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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.92
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11Exim version 4.91
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c39c8870 14GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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15 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
16 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
17 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
18 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
19 be defined in redis_servers.
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21GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
22 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
23
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24JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
25 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
26 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
27 extant use locations.
28
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29JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
30 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
31
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32JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
33 Previously only the last row was returned.
34
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35JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
36 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
37 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
38 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
39 input.
40
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41JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
42 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
43 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
44 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
45 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
46 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
47 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
48 Main pool for expansions.
49 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
50 active in the testsuite.
51 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
52
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53JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
54 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
55 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
56 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
57 round-robin DNS.
58
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59JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
60 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
61 failure response.
62
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63JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
64 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
65 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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67JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
68 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
69 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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71JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
72 rows affected is given instead).
73
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74JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
75 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
76
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77JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
78 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
79 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
80 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
81 for all multi-message initiating connections.
82
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83JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
84 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
85 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
86
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87JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
88 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
89 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
90 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
91 separate.
92
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93JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
94 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
95 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
96 fake-reject.
97
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98HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
99
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100JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
101 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
102
aab9a843 103PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 104 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 105 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 106
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107JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
108 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
109 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
110 and send a quit.
111
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112JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
113 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
114
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115JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
116 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
117 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
118
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119JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
120 for the build is renamed.
121
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122JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
123 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
124 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
125
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126JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
127 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
128 result replacing the original.
129
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130JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
131 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
132 and the resources needed to be freed.
133
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134JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
135
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136JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
137 was not propagated.
138
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139JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
140 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
141 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
142 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
143
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144JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
145 length value. Previously this would segfault.
146
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147HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
148 newer versions of the scanner.
149
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150JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
151 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
152 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
153 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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154 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
155 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
156 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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158JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
159 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
160 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
161 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
162 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
163 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
164 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
165 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
166 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
167 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
168
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169JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
170 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
171
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172JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
173
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174HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
175 allows proper process termination in container environments.
176
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177JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
178 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
179
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180JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
181 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
182 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
183
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184JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
185 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
186 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 187 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 188
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189JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
190 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
191 would be spooled.
192
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193PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
194 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
195
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196HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
197 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
198 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
199 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
200 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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202JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
203 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
204 lines.
205
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206JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
207 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
208
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209PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
210 suffix list.
211
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212JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
213 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
214 "bare" representation.
215
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216JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
217 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
218 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
219 corrupted the output.
220
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225JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
226 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
227 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
228 pairs of long lines into single ones.
229
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230PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
231 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
232
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233JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
234 This permits better logging.
235
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236JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
237 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
238 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
239 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
240 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 241 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 242
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243JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
244 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
245 "exiwhat" output.
246
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247PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
248 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
249 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
250
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251JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
252 than 255 are no longer allowed.
253
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254JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
255 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
256 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
257 client, there is no benefit for these.
258 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
259 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
260 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
261 is used (3.2.4 +).
262
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263PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
264 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
265
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266JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
267 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
268 erroneously found still-pending ones.
269
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270JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
271 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
272
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273JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
274 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
275 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
276 signature and again for transmission.
277
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278JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
279 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 280 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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282JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
283 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
284 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
285 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
286 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
287 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
288 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
289
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290JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
291 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
292 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 293 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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295PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
296 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
297 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
298 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
299 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
300 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
301 processing options.
302
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303JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
304 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
305 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
306 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
307 connections.
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309PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
310 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
311 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
312 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
313 versions.
314
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315JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
316 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
317 inaccessible.
318
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319JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
320 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
321 banner-time rejection.
322
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323JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
324 callout/hold.
325
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326PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
327 is the name of a transport.
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328 Fixes bug 2140.
329
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330HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
331
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332JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
333 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
334
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335JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
336 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
337 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
338 during compilation.
339
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340JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
341 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
342 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 343 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 344
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345JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
346 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
347 initial verify call returned a defer.
348
ad1a76fe 349JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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350 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
351
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352JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
353 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
354
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355JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
356 if present. Previously it was ignored.
357
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358JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
359 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
360
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361JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
362 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
363 extensible.
364
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365PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
366 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
367
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368PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
369 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
370 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
371
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372JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
373 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
374 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
375 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
376
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377HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
378 and confused the parent.
379
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380JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
381 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
382
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383JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
384 for log purposes.
385
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386JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
387 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
388 out-of-order delivery.
389
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390JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
391 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
392 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
393 error for the HELO.
394
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395JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
396 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
397 desynchronisation.
