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7130 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7131 error should be diagnosed.
7132
7133 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7134 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7135 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7136 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7137 appeared instead of "NULL".
7138
713910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7140 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7141 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7142 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7143 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7144 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7145 proceeds).
7146
7147 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7148 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7149 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7150
7151
7152Exim version 4.21
7153-----------------
7154
7155 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7156 or receiver verification errors.
7157
7158 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7159 name.
7160
7161 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7162 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7163 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7164 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7165
7166 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7167 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7168 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7169 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7170 shouldn't happen again.
7171
7172 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7173 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7174 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7175
7176 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7177 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7178
7179 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7180
7181 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7182 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7183
7184 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7185 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7186 RFC.
7187
718810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7189 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7190 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7191
719211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7193 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7194 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7195 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7196
719712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7198 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7199 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7200 to define what should happen).
7201
720213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7203 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7204 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7205
720614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7207
720815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7209
721016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7211 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7212
4c04137d 721317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7214 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7215 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7216 structure in all cases.
7217
7218 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7219 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7220 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7221 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7222
722318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7224 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7225 domain name.
7226
722719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7228 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7229
723020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7231 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7232
723321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7234 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7235 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7236
723722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7238 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7239 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7240
724123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7242 the book and for uniformity.
7243
724424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7245
724625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7247 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
7248 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7249 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7250 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7251 non-existent command as the problem.
7252
725326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7254 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7255 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7256
725727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7258
725928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7260 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7261 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7262
726329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7264 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7265 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7266 timestamps using strftime().
7267
726830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7269 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7270
727132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7272 transport-time rewrites.
7273
727433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7275 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7276 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7277 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7278
727934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7280 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7281
728235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7283 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7284 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7285 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7286 comma and a space.
7287
728836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7289 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7290 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7291 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7292 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7293 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7294 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7295
729637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7297 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7298 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7299 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7300 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7301
730238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7303 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7304 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7305 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7306 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7307 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7308 remaining text gets split now.
7309
731039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7311 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7312 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7313 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7314
731540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7316 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7317 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7318 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7319 $return_path.
7320
732141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7322 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7323 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7324 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7325 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7326 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7327 passed through if needed.
7328
732942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7330 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7331 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7332 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7333 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7334 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7335
733643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7337 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7338 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7339 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7340 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7341
734244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7343 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7344 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7345 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7346 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7347
734845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7349 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7350 noticed.
7351
735246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7353 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7354 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7355 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7356 mayhem of various kinds.
7357
735847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7359 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7360 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7361 the right test for positive values.
7362
736348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7364 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7365 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7366 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7367 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7368 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7369 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7370 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7371 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7372 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7373 envelope.
7374
737549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7376 module.
7377
737850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7379 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7380 forbidding it.
7381
738251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7383 the existing equality matching.
7384
738552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7386 dealing with inode numbers.
7387
738853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7389 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7390 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7391
739254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7393 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7394 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7395 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7396 local_scan().
7397
739855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7399 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7400 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7401 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7402 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7403 relay addresses has also been removed.
7404
740556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7406
740757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7408 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7409 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7410
741158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7412 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7413 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7414 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7415 processing applies to CR:
7416
7417 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7418 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7419
7420 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7421 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7422 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7423 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7424
742559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7426 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7427 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7428
742960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7430 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7431 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7432 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7433 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7434 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7435 arisen.
7436
743761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7438 program routers.
7439
744062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7441 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7442 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7443 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7444 adds:
7445
7446 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7447
7448 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7449
7450 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7451
745263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7453 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7454 not considered personal.
7455
745664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7457
745865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7459
746066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7461
746267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7463 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7464 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7465 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7466 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7467 header lines, and spool format errors.
7468
746968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7470 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7471 for more flexibility.
7472
747369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7474 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7475 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7476
747770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7478 Sabourenkov.
7479
748071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7481 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7482 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7483 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7484 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7485 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7486 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7487 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7488 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7489
749072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7491 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7492 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7493 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7494 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7495 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7496 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7497
749873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7499 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7500 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7501
750274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7503 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7504 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7505 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7506 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7507 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7508 instead of killing the process with assert().
7509
751075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7511 than Unicode encoding.
7512
751376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7514 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7515 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7516 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7517
751877. Added process_log_path.
7519
752078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7521 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7522
752379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7524 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7525
752680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7527 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7528 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7529
753081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7531 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7532 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7533 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7534 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7535 were applied:
7536
7537 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7538 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7539 as invalid.
7540
754182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7542 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7543 they will be used during message reception.
7544
7545
7546Exim version 4.20
7547-----------------
7548
7549The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7550
7551****