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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
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d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
48
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49TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
51
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52JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
53
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54JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
55
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56PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
57
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58NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
59 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 60
585121e2 61JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 62
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63PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
64
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65PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
66 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
67
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68JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
69 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
70 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 71
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72JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
73
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74JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
75
ea722490 76JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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77 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
78
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79JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
80 Bugzilla 884.
81
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82JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
83 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
84
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85JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
86 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
87
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88PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
89 CVE-2012-5671
90
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91JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
92 authenticators.
93
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94JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
95 for control.
96
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97PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
98
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99PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
100 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
101 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
102 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
103
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104TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
105
106 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
107 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
108 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
109 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
110 the retry rules.
111
112 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
113 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
114 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
115
116 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
117 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
118 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
119 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
120
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121 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
122 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
123 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
124 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
125 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
126 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
127 delivery, as in LMTP.
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129 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
130 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
131
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132TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
133
134 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
135
136 Resent-From: f
137
138 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
139 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
140 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
141 username as equal to the username.
142
143 This change corrects that bug.
144
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145GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
146 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
147 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
148
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149TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
150
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151PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
152 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
153 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
154 NULL dereference and crash.
155
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156JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
157
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158PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
159 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
160 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
161
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162SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
163
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164JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
165 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
166 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
167 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
168 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
169 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
170 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
171 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
172 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
173 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
174 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
175
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176PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
177 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
178
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179PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
180 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
181 Bugzilla 880.
182
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183PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
184 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
185 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
186 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
187 an empty string is now equivalent.
188
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189PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
190 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
191 not performing validation itself.
192
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193PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
194 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
195
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196JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
197 Bugzilla 321, 823.
198
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202
203PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
204 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 205 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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b1770b6e 208Exim version 4.80
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210
211PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
212 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
213 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
214
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215NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
216
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217NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
218 improved.
219
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220NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
221
c1e794ba 222PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 223
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224PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
225
226PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
227 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
228
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229PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
230 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
231
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232PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
233 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
234
f1e05cc7 235PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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236 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
237 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 238
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239PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
240
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241PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
242 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
243
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244PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
245
c45dd180 246PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 247
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248PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
249 non-compliant senders.
250 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
251
eae0036b 252NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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253 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
254 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
255
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256PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
257 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
258 in spool file corruption.
259
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260PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
261 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
262 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
263 "Got SSL error 2".
264
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265TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
266 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
267 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
268
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269JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
270 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
271
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272JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
273
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274PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
275 diagnostics.
276 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
277
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278PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
279 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
280 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
281
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282PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
283 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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284 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
285 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 286
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287PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
288 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
289
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290PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
291 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
292 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
293 resolver implementation change.
294
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295PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
296 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
297
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298PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
299
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300PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
301
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302PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
303 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
304
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305PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
306 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
307
9e45c72b 308JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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309 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
310
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311PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
312 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
313 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
314 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 315 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 316
53947857 317PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 318
eae0036b 319PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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320 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
321 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 322
9e45c72b 323JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 324
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325PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
326 read-only, out of scope).
327 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
328
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329PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
330 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
331 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
332 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
333
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334PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
335
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336PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
337 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
338 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
339 real issues in debug logging.
340
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341PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
342 assignment on my part. Fixed.
343
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344PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
345 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
346 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
347
348PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
349 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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350 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
351 problems.
3375e053 352
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353PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
354 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
355
57eb9e91 356PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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357 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
358 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
359 needs to override this, it can.
360
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361PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
362 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
363 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
364
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365PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
366 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
367 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
368 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
369
3ecab157 370PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
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375
376PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
377 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
378
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379TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
380
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381TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
382 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 383
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384TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
385 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
386
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387TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
388 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
389 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
390
391 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
392 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
393 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
394 not safe for signals.
395
396 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
397 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
398 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
399 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
400 exiwhat.
401
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402TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
403
404 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
405 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
406 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
407 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
408 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
409
410 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
411 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
412 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
413 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
414 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
415 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
416
417 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
418 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
419 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
420 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
421
422 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
423 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
424 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
425 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
426
427 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
428 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
429 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
430 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
431 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
432 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
433 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
434 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
435 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
436
437 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
438 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
439 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
440 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
441
442 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
443 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
444 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
445 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
446 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
447 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
448 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
449 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
450 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
451 details in the main documentation.
452
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453TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
454
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455TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
456
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457TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
458 repository when doing development or release builds.
459
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460PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
461 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 462
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463PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
464 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
465 Bugzilla 97.
466
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467PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
468
9e949f00 469PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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470 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
471
472PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
473 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 474
555ae6af 475PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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476 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
477
478PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
479 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
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481PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
482 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
483
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484PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
485 Bugzilla 1156.
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486 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
487 Bugzilla 1095.
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d6cc7c78 489PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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490 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
491 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
492
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493PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
494
3399bb60 495PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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496
497PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
498 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
499
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504PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
505
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506PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
507 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
508
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509PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
510
e97d1f08
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511PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
512
084c1d8c
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513PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
514 Bugzilla 1098.
515
4e7ee012
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516PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
517 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 518
c8d52a00
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519TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
520 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
521
54e7ce4a
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522PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
523 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
524
5ee6f336
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525PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
526 Bugzilla 1104.
527
c8d52a00 528TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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529 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
530
531TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
532 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
533 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
534 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
535
536PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
537 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 538
10906672 539
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540Exim version 4.75
541-----------------
542
4c9ef03a 543NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
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544 Bugzilla 1073
545
7f3d9eff
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546TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
547 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
548 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
549
159f52d2
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550TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
551 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
552
0cc9542a
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553PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
554 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
555 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
556
f7274286
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557PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
558 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
559
7b797365
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560PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
561 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
562
caacae52
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563NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
564 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
565
09dcaba9
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566NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
567 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
568
bc19a55b
PP
569PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
570 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 571
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572NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
573 Fixes bug 943.
574
b72aab72
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575PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
576 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
577
2fe76745
PP
578PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
579 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
580
76aa570c
PP
581PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
582 SQL string expansion failure details.
583 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
584
f1e5fef5
PP
585PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
586 Patch from Simon Arlott.
587
4d805ee9
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588PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
589 extern declarations in function scope.
590 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
591
cd59ab18
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592PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
593 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
594 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
595 a kernel bug).
596
332f5cf3
PP
597PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
598 Patch from Mark Zealey.
599
29cfeb94
PP
600PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
601 Patch from Mark Zealey.
602
660242ad
PP
603PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
604 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
605
bc4bc4c5
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606PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
607 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
608
2e64baa9
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609NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
610 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
611 Dennis Davis.
612
bddd7526
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613PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
614
6bac1a9a
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615PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
616
552193f0
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617NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
618 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 619
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620TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
621 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
622
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624Exim version 4.74
625-----------------
626
627TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
628 consequences so log it to the panic log.
629
c0ea85ab
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630TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
631 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
632
0761d44e
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633TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
634
0a349494
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635DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
636 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
637 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
638
639PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
640 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
641 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
642
fea24b2e
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643PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
644 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
645 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
646 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
647
6545de78
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648PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
649 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
650 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
651 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
652
1670ef10
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653PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
654 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
655 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
656 arbitrary files.
657
c0886197
PP
658PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
659 (Wolfgang Breyha)
660
b7487bce
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661PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
662 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
663 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
664 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
665 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
666
8c07b69f 667
97fd1e48 668Exim version 4.73
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670
671PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
672 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
673 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
674
6901c596
PP
675PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
676 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
677
a8c8d6b5
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678JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
679
77bb000f
PP
680PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
681
a29e5231
PP
682PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
683
ec5a0394 684PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 685
55c75993
PP
686PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
687
453a6645 688PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
689 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
690 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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691 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
692
8544e77a
PP
693PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
694 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
695 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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696 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
697 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 698
83e029d5
PP
699PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
700
ed7f7860
PP
701PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
702
7d9f747b
PP
703PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
704
4b2241d2
PP
705PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
706
10385c15
PP
707PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
708
dbc4b90d
PP
709PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
710
532be449
PP
711PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
712
6a8de854 713PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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714 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
715 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 716
5dc43717
JJ
717JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
718
719JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
720 "exim" to be used
55c75993 721
3346ab01
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722PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
723 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
724
491fab4c
PP
725PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
726 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
727 Notification from John Horne.
728
13eb9497
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729PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
730 compatible.
731
732PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
733 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
734 it normally works.
735
7f36d675
DW
736DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
737 access.
738
c1d94452
DW
739DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
740 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
741 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
742
e2f5dc15
DW
743DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
744 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
745 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
746 configuration file.
747
cd25e41d
DW
748DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
749 option (effectively making it always true).
750
261dc43e
DW
751DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
752 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
753
fa32850b
DW
754DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
755 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
756
79d4bc3d
PP
757PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
758 run-time user, instead of root.
759
43236f35 760PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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761 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
762
fb08281f
DW
763DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
764 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
765 arguments.