398
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399JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
400 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
401 one run was done. Bug 2189.
402
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403JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
404 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
405 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
406 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
407 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
408 message is still "Temporary local problem".
409
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410JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
411 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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412 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
413
414HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
415 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
416 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 417
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418JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
419 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
420 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
421 though a different problem.
422
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9427e879 427JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 428 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 429
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430JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
431
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432PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
433 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
434
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435JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
436 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
437
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438JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
439 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
440 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
441 before acknowledging the chunk.
442
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443PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
444 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
445 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
446
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447JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
448 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
449 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
450 should.
451
452JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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453 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
454 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 456JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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457 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
458
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459JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
460 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
461 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
462 body hash calculated value.
463
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464JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
465 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
466 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
467
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468JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
469
470JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
471 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
472
473JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
474 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
475 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
476
477JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
478 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
479 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
480 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
481 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
482 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
483
484JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
485 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
486 past that check, despite the cost.
487
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488JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
489 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
490 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
491
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492PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
493 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
494 TLS library to consume.
495
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496PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
497
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498PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
499
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500JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
501 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
502 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
503 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
504 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
505 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
506 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
507
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508PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
509
510PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
511
512PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
513 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
514 should be warning-free.
515
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516JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
517
518HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
519 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
520
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521HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
522 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
523 general solution here.
524
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525PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
526 already-broken messages in the queue.
527
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528JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
529
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530JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
531
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533Exim version 4.88
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536JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
537 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 538
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539JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
540 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
541 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
542
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543JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
544 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
545 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
546 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
547 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
548 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
549 if one fails this test.
550 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
551 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
552
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553JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
554 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
555
23bb6982 556JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 557 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 558
0bd1b1ed 559JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 560 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 561
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562JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
563 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
564
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565JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
566 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
567
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568JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
569
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570JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
571 certificate).
572
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573JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
574 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
575 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
576 connection after a verify cache hit.
577 Do not update it with the verify result either.
578
579JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
580 when routing results in more than one destination address.
581
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582JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
583 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
584 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
585 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
586 when the cutthrough connection is made).
587
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588JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
589 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
590
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591JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
592 Previously they were not counted.
593
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594JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
595 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
596 that needed the lookup.
597
4c04137d 598JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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599 distinguished as "(=".
600
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601JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
602 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
603
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604JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
605
606JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
607 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 608
4c04137d 609JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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610 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
611
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612JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
613 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
614 compatible.
615
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616JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
617 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
618 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
619 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
620
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621JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
622
f59aaaaa 623JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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624 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
625 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 626
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627JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
628 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
629 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
630 be lost.
631
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632JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
633 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
634 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
635 itself :(
636
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637JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
638 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
639 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
640
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641JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
642 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
643 options.
644
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645JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
646
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647PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
648 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
649
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650PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
651 are not in the system include path.
652
ad7fc6eb 653JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 654 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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655 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
656 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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658JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
659 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
660 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
661
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662JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
663
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664HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
665 an incoming connection.
666
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667HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
668 to rspamd.
669
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670HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
671 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 672
87cb4a16 673JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 674 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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675
676
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680JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
681 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
682 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
683 client dropping the TLS connection.
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685TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
686 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
687
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688TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
689 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
690 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
691 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
692 outgoing I= field.
693
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694JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
695 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
696 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
697 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
698 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
699 check on the next write.
700
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701HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
702 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
703 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
704 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
705 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
706
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707JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
708 mime_regex ACL conditions.
709
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710JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
711 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
712 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
713
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714JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
715 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
716 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
717 an authenticate fail is not an error.
718
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719HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
720 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
721
4c04137d 722JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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723 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
724
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725JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
726 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
727 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
728 distinct.
729
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730JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
731
732JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
733
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734JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
735
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736JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
737 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
738
98b98887 739JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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740 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
741
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742JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
743
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744JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
745 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
746
747JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
748
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749JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
750 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
751
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752JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
753
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754JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
755 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 756 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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757 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
758 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
759 they will retry in-clear.
760 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
761 at installation time.
762
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763HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
764 with the $config_file variable.
765
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766JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
767 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
768 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
769 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 770 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 771
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772GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
773 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
774 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
775 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
776 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
777
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778JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
779
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780JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
781 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
782 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
783 list order is no longer honoured.
784
4c04137d 785JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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786 for DKIM processing.
787
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788JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
789 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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791JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
792 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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793 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
794 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 795
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796JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
797 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
798
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799JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
800 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
801
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802JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
803 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
804
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805JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
806
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807JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
808 cached by the daemon.
809
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810JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
811 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
812
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813JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
814 keys are given for lookup.
815
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816JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
817 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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818 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
819 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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821JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
822 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
823 server-side so match that on older versions.
824
07c73177 825JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 826 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 827 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 828
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829JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
830 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
831
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832JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
833 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
834 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 835 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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836 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
837 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
838 initial truncated version.
839
ab9152ff 840JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 841
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842JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
843
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844JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
845 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
846
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847JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
848
bc3c7bb7 849HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 850
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851JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
852 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
853 induced overflows.
854
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855JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
856 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
857 stage.
858
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859JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
860 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
861
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862JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
863 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
864 former class.
865
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866JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
867 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
868 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
869
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870JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
871 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
872 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
873 extraction. Accept either.
874
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879JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
880 expanded.
881
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882JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
883
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884JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
885 it.
886
01a4a5c5 887JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 888 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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889 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
890 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
891
cb1d7830 892JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 893 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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894 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
895
610ff438 896JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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897 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
898 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
899 TLS connections
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901JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
902 sites use this now.
903
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904JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
905 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
906 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
907 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
908 have a dsn_lasthop option.
909
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910JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
911 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 912 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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914JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
915
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916JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
917 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
918
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919JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
920 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
921
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922JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
923 /defer_ok option.
924
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925JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
926 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
927
fd4d8871 928JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 929 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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930 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
931
932JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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933 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
934 specify a port-range.
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936JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
937 timeout value per server.
938
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939JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
940 now have the list separator specified.
941
8a512ed5 942JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 943 option values.
8a512ed5 944
82c0c8ea 945JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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947
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948JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
949
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950JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
951 rather than the verbs used.
952
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953JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
954 from 255 to 1024 chars.
955
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956JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
957
cfab9d68 958HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 959 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 960
f846c8f5
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961JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
962 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
963
fd4c285c
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964HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
965 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
966
4c04137d 967JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 968
d2a2c69b
JH
969JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
970
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971JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
972 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 973 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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974 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
975
1f12df4d
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976JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
977
1f155f8e
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978JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
979 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
980
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981JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
982 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
983
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984JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
985
474f71bf
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986JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
987
7137ca4b
JH
988JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
989
dcb1095c
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990JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
991 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
992
2f460950
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993JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
994 added for tls authenticator.
995
2f680c0c
HSHR
996HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
997
9c695f6d 998
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999Exim version 4.85
1000-----------------
4c57a40e 1001
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1002TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1003 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1004 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1005 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1006 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1007 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1008 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1009
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1010TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1011 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1012 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1013 function when detected.
1014
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1015JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1016 cause callback expansion.
1017
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1018TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1019 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1020 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1021 instead of bool when processing it.
1022
0f06b4f2 1023JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1024 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1025
be36e572
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1026JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1027
ac4ef9bd
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1028JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1029
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1030TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1031
c713ca4b
TL
1032TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1033 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1034
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1035JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1036 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1037 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1038 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1039 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1040 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1041
8bc732e8
JH
1042JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1043 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1044 exceeded it.
1045
a7fec7a7
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1046JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1047 version 3.3.6 or later.
1048
4c04137d 1049JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1050 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1051 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1052 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1053 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1054 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1055 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1056
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1057TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1058 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1059
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1060JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1061 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1062 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1063 matches.
1064
e9477a08
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1065JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1066 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1067 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1068
ad4c5ff9
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1069JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1070 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1071
1072JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1073 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1074 syntax errors.
1075
3394b36a 1076JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1077
1078JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1079 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1080
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1081TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1082 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1083 tarball.
1084
ad4c5ff9
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1085JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1086
4c04137d 1087JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1088 Bug 1561.
1089
1090JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1091 output list separator was used.
1092
8bc732e8 1093
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1094Exim version 4.84
1095-----------------
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1096TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1097 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1098 return.
1f0ebb98 1099
a612424f 1100JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1101 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1102
1103JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1104
1105TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1106 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1107
1f0ebb98 1108
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1110-----------------
1111
1112TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1113
1114 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1115 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1116 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1117 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1118 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1119 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1120
7245734e
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1121TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1122 utilities have not been installed.
1123
fd5dad68
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1124JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1125 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1126
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1127TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1128 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1129
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1130TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1131 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1132 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1133 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1134
aa26e137
JH
1135JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1136
5a1b8443
WB
1137TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1138 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1139
72c9e342
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1140PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1141 not dns_use_dnssec.