3346ab01 766
74935b98
DW
767DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
768 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
769 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
770
90b6341f
DW
771DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
772
57730b52
ML
773NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
774
66581d1e 775
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776Exim version 4.72
777-----------------
778
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779JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
780 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
781 typos
465e92cf 782
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783JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
784 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
785 (Finput)
edae0343 786
9bd3e22c
NM
787NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
788 Patch from Alain Williams
789
bb576ff7
NM
790NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
791
5a1a5845
NM
792NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
793 Patch from Andreas Metzler
794
981a9fad
NM
795NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
796 Patch from Kirill Miazine
797
7fc497ee
NM
798NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
799
1a41defa
JJ
800JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
801
a466095c 802NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 803 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 804
94a6bd0b
NM
805TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
806
807TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
808
809MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
810 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
811 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
812
c1b141a8
NM
813NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
814 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 815
b26eacf1 816NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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817 Patch by Simon Arlott
818
179c5980 819PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 820 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 821
9bd3e22c 822
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823Exim version 4.71
824-----------------
825
7d9f747b 826TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 827
f013fb92
NM
828NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
829
0eb8eedd
NM
830NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
831
663ee6d9
NM
832NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
833
177ebd9b
NM
834NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
835
7c6d71af 836
210f147e
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837Exim version 4.70
838-----------------
839
cdd3bb85 840TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 841 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
842
843TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
844 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 845 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
846
847TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
848 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 849 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
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850
851TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
852 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
853
210f147e
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854NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
855 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
856 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
857 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
858
deafd5b3
NM
859NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
860 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 861 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 862
089793a4
TF
863TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
864
5f16ca82
TF
865TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
866
dae9d94e 867NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 868 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 869
7d9f747b 870NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 871
06864c44
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872TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
873 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
874 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
875 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
876
65a7d8c3 877NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 878 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 879
23510047 880TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 881
7d9f747b 882NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 883
7d8eec3a 884NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 885 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 886
89dec7b6
TF
887TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
888 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 889
a99de90c
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890TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
891 that they are available at delivery time.
892
e2803e40
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893TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
894
7199e1ee
TF
895TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
896 incoming_port log selectors.
897
e276e04b
TF
898TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
899 setting expands to an empty string.
900
ce552449 901NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 902 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 903
e765a0f1 904NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 905 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 906
4f054c63 907NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 908 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 909
7d9f747b
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910NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
911 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 912
7d9f747b
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913NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
914 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 915
b52bc06e 916NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 917 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 918
447de4b0
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919NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
920
4c69d561 921NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 922 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 923
d5c39246 924NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 925 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 926
0b23848a
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927TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
928
8f3414a1 929NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 930 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 931
fb6f955d
NM
932NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
933
934NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 935
7d9f747b
PP
936NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
937 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 938
7d9f747b
PP
939NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
940 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 941
7d9f747b
PP
942NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
943 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 944
7d9f747b
PP
945NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
946 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 947
7d9f747b
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948NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
949 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 950
7d9f747b
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951NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
952 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 953
7d9f747b
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954NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
955 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 956
7d9f747b 957NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 958 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 959
7d9f747b 960NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 961
7d9f747b
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962NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
963 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 964
7d9f747b 965NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 966
7d9f747b 967NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 968
7d9f747b 969NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 970
7d9f747b 971NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 972
17792b53 973NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 974 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 975
7d9f747b
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976NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
977 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 978
91576cec 979NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 980 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 981
7d9f747b
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982NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
983 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 984
7d9f747b 985NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 986
7d9f747b 987NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 988
7d9f747b 989NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 990
7d9f747b 991NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 992
deafd5b3 993
47db1125
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994Exim version 4.69
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996
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997TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
998 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
999 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1000
1001 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1002 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1003 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1004 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1005 build errors in sieve.c.
1006
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NM
1007NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1008 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1009 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1010
f13cddcb
SC
1011SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1012
7d9f747b 1013NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1014
7d9f747b 1015NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1016
7d9f747b 1017NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1018
1019
eb4c0de6
PH
1020Exim version 4.68
1021-----------------
1022
1023PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1024
6a3bceb1
PH
1025PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1026 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1027 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1028 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1029 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1030 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1031 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1032 for iplsearch lookups.
1033
1034 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1035 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1036 previously such lookups could never work.
1037
1038 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1039 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1040 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1041
2e30fa9d
TK
1042TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1043 version.
1044
0806a9c5
MH
1045MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1046 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1047 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1048 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1049 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1050 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1051
ae276964
TK
1052TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1053 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1054
0f2cbd1b
MH
1055MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1056 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1057 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1058 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1059 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1060 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1061
2b85bce7
PH
1062PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1063 local_scan API.
1064
93655c46
PH
1065PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1066
6c512171
PH
1067PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1068 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1069 encrypted.
1070
1071PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1072 by clients under certain conditions.
1073
aa6dc513
PH
1074PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1075 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1076
a96603a0
PH
1077PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1078
8f240103
PH
1079PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1080 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1081
1082PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1083
d677b2f2
PH
1084PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1085
d52120f2
PH
1086PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1087
64f2600a
PH
1088PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1089 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1090
8669f003
PH
1091PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1092
a4dc33a8
PH
1093PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1094 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1095
d6a60c0f
PH
1096PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1097
8f128379
PH
1098PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1099
8932dffe
PH
1100PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1101 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1102 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1103 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1104
ddea74fa 1105PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1106 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1107 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1108
ddea74fa 1109PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1110 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1111
ddea74fa
PH
1112PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1113
ce9f225c
PH
1114PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1115
19897d52
PH
1116PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1117
bc64a74d
PH
1118PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1119 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1120 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1121
eb4c0de6 1122
b4ed4da0
PH
1123Exim version 4.67
1124-----------------
1125
22ad45c9
MH
1126MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1127 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1128 Jan Srzednicki.
1129
b4ed4da0
PH
1130PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1131 issue a MAIL command.
1132
431b7361
PH
1133PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1134
1135 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1136
1137 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1138 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1139 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1140 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1141 item. This has been fixed.
1142
1143PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1144 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1145
83da1223
PH
1146PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1147 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1148
54fc8428
PH
1149PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1150 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1151 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1152
34c5e8dd
SC
1153SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1154
bbe15da8
PH
1155PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1156 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1157 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1158 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1159 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1160
0e8a9471
MH
1161MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1162 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1163 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1164
f0872424
PH
1165PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1166 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1167 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1168 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1169
b01dd148
PH
1170PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1171
6bf342e1
PH
1172PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1173
273f34d0
PH
1174PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1175 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1176 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1177 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1178 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1179
cf8b11a5
PH
1180PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1181
41c7c167
PH
1182PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1183 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1184 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1185 values).
1186
9c57cbc0
PH
1187PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1188
f3f065bb
PH
1189PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1190
047bdd8c
PH
1191PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1192
0ce9abe6
PH
1193PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1194
0e22dfd1
PH
1195PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1196
4c590bd1
PH
1197PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1198 no_callout_flush is set.
1199
09945f1e
PH
1200PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1201 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1202 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1203 fixed.
1204
c51b8e75
PH
1205PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1206
e28326d8
PH
1207PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1208 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1209 other ACL rejections are.
1210
75b1493f
PH
1211PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1212 with slight modification.
1213
7c5214ec
PH
1214PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1215 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1216
4311097e
PH
1217PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1218 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1219 connection.
1220
29f89cad
PH
1221PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1222 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1223
5e687460
SC
1224SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1225
c3611384
PH
1226PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1227 expansion side effects.
1228
5a11a7b4
PH
1229PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1230 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1231 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1232 be the same.
1233
0e20aff9
MH
1234MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1235 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1236 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1237
ca86f471
PH
1238PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1239 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1240 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1241 were accidentally chopped off.
1242
a14e5636
PH
1243PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1244 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1245 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1246 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1247 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1248 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1249 pipelining has not been advertised.
1250
ec95d1a6
PH
1251PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1252
42855d71
PH
1253PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1254 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1255 This has been fixed.
1256
57c2c631
PH
1257PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1258 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1259 reported on Solaris.
1260
58c01c94
PH
1261PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1262 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1263 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1264 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1265 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1266 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1267 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1268
dee5a20a
PH
1269PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1270 cpus.
1271
d2ee6114
PH
1272PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1273
b2d5182b
PH
1274PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1275
79749a79
PH
1276PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1277 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1278 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1279 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1280 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1281 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1282
c456d9bb
PH
1283PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1284 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1285 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1286 host_all_ignored option.
1287
cd9868ec
PH
1288PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1289 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1290 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1291 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1292 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1293 is what is supposed to happen).
1294
ebeaf996
PH
1295PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1296 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1297 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1298 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1299 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1300 uses the Exim user.
1301
2679d413
PH
1302PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1303 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1304 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1305 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1306 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1307 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1308 users.
1309
84024b72
PH
1310PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1311
8005d38e
SC
1312SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1313 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1314 (Jez Hancock).
1315 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1316 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1317
3298c6c6
SC
1318SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1319
a43a27c5
PH
1320PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1321
58eb016e 1322PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1323 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1324 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1325 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1326 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1327 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1328 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1329 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1330 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1331 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1332 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1333
b43a74ea
PH
1334PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1335 advertised in response to EHLO.
1336
b4ed4da0 1337
5dd1517f
PH
1338Exim version 4.66
1339-----------------
1340
1341PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1342 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1343
1344 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1345 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1346
1347 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1348 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1349 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1350
1351 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1352 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1353 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1354 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1355 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1356
1357
93cfa765
TK
1358Exim version 4.65
1359-----------------
1360
1361TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1362 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1363 versions. (#438)
1364
d6066548
MH
1365MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1366 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1367 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1368
4362ff0d
PH
1369PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1370 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1371 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1372 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1373 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1374 rather than extend the field.
1375
93cfa765 1376
944e9e9c
TF
1377Exim version 4.64
1378-----------------
aa41d2de 1379
21d74bd9
TK
1380TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1381 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1382 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1383 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1384 these files.
1385
1386TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1387 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1388 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1389
1390TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1391 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1392 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1393
1394TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1395 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1396 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1397 in the field name.
1398
2b1c6e3a
PH
1399PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1400 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1401 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1402 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1403 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1404 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1405 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1406 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1407 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1408 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1409 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1410
1f872c80
PH
1411PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1412 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1413
1414PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1415 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1416 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1417 ignores EPIPE as well.
1418
d203e649
PH
1419PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1420 (quoted-printable decoding).
1421
cc2ed8f7 1422PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1423 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1424
ddfcd446
PH
1425PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1426
d45b1de8
PH
1427PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1428
1429PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1430
38a0a95f 1431PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1432 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1433
a2405d83
JJ
1434JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1435 in 4.64-PH/09.
1436
1437JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1438 miscellaneous code fixes
1439
6ea85e9a
PH
1440PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1441 rejections.
1442
26da7e20
PH
1443PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1444 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1445 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1446 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1447 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1448 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1449 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1450 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1451
14aa5a05 1452PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1453 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1454 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1455 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1456 function.
1457 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1458 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1459 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1460 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1461 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1462 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1463 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1464 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1465 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1466
ff75a1f7
PH
1467PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1468 decoding.
1469
e6f6568e
PH
1470PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1471 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1472 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1473 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1474 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1475 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1476 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1477 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1478
d6f6e0dc
PH
1479PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1480 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1481 list.
1482
322050c2
PH
1483PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1484 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1485 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1486 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1487 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1488 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1489 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1490 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1491 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1492 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1493 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1494 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1495 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1496
08955dd3
PH
1497PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1498 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1499 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1500 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1501 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1502 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1503 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1504
1eccaa59
PH
1505PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1506 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1507 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1508 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1509 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1510 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1511 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1512 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1513 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1514 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1515
602e59e5
PH
1516PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1517 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1518 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1519 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1520 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1521
411ef850
PH
1522PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1523 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1524 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1525 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1526 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1527 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1528 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1529
7befa435
PH
1530PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1531 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1532 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1533 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1534 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1535 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1536 been verified.
1537
48da4259 1538PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1539 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1540 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1541 and authorization.)
1542
48da4259
PH
1543PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1544 if any retry times were supplied.
1545
d1d5595c
PH
1546PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1547 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1548 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1549
0ef732d9
PH
1550PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1551
328895cc
PH
1552PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1553
fd700877
PH
1554PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1555 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1556 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1557 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1558 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1559 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1560
8dce1a6f
PH
1561PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1562 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1563
17af4a17
PH
1564PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1565 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1566 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1567
1568PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1569 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1570 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1571 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1572 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1573 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1574 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1575 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1576 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1577
1578 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1579 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1580 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1581 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1582 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1583 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1584 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1585 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1586 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1587
1588 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1589 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1590 hammering the server.
1591
c1114884
PH
1592PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1593 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1594
7a0743eb
PH
1595PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1596
0d85fa3f
PH
1597PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1598 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1599 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1600
1bf43b78
PH
1601PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1602 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1603 one case where this was not true.
1604
520de300
PH
1605PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1606 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1607 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1608 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1609 fails.
1610
48c7f9e2
PH
1611PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1612 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1613 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1614 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1615 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1616 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1617 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1618 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1619 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1620 smtp transport.
1621
99ea1c86
PH
1622PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1623 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1624 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1625 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1626
a2042e78
PH
1627PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1628 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1629
4fbcfc2e
PH
1630PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1631 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1632 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1633
aa41d2de
PH
1634PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1635
af561417
PH
1636PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1637
3cc66b45
PH
1638PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1639
194cc0e4
PH
1640PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1641 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1642 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1643 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1644
a401ddaa
PH
1645PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1646 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1647
4e88a19f
PH
1648PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1649 be meaningful with "accept".
1650
d7d7b289
SC
1651SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1652 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1653
1654SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1655 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1656 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1657
1658SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1659 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1660 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1661 there is data to show.
1662 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1663
1664SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1665 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1666 as well as the number of messages.
1667
1668SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1669 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1670 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1671
1672SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1673 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1674 have a flag are now skipped.
1675
1676SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1677 Added the -emptyok flag.
1678
1679SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1680 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1681
0ea2a468
JJ
1682JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1683 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1684 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1685
1686JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1687 match 4.64-PH/13
1688
1689JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1690 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1691
1692JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1693
1694JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1695 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1696
8a10f5a4
PH
1697PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1698
30e18802
PH
1699PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1700 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1701 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1702 contravention of the specifications.
1703
55728a4f
PH
1704PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1705 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1706 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1707
d7837193
PH
1708PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1709 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1710 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1711
87054a31
PH
1712PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1713
ea2c01d2
MH
1714MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1715 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1716 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1717 some point in the past.
1718
e4fa6968
PH
1719PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1720 transport during callout processing was broken.
1721
56f5d9bd
PH
1722PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1723 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1724
922e1c28
PH
1725PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1726 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1727
21eb6e72
PH
1728PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1729 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1730
a0540757
PH
1731PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1732
944e9e9c 1733
478be7b0
SC
1734Exim version 4.63
1735-----------------
1736
1737SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1738 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1739
1740SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1741 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1742 there is data to show.
1743 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1744
1745SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1746 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1747
2b965a65
TF
1748TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1749 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1750
45b91596
PH
1751TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1752 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1753
c59f5781
TF
1754TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1755 submissions from trusted users.
1756
90fc3069
TF
1757TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1758 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1759
6083aca0
TF
1760TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1761 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1762 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1763 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1764 there is now a framework to start from.
1765
765b530f
PH
1766PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1767 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1768 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1769
4e167a8c
PH
1770PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1771
4608d683
PH
1772PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1773
b8dc3e4a
PH
1774PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1775
5418e93b
PH
1776PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1777 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1778 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1779
b4a9bda2
PH
1780PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1781 libradius.
1782
45b91596
PH
1783PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1784 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1785 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1786
5547e2c5
PH
1787PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1788 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1789 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1790 its arguments.
1791
dbcef0ea
PH
1792PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1793 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1794 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1795 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1796 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1797
25257489
PH
1798PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1799 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1800
c816d124
PH
1801PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1802
a9ccd69a
PH
1803PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1804 operations in malware.c.
1805
75fa1910
PH
1806PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1807 signatures.
1808
a7d7aa58
PH
1809PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1810 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1811 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1812 all.
1813
42119b09
PH
1814PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1815 statements to "add_header".
1816
41609df5
PH
1817PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1818 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1819
a5bd321b
PH
1820PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1821 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1822 latter.
1823
e85a7ad5 1824PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1825 so that it is now:
1826
e85a7ad5
PH
1827 ${if or { \
1828 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1829 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1830 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1831 }{no}{yes}}
1832
e85a7ad5
PH
1833 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1834 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1835
d8fe1c03
PH
1836PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1837 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1838
16282d2b
PH
1839PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1840 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1841 any possible encoding problems.
1842
35d40a98
PH
1843PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1844 but not after initializing Perl.
1845
034d99ab
PH
1846PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1847 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1848 apparently, which is not desirable.
1849
6ec97b1b
PH
1850PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1851 queries.
1852
e22ca4ac
JJ
1853JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1854 --not options
1855
1856JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1857
33d73e3b
PH
1858PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1859 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1860 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1861 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1862
9ecb03f3
PH
1863PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1864 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1865 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1866
084efe8d
PH
1867PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1868 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1869 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1870 0.12.
1871
366fc9f0
PH
1872PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1873 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1874 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1875 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1876 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1877
c59f5781 1878
c887c79e
TF
1879Exim version 4.62
1880-----------------
1881
1882TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1883 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1884
1cce3af8
PH
1885PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1886 patch).
1887
afb3eaaf
PH
1888PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1889 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1890 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1891 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1892 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1893 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1894 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1895 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1896 451 error is used.
1897
e173618b
PH
1898PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1899
dd16e114
PH
1900PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1901 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1902 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1903
f7fd3850
PH
1904PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1905 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1906 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1907 odd errors.
1908
d87df92c
PH
1909PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1910 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1911
7e9f683d
PH
1912PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1913 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1914 option (which defaults to 0600).
1915
bfad5236
PH
1916PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1917
01c490df
PH
1918PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1919 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1920 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1921 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1922 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1923 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1924 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1925
d6629cdc
PH
1926PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1927
1cce3af8 1928
214e2000
PH
1929Exim version 4.61
1930-----------------
1931
1932PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1933 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1934 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1935 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1936 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1937 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1938 addresses as local.
1939
f9daeae0
PH
1940PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1941 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1942
7e66e54d
PH
1943PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1944
c8ea1597
PH
1945PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1946 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1947 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1948 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1949 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1950 grumble.
1951
911f6fde
PH
1952PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1953 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1954
47ca6d6c
PH
1955PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1956 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1957 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1958 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1959 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1960
ed0e9820
PH
1961PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1962 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1963 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1964 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1965
eff37e47
PH
1966PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1967 be the same on different OS.
1968
1921d2ea
PH
1969PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1970 testing.
1971
b3f69ca8
JJ
1972JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1973 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1974
1975JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1976 in 4.61-PH/06
1977
424a1c63
PH
1978PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1979 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1980 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1981 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1982 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1983 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1984 bounce message.
1985
7a100415
PH
1986PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1987 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1988 when Exim was called.
1989
19b9dc85
PH
1990PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1991 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1992
309bd837
PH
1993PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1994 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1995 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1996 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1997
59e82a2a
PH
1998PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1999 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2000 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2001 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2002 changes:
2003
2004 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2005 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2006 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2007
2008 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2009 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2010 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2011
9edc04ce
PH
2012PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2013 feature).
2014
1349e1e5
PH
2015PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2016 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2017 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2018 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2019 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2020 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2021 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2022 values from the SRV records were lost.
2023
ea49d0e1
PH
2024PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2025 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2026 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2027
064a94c9
PH
2028PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2029 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2030 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2031
727071f8
PH
2032PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2033 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2034 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2035 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2036 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2037 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2038 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2039 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2040 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2041 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2042
f78eb7c6
PH
2043PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2044 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2045 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2046
21c28500
PH
2047PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2048 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2049
2050PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2051 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2052 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2053 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2054 is given.
2055
1688f43b
PH
2056PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2057 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2058 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2059
2060PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2061 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2062 PH/23 above applies.
2063
9675b384
PH
2064PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2065 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2066 (for which there is an explicit test).
2067
6a3f1455
PH
2068PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2069
dac79d3e
PH
2070PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2071 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2072 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2073 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2074 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2075
5977a0b3
PH
2076PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2077 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2078 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2079 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2080
c91535f3
PH
2081PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2082 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2083 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2084
0d46a8c8
PH
2085PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2086
278c6e6c
PH
2087PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2088
2cbb4081
PH
2089PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2090 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2091 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2092
3eef829e
PH
2093PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2094 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2095 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2096 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2097 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2098
1ab95fa6
PH
2099PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2100 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2101 the message gets confusing).
2102
230205fc
PH
2103PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2104 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2105 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2106 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2107
75e0e026
PH
2108PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2109 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2110 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2111 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2112 same order.
2113
2114PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2115 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2116 the different processes.
2117
145396a6
PH
2118PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2119
3cd34f13
PH
2120PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2121
11121d3d
JJ
2122JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2123 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2124
2125JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2126 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2127
2128JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2129 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2130 messages matching specified criteria.
2131
8def5aaf
PH
2132PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2133
929ba01c
PH
2134PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2135 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2136
2632889e
PH
2137PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2138 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2139 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2140 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2141 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2142 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2143 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2144 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2145 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2146 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2147
944a9c55
PH
2148PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2149 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2150 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2151
4a23603b
PH
2152PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2153
4730f942
PH
2154PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2155 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2156 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2157 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2158 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2159 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2160 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2161 the variable.
2162
30dba1e6
PH
2163PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2164 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2165
382afc6b
PH
2166PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2167
a86229cf
PH
2168PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2169
50c99ba6
PH
2170PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2171
d35e429d
PH
2172PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2173 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2174 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2175 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2176 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2177 size of the count of files.
2178
f90d018c
PH
2179PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2180
75def545
PH
2181PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2182 used in LMTP mode:
2183
2184 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2185 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2186 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2187 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2188
2189 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2190 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2191 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2192
2193PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2194 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2195 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2196 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2197 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2198
c46782ef
PH
2199PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2200 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2201
71fafd95
PH
2202PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2203 will now be deprecated.
2204
2c5db4fd
PH
2205PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2206
9cf6b11a
JJ
2207JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2208 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2209 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2210
2211JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2212 with very large, slow to parse queues
2213
2214JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2215
2216JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2217
898d150f
PH
2218PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2219 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2220 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2221 SMTP output lines.
2222
46218253
PH
2223PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2224 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2225 Sieve code now uses this.
2226
e97957bc
PH
2227PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2228 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2229
81e509d7
PH
2230PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2231 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2232
3d240ff7
PH
2233PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2234
b37c4101
PH
2235PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2236 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2237 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2238 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2239 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2240
79378e0f
PH
2241PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2242 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2243 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2244 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2245
e49c7bb4
PH
2246PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2247
d114ec46
PH
2248PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2249
f3d7df6c
PH
2250PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2251 is preferred over IPv4.
2252
715ab376
PH
2253PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2254 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2255 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2256 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2257 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2258 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2259 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2260
6b31b150
PH
2261PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2262 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2263 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2264
2265PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2266
d515a917
PH
2267PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2268 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2269 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2270 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2271 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2272 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2273 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2274 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2275 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2276 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2277 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2278
9b8fadde
PH
2279PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2280 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2281 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2282
214e2000 2283
5de37277
PH
2284Exim version 4.60
2285-----------------
2286
cc38ddbf
PH
2287PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2288
2289 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2290 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2291
2292 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2293 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2294 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2295
72fdd6ae
PH
2296PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2297
2298 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2299 not a single digit.
2300
2301 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2302 string.
2303
2304 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2305 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2306 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2307 silly things.
2308
2309 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2310 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2311
2312 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2313 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2314
cb741023
PH
2315PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2316 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2317 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2318
f174f16e
PH
2319PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2320 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2321
c25242d7
PH
2322PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2323 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2324
2325 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2326
2327 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2328 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2329 this:
2330
2331 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2332
82c19f95
PH
2333PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2334 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2335 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2336 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2337 identical. For example:
2338
2339 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2340
2341 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2342 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2343 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2344
d7ffbc12
PH
2345PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2346 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2347 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2348 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2349
9f526266
PH
2350PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2351 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2352 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2353 message.
2354
87fcc8b9
PH
2355PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2356
2357 o fixes some comments
2358 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2359 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2360 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2361 and documents the missing references header update
2362
2363 and most important:
2364
2365 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2366 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2367 result)
2368
456682f5
PH
2369PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2370 Electronic Mail") by including:
2371
2372 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2373
2374 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2375 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2376 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2377 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2378 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2379
2380 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2381
2382 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2383
2384 The auto-replied keyword:
2385
2386 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2387 message by an automatic process,
2388
2389 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2390
2391 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2392 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2393
2394 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2395 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2396 other messages.
2397
3e46c1aa
PH
2398PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2399 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2400
49826d12
PH
2401PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2402
eba0c039
PH
2403PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2404 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2405 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2406
a0d6ba8a
PH
2407PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2408 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2409 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2410
f0917727
PH
2411PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2412 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2413 and treats the condition as false.
2414
096fee00
PH
2415PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2416
024bd3c2
PH
2417PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2418 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2419 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2420 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2421 not changing the active code.
2422
2423 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2424 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2425
2426 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2427 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2428
df199fec
PH
2429PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2430 (Bugzilla #53).
2431
d27f1df3
PH
2432PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2433 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2434 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2435 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2436 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2437 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2438 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2439 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2440 the text comparison.
2441
96776534
PH
2442PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2443 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2444 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2445 The same fix has been applied.
2446
5de37277 2447
9a799bc0
PH
2448Exim version 4.54
2449-----------------
2450
2451PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2452 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2453 It now does.
2454
99a4b039
PH
2455PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2456 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2457
2458PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2459
4b233853
PH
2460PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2461 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2462 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2463 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2464 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2465
8857ccfd
PH
2466TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2467 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2468 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2469 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2470 or /domain=).
2471
433a2980
PH
2472PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2473 testing suite.
2474
3e46c1aa 2475
9a799bc0 2476
e3a311ba
TK
2477Exim version 4.53
2478-----------------
2479
2480TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2481 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2482
13b685f9
PH
2483PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2484
395ff96d
PH
2485PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2486
5b68f6e4
PH
2487PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2488 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2489 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2490
1ab52c69
PH
2491PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2492 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2493 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2494
b07e6aa3
PH
2495PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2496 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2497 operating systems.
2498
254e032f
PH
2499PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2500 ${stat: expansion item.
2501
3af76a81
PH
2502PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2503 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2504
2548ba04
PH
2505PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2506 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2507 file for comments.
2508
b6c6011d
PH
2509PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2510
cf39cf57
PH
2511PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2512 setting.
2513
f1513293
PH
2514PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2515 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2516
727549a4
PH
2517TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2518
af46795e
PH
2519PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2520 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2521 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2522 the end of the subprocess.
2523
d7b47fd0
PH
2524PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2525 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2526 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2527 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2528 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2529
ee744174
JJ
2530JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2531
b582ab87
PH
2532TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2533
41a13e0a
PH
2534PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2535 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2536
f625cc5a
PH
2537PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2538
2539PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2540
21f7af35
PH
2541PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2542 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2543 HP-UX compiler.
2544
31480e42
PH
2545PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2546
2d280592
PH
2547PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2548 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2549 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2550
7cd1141b
PH
2551PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2552 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2553
2554PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2555 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2556
750af86e
PH
2557PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2558 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2559
2560 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2561 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2562
2563 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2564 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2565 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2566 contributed by a Radius user.
2567
2568PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2569 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2570
4304270b
TK
2571TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2572 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2573
750af86e
PH
2574PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2575 available.
2576
64ffc24f
PH
2577PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2578 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2579 received.
2580
5dd9625b
PH
2581PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2582 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2583 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2584 header lines when this was not necessary.
2585
5591031b
PH
2586PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2587
ba18e66a
PH
2588PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2589 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2590 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2591 exists".
2592
9cec981f
PH
2593PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2594 -bV or -d is used.
2595
aa2b5c79
PH
2596PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2597 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2598 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2599 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2600
48a53b7f
PH
2601PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2602
1c59d63b
PH
2603PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2604
671012da
TK
2605TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2606
1509d3a8
PH
2607PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2608
2609PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2610 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2611 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2612 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2613 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2614 settings.
2615
2616PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2617
2fe1a124
PH
2618PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2619 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2620 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2621 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2622 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2623 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2624 which is clearly wrong.
2625
8800895a
PH
2626PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2627
ccfdb010
PH
2628PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2629 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2630 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2631 subsequently added.
2632
1130bfb0
PH
2633PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2634 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2635
ebcb507f
PH
2636PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2637
c35e155c
PH
2638PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2639 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2640
95d1f782
PH
2641PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2642 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2643
fd6de02e
PH
2644PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2645 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2646
58de37c5
PH
2647PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2648 recipients, not senders.
2649
261cf466
TF
2650TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2651 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2652
3ee512ff
PH
2653PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2654
e08c430f
PH
2655PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2656
bef5a11f
PH
2657PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2658 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2659 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2660 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2661
7546de58
TF
2662TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2663
e5d5a95f
TF
2664TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2665 clock is set back in time.
2666
2e88a017
TF
2667TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2668 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2669
a5f65aa4
TF
2670TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2671 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2672
e7726cbf
PH
2673PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2674 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2675 (see PH/47 above).
2676
a7fdad5b
TF
2677TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2678 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2679 header rewrites.
2680
6af56900
PH
2681PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2682 type ("H").
2683
0925ede6
PH
2684PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2685
66afa403
TF
2686TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2687 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2688 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2689
0154e85a
TF
2690TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2691 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2692 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2693 helo verification defer as a failure.
2694
16f12c76
PH
2695PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2696 actual error message.
2697
bbe902f0 2698
e5a9dba6
PH
2699Exim version 4.52
2700-----------------
2701
2702TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2703
22c3b60b
PH
2704PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2705 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2706 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2707 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2708
06a9b4b5
PH
2709TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2710
c1ac6996
PH
2711PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2712 can still be requested.
2713
9c7a242c
PH
2714PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2715 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2716 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2717 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2718
87ba3f5f
PH
2719TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2720 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2721 circumstances, but probably never did.
2722
2723PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2724 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2725 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2726 in the header line.
2727
29aba418
TF
2728TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2729
fe0dab11
TF
2730TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2731 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2732
11d337a4
TK
2733TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2734
2735TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2736
415c8f3b
PH
2737PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2738 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2739 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2740 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2741 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2742 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2743
958541e9
PH
2744PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2745 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2746 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2747 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2748 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2749 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2750
c206415f
TK
2751TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2752 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2753
2a4be8f9
PH
2754PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2755 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2756
1cba11c5
SC
2757SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2758 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2759
2760SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2761
2762SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2763
2764SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2765
2766SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2767
2768SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2769
2770SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2771
1005d00e
TK
2772TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2773
2774TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2775 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2776 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2777
2778TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2779 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2780 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2781 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2782
9b4768fa
PH
2783PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2784 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2785 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2786
2787PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2788 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2789 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2790 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2791
0d7eb84a
PH
2792PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2793 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2794 to be made).
2795
2796PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2797 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2798 should work with maildirs and everything.
2799
40727bee
TK
2800TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2801 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2802
554d2369
TF
2803TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2804 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2805
1f922db1
PH
2806PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2807 function for BDB 4.3.
2808
ef213c3b
PH
2809PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2810
8ac170f3
PH
2811PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2812 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2813 involved.
2814
b1c749bb
PH
2815PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2816 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2817 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2818 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2819 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2820 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2821
4aac9b49
PH
2822PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2823 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2824 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2825 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2826 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2827 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2828 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2829 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2830
294520c8
TK
2831TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2832 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2833 details.
2834
5bd022fe
PH
2835PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2836 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2837
90e9ce59
PH
2838PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2839 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2840 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2841 test. It is now used for both.
2842
5ea81592
PH
2843PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2844 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2845 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2846 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2847 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2848 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2849
c6c2dc1d
PH
2850PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2851 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2852 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2853 string_vformat().
2854
fffffe4c
PH
2855PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2856 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2857 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2858
9a26b6b2
PH
2859PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2860 experimental DomainKeys support:
2861
2862 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2863 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2864 the control was given.
2865
2866 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2867
4aee0225
PH
2868PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2869
32d668a5
PH
2870PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2871
8187c3f3
PH
2872PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2873 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2874 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2875 db.h files).
2876
ff790e47 2877PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2878 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2879 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2880 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2881 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2882 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2883 course.
ff790e47 2884
5417f6d1
PH
2885PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2886 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2887 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2888 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2889 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2890 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2891
59cf8544
PH
2892PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2893 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2894 do -d+all out of habit.
2895
e7ad8a65
PH
2896PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2897 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2898 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2899
ade42478
PH
2900PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2901 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2902 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2903 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2904 record types that Exim uses.
2905
182ad5cf
PH
2906PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2907 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2908 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2909 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2910 non-existent file that was broken.
2911
b0d9fc80
TK
2912TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2913 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2914
2915TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2916 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2917 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2918
2919TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2920
47c7a64a
PH
2921PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2922 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2923 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2924 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2925 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2926 same time.
2927
a388bce4
SC
2928SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2929 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2930 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2931 at a slight CPU cost.
2932
2933SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2934 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2935
2936SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2937 by Marc Sherman.
2938
0793e4ed
SC
2939SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2940
c58b88df
PH
2941PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2942 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2943
e7ad8a65 2944
7982096b
PH
2945Exim version 4.51
2946-----------------
2947
1a46a8c5
PH
2948TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2949 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2950
2f079f46 2951TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2952
2953TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2954
2955PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2956 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2957
2958PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2959 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2960 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2961 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2962 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2963 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2964 file.
2965
2966PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2967 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2968 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2969 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2970 these two options.
2971
2972PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2973 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2974 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2975 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2976 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2977 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2978 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2979 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2980
2981PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2982 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2983
2984PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2985 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2986 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2987 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2988 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2989 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2990
2991PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2992 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2993 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2994 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2995
2996PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2997 Finch).
2998
2999PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3000 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3001
49c2d5ea
PH
3002PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3003 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3004 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3005 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3006 message.
49c2d5ea 3007
bf759a8b
PH
3008PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3009
83364d30
PH
3010PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3011 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3012
7999bbd7
PH
3013PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3014 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3015 to what was transported.)
3016
7dbf77c9
PH
3017TF/01 Added $received_time.
3018
74e0617f
PH
3019PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3020 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3021 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3022 spamd_address settings.
3023
2f079f46
PH
3024PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3025 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3026 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3027 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3028 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3029
8c841523
PH
3030PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3031
7766a4f0
PH
3032PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3033 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3034 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3035 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3036 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3037
8b417f2c
PH
3038PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3039 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3040
901f42cb
PH
3041PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3042 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3043 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3044 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3045 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3046 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3047 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3048 for failure.
3049
f9b9210e
PH
3050PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3051 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3052 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3053 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3054 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3055 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3056 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3057 "input=".
3058
54cdb463
PH
3059PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3060
cf00dad6
PH
3061PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3062 driver and ACL definitions.
3063
acb1b346
PH
3064PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3065 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3066
c5ddb310
PH
3067PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3068 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3069 understands it better than I do:
3070
3071 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3072 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3073
3074 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3075 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3076 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3077 => three warnings about OTP not working
3078 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3079
3080 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3081 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3082 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3083 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3084 for each call.)
3085 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3086 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3087
3088 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3089 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3090 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3091
31619da6
PH
3092PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3093 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3094 specified.
3095
bebaf0fc
PH
3096PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3097 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3098 "Linux".
3099
475fe28a
PH
3100PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3101 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3102 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3103
3104 warn !verify = sender
3105 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3106
3107 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3108 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3109
7e8bec7a
PH
3110PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3111
3112 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3113 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3114
3115 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3116 nomenclature these days.)
3117
e4a89c47
PH
3118PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3119 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3120
5ca2a9a1
PH
3121PH/30 In these circumstances:
3122 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3123 . First host does not offer TLS;
3124 . First host accepts first address;
3125 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3126 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3127 . Second host accepts second address.
3128 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3129 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3130 address.
7e8bec7a 3131
c688b954
PH
3132PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3133 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3134 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3135 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3136 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3137
fed77020
PH
3138PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3139 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3140
7fe1560f
PH
3141PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3142 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3143
ebb6e6d5
PH
3144PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3145 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3146 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3147
9c4e8f60
PH
3148PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3149 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3150 overlooked.
3151
3152PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3153
d7174846
PH
3154PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3155 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3156 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3157 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3158 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3159 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3160 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3161
3162 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3163 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3164 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3165 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3166 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3167
3168 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3169 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3170 routed further.
3171
cfe75fc3
PH
3172PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3173 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3174 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3175 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3176 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3177 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3178
be22d70e
PH
3179PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3180
0612b098
PH
3181PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3182 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3183 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3184 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3185 printable escape sequences.
3186
2e0c1448
PH
3187PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3188 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3189 body only.
3190
447d236c
PH
3191PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3192 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3193 are as follows:
3194
3195 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3196 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3197 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3198 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3199 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3200
3201 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3202 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3203 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3204
d20976dc
PH
3205PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3206
f656d135
PH
3207PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3208 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3209 play with."
3210
2e2a30b4
PH
3211PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3212 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3213 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3214 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3215 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3216 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3217 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3218 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3219 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3220 the log output.
3221
9176e9f0
PH
3222PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3223 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3224 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3225 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3226 "make".
3227
7982096b 3228
bbe902f0
PH
3229A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3230----------------------------------------
3231
3232Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3233changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3234needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3235in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3236that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3237release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3238from 4.43.
3239
3240I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
32414.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3242those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3243historical information.
3244
3245
f7b63901 3246Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3247-----------------
3248
5fe762f6
PH
3249 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3250
139059f6 3251 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3252 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3253
7086e875
PH
3254 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3255 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3256 place.
3257
35af9f61
PH
3258 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3259 filter fails to execute.
3260
b668c215
PH
3261 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3262 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3263 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3264 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3265 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3266
a494b1e1
PH
3267 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3268
3269 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3270 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3271 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3272 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3273
c5fcb476
PH
3274 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3275 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3276 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3277 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3278 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3279
69358f02
PH
3280 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3281
5be20824
PH
328210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3283
eb2c0248
PH
328411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3285 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3286 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3287 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3288
2a3eea10
PH
328912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3290 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3291 sender verification.
3292
329313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3294 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3295
23c7ff99
PH
329614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3297
4deaf07d
PH
329815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3299 connection timeout.
3300
926e1192
PH
330116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3302 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3303
650edc6f
PH
330417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3305 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3306
2c7db3f5
PH
330718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3308 information about exactly what failed.
3309
3d235903
PH
331019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3311
7c7ad977
PH
331220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3313 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3314 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3315
981756db
PH
331621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3317 It is now set to "smtps".
3318
d4eb88df
PH
331922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3320 ignore_target_hosts.
3321
332223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3323 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3324 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3325 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3326 "[x.x.x.x]".
3327
7d468ab8
PH
332824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3329 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3330 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3331
333225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3333 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3334 wake it up if nothing else does.
3335
62c0818f
PH
333626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3337 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3338 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3339 end up negative.
3340
26034054
PH
334127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3342 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3343
af66f652
PH
334428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3345
90af77f4
PH
334629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3347 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3348 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3349 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3350 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3351 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3352 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3353 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3354
d8ef3577
PH
335530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3356 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3357 than one IP address.
3358
5cb8cbc6
PH
335931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3360 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3361 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3362 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3363
14702f5b
PH
336432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3365 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3366 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3367 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3368 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3369 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3370
063b1e99
PH
337133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3372 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3373 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3374 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3375
652e1b65
PH
337634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3377 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3378 respected.
3379
6f0c9a4f
PH
338035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3381 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3382 $sender_host_address.
3383
33397d19
PH
338436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3385 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3386 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3387 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3388 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3389 very small.
3390
7bb56e1f
PH
339137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3392
3393 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3394 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3395
ea3bc19b
PH
3396 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3397 just the host names, not the priorities.
3398
3399 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3400 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3401 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3402
ea3bc19b 3403 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3404 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3405
0bcb2a0e
PH
340638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3407 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3408 domain.
3409
2ac0e484
PH
341039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3411
4e1fde53
PH
341240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3413 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3414
de365ded
PH
341541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3416 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3417 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3418
f05da2e8
PH
341942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3420
d6453af2
PH
342143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3422
f7b63901
PH
342344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3424
342545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3426 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3427 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3428 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3429 because the tests only now provoked it.
3430
a444213a
PH
343146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3432 (this can affect the format of dates).
3433
0ec020ea
PH
343447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3435 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3436 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3437 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3438
b1206957
PH
343948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3440
344149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3442 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3443 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3444 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3445
26dd5a95
PH
344650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3447 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3448 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3449
343b2385
PH
345051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3451 autoreply.
3452
1c5466b9
PH
345352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3454 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3455 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3456 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3457 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3458 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3459 is going on).
3460
55ee9ee3
PH
346153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3462 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3463 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3464 the line.
3465
d38f8232
PH
346654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3467 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3468 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3469
3470 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3471 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3472 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3473 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3474 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3475 so I produce this patch..."
3476
3295e65b
PH
3477 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3478 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3479 is not defined.
3480
7102e136
PH
348155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3482 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3483 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3484 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3485 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3486
3ca0ba97
PH
348756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3488
c2bcbe20
PH
348957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3490 long debug lines gets shown.
3491
18ce445d
PH
349258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3493 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3494
1f5b4c3d
PH
349559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3496
3497 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3498 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3499 of $primary_hostname.
3500
b975ba52
PH
350160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3502 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3503 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3504 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3505 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3506 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3507 by change 4.50/55 above.
3508
3509 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3510 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3511 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3512 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3513 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3514 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3515 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3516
351761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3518 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3519 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3520 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3521
17ffcae7
PH
352262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3523 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3524
d95f9fdb
PH
352563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3526 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3527 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3528 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3529 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3530
86b8287f
PH
353164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3532 This has been fixed.
3533
60dc5e56
PH
353465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3535 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3536 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3537 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3538 the caching.)
3539
533244af
PH
354066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3541
a5a28604
PH
354267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3543 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3544 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3545 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3546
7e634d24
PH
354768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3548 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3549
3e11c26b
PH
355069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3551 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3552 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3553
6729cf78
PH
355470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3555 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3556 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3557 message there.
3558
00f00ca5
PH
355971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3560 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3561 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3562
c9bdd01c
PH
356372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3564 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3565 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3566 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3567
d43194df
PH
356873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3569 during host lookups.
3570
fe5b5d0b
PH
357174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3572 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3573
3574 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3575
76a2d7ba
PH
357675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3577 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3578 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3579 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3580 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3581 background.
3582
358376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3584 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3585
04f7d5b9
PH
358677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3587 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3588 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3589
bc60667e
PH
359078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3591
bb6e88ff
PH
359279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3593 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3594 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3595 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3596 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3597 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3598 process earlier.
3599
1e70f85b
PH
360080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3601 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3602 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3603 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3604 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3605
360681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3607 tables).
3608
4e01f9d6
PH
360982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3610
1ee1cef2
PH
361183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3612 "vacation" handling.
3613
6e2b4ccc
PH
361484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3615 OS variants using glibc.
3616
8e669ac1
PH
361785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3618
495ae4b0 3619
bbe902f0
PH
3620----------------------------------------------------
3621See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3622----------------------------------------------------
3623
3624
3625Exim version 4.44
3626-----------------
3627
3628 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3629 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3630 transport
3631
3632 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3633 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3634 place.
3635
3636 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3637 filter fails to execute.
3638
3639 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3640 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3641 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3642 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3643 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3644
3645 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3646 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3647 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3648 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3649
3650 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3651 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3652 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3653 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3654 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3655
3656 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3657
3658 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3659 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3660 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3661 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3662
3663 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3664 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3665 sender verification.
3666
366710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3668 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3669
367011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3671 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3672
367312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3674 ignore_target_hosts.
3675
367613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3677 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3678 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3679 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3680 "[x.x.x.x]".
3681
368214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3683 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3684 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3685
368615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3687 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3688 wake it up if nothing else does.
3689
369016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3691 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3692 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3693 end up negative.
3694
369517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3696 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3697
ea3a6f44 369818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3699
370019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3701 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3702 empty pattern.
3703
370420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3705 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3706 one IP address.
3707
ea3a6f44
NM
370821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3709 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3710 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3711 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3712 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3713 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3714
ea3a6f44
NM
371522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3716 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3717 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3718
371923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3720 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3721 $sender_host_address.
3722
372324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3724
ea3a6f44
NM
372525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3726 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3727 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3728
372926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3730 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3731
ea3a6f44
NM
373227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3733 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3734
ea3a6f44
NM
373528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3736 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3737 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3738 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3739
374029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3741 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3742 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3743
ea3a6f44
NM
374430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3745 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3746 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3747 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3748
ea3a6f44
NM
374931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3750 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3751 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3752
ea3a6f44
NM
375331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3754 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3755
ea3a6f44
NM
375632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3757 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3758 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3759 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3760 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3761 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3762 is going on).
bbe902f0 3763
ea3a6f44
NM
376433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3765 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3766 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3767 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3768 CAN-2005-0021
3769
ea3a6f44
NM
377034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3771 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3772 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3773 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3774 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3775 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3776 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3777
3778 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3779 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3780 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3781 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3782 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3783 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3784 CAN-2005-0021
3785
ea3a6f44
NM
378635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3787 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3788 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3789 CAN-2005-0022
3790
ea3a6f44
NM
379136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3792 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3793 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3794 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3795 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3796
ea3a6f44
NM
379737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3798 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3799 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3800 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3801 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3802
ea3a6f44
NM
380338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3804 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3805 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3806 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3807 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3808
3809
495ae4b0
PH
3810Exim version 4.43
3811-----------------
3812
3813 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3814 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3815 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3816 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3817 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3818 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3819 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3820
3821 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3822 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3823 the delivery.
3824
3825 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3826
3827 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3828
3829 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3830 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3831 to local_scan().
3832
3833 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3834 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3835 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3836 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3837 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3838
3839 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3840 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3841
3842 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3843
3844 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3845
384610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3847 header_sender only.
3848
384911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3850 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3851
385212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3853 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3854 affecting debugging statements).
3855
385613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3857
385814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3859 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3860 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3861 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3862 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3863 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3864 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3865 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3866 after the received time, and all would be well.
3867
386815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3869 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3870 condition in an expansion string.
3871
387216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3873
387417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3875 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3876 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3877 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3878 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3879 job under whatever limits there are.
3880
388118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3882
388319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3884 space).
3885
388620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3887 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3888 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3889 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3890 return path is set.
3891
389221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3893 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3894 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3895 binary data in such strings.
3896
389722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3898
389923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3900 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3901 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3902 failure, which is pointless.
3903
390424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3905
390625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3907
390826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3909 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3910 Sender: header lines.
3911
391227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3913 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3914 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3915
391628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3917 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3918 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3919 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3920 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3921 happens.
3922
392329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3924 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3925 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3926 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3927 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3928
392930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3930 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3931 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3932 1024.
3933
393431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3935 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3936
393732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3938 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3939
394033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3941
394232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3943
394433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3945
394634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3947 syntax error.
3948
394935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3950
395136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3952
395337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3954 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3955 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3956 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3957
395838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3959 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3960
3961
3962Exim version 4.42
3963-----------------
3964
3965 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3966 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3967 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3968 it was not quoted.
3969 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3970 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3971 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3972 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3973 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3974 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3975
3976 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3977 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3978 verification failure".
3979
3980 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3981 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3982 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3983 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3984
3985 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3986 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3987 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3988 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3989 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3990 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3991 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3992 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3993 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3994 treated as a timeout.
3995
3996 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3997 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3998 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3999 not set for Exim filters).
4000
4001 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4002 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4003 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4004
4005 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4006
4007 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4008 try to make them clearer.
4009
4010 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4011 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4012
4013 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4014
4015 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4016
401710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4018 only the Cygwin environment.
4019
402011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4021 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4022 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4023 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4024 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4025
402612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4027 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4028 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4029 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4030 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4031 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4032 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4033
403413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4035 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4036
403714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4038
4039 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4040 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4041 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4042
4043 To: susanne@some.where
4044
4045 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4046 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4047 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4048 of addresses in From: header lines).
4049
4050 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4051 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4052 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4053
4054 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4055 treated as non-personal.
4056
4057 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4058 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4059
406015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4061
406216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4063
406417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4065 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4066 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4067
406818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4069 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4070
407119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4072 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4073 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4074 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4075 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4076 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4077
407820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4079 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4080 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4081 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4082 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4083 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4084 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4085 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4086
4087 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4088
408921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4090 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4091
409222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4093 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4094 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4095
409623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4097 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4098
409924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4100 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4101 rather than long int.
4102
410325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4104
410526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4106
4107
4108Exim version 4.41
4109-----------------
4110
4111 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4112 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4113 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4114 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4115 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4116 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4117
4118
4119Exim version 4.40
4120-----------------
4121
4122 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4123 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4124
4125 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4126 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4127 socklen_t is defined.
4128
4129 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4130 always exist.
4131
4132 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4133 configured.
4134
4135 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4136 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4137 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4138 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4139 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4140
4141 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4142 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4143 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4144 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4145
4146 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4147 of flapping under certain conditions.
4148
4149 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4150 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4151 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4152
4153 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4154
415510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4156
415711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4158 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4159 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4160 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4161
416212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4163 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4164 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4165 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4166 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4167 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4168 preserved with the message after it was received.
4169
417013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4171 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4172 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4173 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4174 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4175 test suite worked just fine.
4176
417714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4178 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4179 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4180
418115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4182 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4183 string.
4184
418516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4186 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4187 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4188 does not fully solve it.
4189
419017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4191 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4192 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4193 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4194 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4195
419618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4197 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4198 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4199
420019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4201 string, for example:
4202
4203 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4204
4205 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4206 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4207 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4208 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4209 the routers could not see them.
4210
421120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4212 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4213
421421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4215 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4216 output).
4217
421822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4219 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4220 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4221 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4222 that needed quoting.
4223
422423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4225 was not being matched caselessly.
4226
422724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4228 backslashes.
4229
423025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4231 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4232 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4233 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4234 when use_sender is false.
4235
423626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4237
423827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4239
424028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4241
424229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4243 the configuration file.
4244
424530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4246 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4247
424831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4249
425032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4251 bytes in the message body.
4252
425333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4254 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4255 delivery.
4256
425734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4258
425935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4260
426136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4262 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4263 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4264 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4265 another IP address.
4266
4267
4268Exim version 4.34
4269-----------------
4270
4271 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4272 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4273
4274 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4275 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4276 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4277 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4278 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4279
4280 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4281 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4282
4283 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4284 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4285 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4286
4287 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4288 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4289 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4290
4291 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4292 for routers.
4293
4294 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4295 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4296 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4297 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4298 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4299 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4300 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4301
4302
4303Exim version 4.33
4304-----------------
4305
4306 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4307 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4308 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4309 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4310 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4311 default (and expected) setting.
4312
4313 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4314 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4315 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4316 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4317
4318 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4319 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4320
4321 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4322 in domain lists.
4323
4324 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4325 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4326 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4327 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4328 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4329 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4330
4331 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4332 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4333 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4334
4335 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4336 part (NOT match_host).
4337
4338 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4339
4340 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4341 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4342 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4343 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4344 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4345 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4346 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4347 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4348 the same named file.
4349
435010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4351 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4352 when Exim is built.
4353
435411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4355 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4356 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4357 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4358 a host name.
4359
436012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4361 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4362 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4363
436413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4365
436614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4367
436815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4369
437016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4371 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4372
437317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4374 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4375 before starting the TLS session.
4376
437718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4378
437919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4380 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4381
438220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4383 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4384 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4385 colon in the middle).
4386
4387
4388Exim version 4.32
4389-----------------
4390
4391 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4392 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4393 multiple configurations are in use.
4394
4395 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4396 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4397 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4398 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4399 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4400 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4401
4402 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4403 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4404
4405 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4406 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4407 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4408
4409 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4410 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4411 occurs.
4412
4413 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4414 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4415
4416 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4417
4418 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4419 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4420
4421 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4422
4423 -prval:sval
4424
4425 is equivalent to
4426
4427 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4428
4429 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4430 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4431 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4432 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4433 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4434
443510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4436 Exim's behaviour:
4437
4438 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4439 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4440 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4441 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4442 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4443 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4444
4445 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4446 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4447 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4448 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4449 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4450 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4451 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4452 string.
4453
4454 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4455 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4456 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4457 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4458 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4459
446011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4461
446212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4463 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4464 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4465
446613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4467
446814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4469 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4470 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4471 information.
4472
447315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4474 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4475
447616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4477 Three changes have been made:
4478
4479 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4480 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4481 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4482 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4483 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4484
4485 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4486 been restored.
4487
4488 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4489 the modified behaviour.
4490
4491
4492Exim version 4.31
4493-----------------
4494
4495 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4496 Larry Rosenman.
4497
4498 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4499 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4500
4501 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4502 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4503 try to track down a specific problem.
4504
4505 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4506 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4507 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4508
4509 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4510 warning.
4511
4512 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4513 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4514 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4515 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4516 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4517 some earlier ones do not.
4518
4519 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4520
4521 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4522 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4523 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4524 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4525 address literals are enabled, of course).
4526
4527 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4528
452910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4530 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4531 by a command such as
4532
4533 exim -f "" ...
4534
4535 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4536
453711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4538
453912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4540 remained set. It is now erased.
4541
454213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4543 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4544
454514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4546 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4547 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4548 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4549 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4550 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4551 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4552 appropriate error code.
4553
455415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4555 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4556 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4557 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4558 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4559 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4560
456116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4562 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4563 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4564
456517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4566 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4567 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4568 terminate the header.
4569
457018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4571 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4572 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4573
457419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4575 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4576 (4.30/29). In particular:
4577
4578 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4579 imposed.
4580
4581 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4582 to write a maildirsize file.
4583
4584 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4585 the transport, the new value overrides.
4586
4587 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4588 count.
4589
459020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4591 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4592 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4593 space or a tab.
4594
459521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4596 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4597 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4598 the fallback hosts.
4599
460022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4601 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4602 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4603
460423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4605 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4606 using a union.
4607
460824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4609 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4610 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4611
461225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4613
461426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4615
461627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4617
461828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4619 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4620 become corrupted.
4621
462229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4623 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4624 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4625 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4626 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4627 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4628 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4629 too great.
4630
463130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4632 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4633 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4634 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4635 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4636 incorrectly.
4637
463831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4639 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4640 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4641 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4642 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4643 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4644 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4645 cached value only when the same options are set.
4646
464732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4648
464933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4650 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4651 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4652 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4653 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4654
465534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4656 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4657 it is clearly obsolete.
4658
465935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4660 transport.
4661
466236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4663 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4664 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4665 times.
4666
466737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4668 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4669 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4670 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4671 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4672
467338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4674 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4675 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4676 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4677
467839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4679
4680 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4681
4682 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4683 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4684 2^31.
4685
468640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4687 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4688 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4689 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4690 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4691 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4692 $localpart_data.
4693
469441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4695 with the -f command-line option.
4696
469742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4698 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4699 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4700 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4701 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4702 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4703
470443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4705 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4706 line.
4707
470844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4709 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4710 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4711 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4712 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4713 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4714 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4715 buffer is too small.
4716
471745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4718 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4719
472046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4721 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4722 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4723 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4724 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4725 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4726 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4727 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4728 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4729
473047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4731 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4732 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4733
473448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4735 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4736 ACL").
4737
473849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4739 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4740 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4741 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4742 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4743
474450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4745 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4746 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4747 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4748 is set.
4749
475051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4751
475252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4753
475453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4755 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4756
475754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4758 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4759 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4760
476155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4762 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4763 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4764 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4765 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4766
476756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4768 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4769 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4770 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4771 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4772 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4773 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4774
477557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4776 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4777 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4778 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4779 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4780 the test of how many are available.
4781
478258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4783 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4784 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4785 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4786 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4787 new message is started.
4788
478959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4790 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4791
479260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4793 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4794
479561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4796 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4797 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4798 is no long logged.
4799
480062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4801 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4802 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4803 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4804 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4805 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4806 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4807
480863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4809 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4810 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4811 interpreted as octal.
4812
481364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4814 setting.
4815
481665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4817 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4818 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4819 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4820 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4821 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4822
482366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4824 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4825 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4826 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4827
4828 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4829 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4830 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4831 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4832
4833 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4834 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4835 is a bug fix.
4836
4837 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4838 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4839
484067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4841
484268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4843 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4844 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4845 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4846
484769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4848 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4849 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4850 supplied", which is not helpful.
4851
485270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4853 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4854 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4855
485671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4857 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4858 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4859 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4860 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4861 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4862 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4863 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4864
486572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4866 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4867 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4868 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4869 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4870
487173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4872 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4873 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4874 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4875 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4876 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4877
487874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4879 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4880 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4881
488275. Added write_rejectlog option.
4883
488476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4885 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4886 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4887 variables.
4888
488977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4890
489178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4892 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4893 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4894 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4895 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4896 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4897 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4898 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4899
490079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4901 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4902 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4903 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4904 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4905
490680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4907 Haardt.
4908
490981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4910 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4911 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4912 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4913 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4914 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4915 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4916 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4917 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4918
4919
4920Exim version 4.30
4921-----------------
4922
4923 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4924 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4925 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4926
4927 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4928 fixed.
4929
4930 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4931 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4932 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4933
4934 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4935 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4936 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4937 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4938 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4939 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4940
4941 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4942 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4943 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4944 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4945 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4946 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4947 the Exim test suite.
4948
4949 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4950 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4951 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4952 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4953
4954 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4955 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4956 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4957 specify it in this variable.
4958
4959 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4960 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4961 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4962 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4963
4964 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4965 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4966 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4967 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4968
4969 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4970 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4971 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4972 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4973 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4974
4975 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4976
497710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4978 they are logged.
4979
498011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4981 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4982 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4983 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4984 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4985
498612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4987 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4988
498913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4990 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4991 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4992 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4993 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4994
499514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4996 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4997
499815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4999 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5000 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5001
500216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5003 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5004
500517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5006 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5007
500818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5009 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5010 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5011
501219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5013 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5014
501520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5016 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5017 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5018 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5019
502021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5021
502222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5023 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5024 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5025 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5026
502723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5028
502924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5030 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5031
503225. Added .include_if_exists.
5033
503426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5035 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5036 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5037 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5038 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5039 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5040
504127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5042
504328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5044 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5045 this.
5046
504729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5048
504930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5050 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5051
5052 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5053 550 Sender verify failed
5054
5055 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5056 the final line of the response.
5057
505831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5059 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5060 all other user lookups.
5061
506232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5063 delivery time.
5064
506533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5066 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5067 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5068 result into an int without checking.
5069
507034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5071 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5072 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5073
507435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5075 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5076 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5077 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5078
507936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5080 correctly.
5081
508237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5083 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5084
508538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5086 to the empty sender.
5087
508839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5089 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5090 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5091 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5092 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5093 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5094 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5095 panic log.
5096
509740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5098 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5099 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5100 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5101 used.
5102
510341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5104 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5105
510642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5107 timestamps.
5108
510943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5110 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5111
511244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5113
511445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5115 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5116 logs.
5117
511846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5119 as soon as it is encountered.
5120
512147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5122
512348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5124 rewritten to "<>".
5125
512649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5127 recognizes a tab character.
5128
512950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5130 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5131 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5132 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5133
513451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5135
513652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5137 crash.
5138
513953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5140
514154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5142
514355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5144 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5145 2822.
5146
514756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5148 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5149 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5150 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5151 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5152
515357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5154 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5155
515658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5157 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5158 list (.included file names were always shown).
5159
516059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5161 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5162 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5163 root at that time.
5164
516560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5166 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5167
516861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5169
517062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5171
517263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5173
517464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5175 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5176 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5177 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5178 failures to open the logs.
5179
518065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5181 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5182 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5183 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5184 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5185 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5186 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5187
5188
5189Exim version 4.24
5190-----------------
5191
5192 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5193 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5194 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5195 change 4.23/1.
5196
5197 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5198 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5199 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5200
5201 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5202 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5203 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5204
5205 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5206 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5207 causing some misleading effects.
5208
5209 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5210 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5211 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5212
5213 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5214 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5215 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5216 queue-runner function directly.
5217
5218
5219Exim version 4.23
5220-----------------
5221
5222 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5223 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5224
5225 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5226 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5227 was always written to the default place.
5228
5229 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5230 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5231 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5232
5233 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5234
5235 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5236
5237 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5238 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5239 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5240
5241 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5242 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5243 must start.
5244
5245 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5246 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5247 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5248
5249 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5250 command line option is disabled.
5251
5252 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5253 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5254
5255 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5256
5257 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5258
5259 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5260 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5261
526210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5263
526411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5265 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5266 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5267 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5268 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5269 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5270
527112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5272 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5273 timeout.
5274
527513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5276 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5277
527814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5279 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5280
528115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5282 received was valid base64.
5283
528416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5285 name of the variable that was being set.
5286
528717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5288
528918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5290 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5291 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5292 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5293 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5294 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5295
529619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5297
529820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5299 nor realm was specified.
5300
530121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5302 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5303 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5304 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5305
530622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5307 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5308 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5309
531023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5311 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5312 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5313
531424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5315 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5316 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5317 some systems use these upper case variants.
5318
531925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5320 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5321 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5322 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5323
532426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5325
532627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5327 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5328
532928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5330 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5331 expansion variable.
5332
533329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5334
533530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5336 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5337 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5338 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5339
534031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5341 using it.
5342
534332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5344 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5345 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5346
534733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5348 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5349
535034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5351 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5352 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5353 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5354
535535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5356 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5357 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5358
535936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5360
536137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5362 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5363 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5364 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5365 aborted.
5366
536738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5368 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5369 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5370
537139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5372
537340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5374 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5375
537641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5377 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5378
537942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5380 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5381 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5382 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5383 when emails are that large.
5384
5385
5386
5387Exim version 4.22
5388-----------------
5389
5390 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5391 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5392
5393 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5394 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5395 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5396
5397 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5398 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5399 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5400
5401 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5402 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5403 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5404 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5405 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5406
5407 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5408 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5409 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5410 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5411 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5412 ever.
5413
5414 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5415 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5416 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5417 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5418 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5419 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5420 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5421 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5422 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5423 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5424 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5425 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5426 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5427 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5428
5429 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5430 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5431 parameterised it.
5432
5433 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5434 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5435 error should be diagnosed.
5436
5437 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5438 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5439 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5440 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5441 appeared instead of "NULL".
5442
544310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5444 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5445 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5446 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5447 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5448 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5449 proceeds).
5450
5451 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5452 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5453 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5454
5455
5456Exim version 4.21
5457-----------------
5458
5459 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5460 or receiver verification errors.
5461
5462 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5463 name.
5464
5465 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5466 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5467 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5468 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5469
5470 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5471 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5472 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5473 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5474 shouldn't happen again.
5475
5476 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5477 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5478 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5479
5480 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5481 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5482
5483 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5484
5485 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5486 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5487
5488 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5489 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5490 RFC.
5491
549210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5493 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5494 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5495
549611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5497 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5498 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5499 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5500
550112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5502 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5503 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5504 to define what should happen).
5505
550613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5507 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5508 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5509
551014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5511
551215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5513
551416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5515 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5516
551717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5518 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5519 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5520 structure in all cases.
5521
5522 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5523 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5524 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5525 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5526
552718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5528 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5529 domain name.
5530
553119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5532 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5533
553420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5535 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5536
553721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5538 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5539 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5540
554122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5542 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5543 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5544
554523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5546 the book and for uniformity.
5547
554824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5549
555025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5551 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5552 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5553 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5554 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5555 non-existent command as the problem.
5556
555726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5558 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5559 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5560
556127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5562
556328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5564 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5565 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5566
556729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5568 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5569 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5570 timestamps using strftime().
5571
557230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5573 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5574
557532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5576 transport-time rewrites.
5577
557833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5579 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5580 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5581 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5582
558334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5584 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5585
558635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5587 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5588 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5589 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5590 comma and a space.
5591
559236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5593 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5594 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5595 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5596 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5597 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5598 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5599
560037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5601 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5602 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5603 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5604 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5605
560638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5607 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5608 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5609 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5610 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5611 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5612 remaining text gets split now.
5613
561439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5615 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5616 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5617 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5618
561940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5620 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5621 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5622 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5623 $return_path.
5624
562541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5626 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5627 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5628 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5629 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5630 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5631 passed through if needed.
5632
563342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5634 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5635 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5636 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5637 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5638 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5639
564043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5641 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5642 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5643 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5644 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5645
564644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5647 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5648 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5649 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5650 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5651
565245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5653 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5654 noticed.
5655
565646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5657 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5658 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5659 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5660 mayhem of various kinds.
5661
566247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5663 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5664 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5665 the right test for positive values.
5666
566748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5668 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5669 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5670 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5671 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5672 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5673 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5674 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5675 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5676 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5677 envelope.
5678
567949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5680 module.
5681
568250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5683 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5684 forbidding it.
5685
568651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5687 the existing equality matching.
5688
568952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5690 dealing with inode numbers.
5691
569253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5693 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5694 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5695
569654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5697 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5698 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5699 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5700 local_scan().
5701
570255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5703 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5704 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5705 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5706 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5707 relay addresses has also been removed.
5708
570956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5710
571157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5712 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5713 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5714
571558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5716 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5717 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5718 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5719 processing applies to CR:
5720
5721 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5722 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5723
5724 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5725 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5726 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5727 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5728
572959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5730 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5731 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5732
573360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5734 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5735 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5736 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5737 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5738 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5739 arisen.
5740
574161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5742 program routers.
5743
574462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5745 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5746 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5747 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5748 adds:
5749
5750 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5751
5752 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5753
5754 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5755
575663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5757 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5758 not considered personal.
5759
576064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5761
576265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5763
576466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5765
576667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5767 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5768 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5769 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5770 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5771 header lines, and spool format errors.
5772
577368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5774 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5775 for more flexibility.
5776
577769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5778 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5779 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5780
578170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5782 Sabourenkov.
5783
578471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5785 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5786 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5787 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5788 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5789 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5790 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5791 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5792 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5793
579472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5795 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5796 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5797 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5798 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5799 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5800 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5801
580273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5803 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5804 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5805
580674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5807 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5808 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5809 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5810 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5811 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5812 instead of killing the process with assert().
5813
581475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5815 than Unicode encoding.
5816
581776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5818 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5819 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5820 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5821
582277. Added process_log_path.
5823
582478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5825 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5826
582779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5828 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5829
583080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5831 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5832 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5833
583481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5835 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5836 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5837 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5838 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5839 were applied:
5840
5841 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5842 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5843 as invalid.
5844
584582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5846 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5847 they will be used during message reception.
5848
5849
5850Exim version 4.20
5851-----------------
5852
5853The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5854
5855****