1142
76f44207
WB
1143JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1144
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MFM
1145TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1146 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1147 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1148
8ddef691 1149TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1150 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1151 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1152 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1153 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1154 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1155
b9c2e32f
AR
1156JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1157
e45a1c37
JH
1158JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1159 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1160
67d81c10
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1161JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1162 failed delivery.
1163
b1f8e4f8
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1164JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1165
511a6c14 1166JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1167
1168JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1169 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1170
51c7471d
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1171JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1172 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1173
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1174TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1175
1e06383a
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1176JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1177
76146973
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1178JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1179 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1180
1181 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1182 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1183 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1184
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1185TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1186 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1187 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1188 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1189
35aba663
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1190JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1191
8c51eead 1192JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1193 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1194 lookup).
8c51eead 1195
deae092e
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1196TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1197 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1198 Schlichting.
35aba663 1199
fd3b6a4a 1200JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1201 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1202
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1203TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1204 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1205
2b4a568d
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1206JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1207
d2af03f4
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1208TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1209 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1210 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1211
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1212JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1213 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1214
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1215JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1216 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1217 hosts_request_ocsp.
1218
ed3bba5f 1219JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1220 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1221 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1222
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1223JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1224
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1225TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1226 Christian Aistleitner.
1227
f2de3a33
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1228JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1229
6eb02f88
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1230TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1231 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1232
00bff6f6
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1233JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1234 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1235
071c51f7
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1236JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1237 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1238
a6d4c44e
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1239TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1240 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1241
3ae173e7
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1242TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1243 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1244
c13d09b8
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1245TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1246 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1247 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1248
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1249JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1250
66be95e0
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1251PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1252 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1253 Jasper Wallace.
1254
1bd0d12b
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1255JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1256
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1257TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1258 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1259 CVE-2014-2972
1260
fd3b6a4a 1261
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1264
1265PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1266
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1267PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1268 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1269
54c90be1
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1270PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1271 by GnuTLS.
1272
1f4a55da
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1273PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1274 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1275 routines.
1276
13363eba 1277PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1278
66645890 1279PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1280 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1281 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1282 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1283 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1284
a3fb9793 1285PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1286 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1287 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1288 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1289 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1290 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1291
d27f98fe 1292TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1293
6822b909
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1294TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1295
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1296TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1297 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1298
ae0e32ee 1299TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1300 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1301 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1302
1303TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1304
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1305TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1306
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1307TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1308 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1309
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1310JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1311
be4a1376
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1312JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1313
ec4b68e5
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1314PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1315
d7148a07
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1316NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1317 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1318
585121e2 1319JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1320
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1321PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1322 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1323 function.
a5f239e4 1324
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1325PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1326 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1327
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1328JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1329 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1330 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1331
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1332JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1333
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1334JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1335
ea722490 1336JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1337 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1338
b1b05573
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1339JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1340 Bugzilla 884.
1341
362145b5
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1342JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1343 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1344
3c0a92dc
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1345JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1346 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1347
6d7c6175
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1348PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1349 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1350 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1351
6f123593
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1352JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1353 authenticators.
1354
c8e2fc1e
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1355JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1356 for control.
1357
005ac57f
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1358PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1359
3f1df0e3
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1360PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1361 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1362 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1363 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1364
67bd1ab3
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1365TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1366
1367 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1368 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1369 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1370 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1371 the retry rules.
1372
1373 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1374 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1375 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1376
1377 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1378 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1379 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1380 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1381
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1382 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1383 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1384 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1385 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1386 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1387 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1388 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1389
1390 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1391 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1392
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1393TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1394
1395 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1396
1397 Resent-From: f
1398
1399 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1400 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1401 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1402 username as equal to the username.
1403
1404 This change corrects that bug.
1405
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1406GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1407 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1408 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1409
eb505532
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1410TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1411
14c7b357
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1412PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1413 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1414 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1415 NULL dereference and crash.
1416
94eaf700
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1417JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1418
6f5a440a
PP
1419PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1420 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1421 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1422
514ee161
SC
1423SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1424
fd98a5c6
JH
1425JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1426 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1427 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1428 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1429 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1430 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1431 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1432 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1433 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1434 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1435 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1436
035c7f1e
PP
1437PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1438 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1439
ff284120
PP
1440PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1441 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1442 Bugzilla 880.
1443
26e72755
PP
1444PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1445 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1446 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1447 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1448 an empty string is now equivalent.
1449
0fbd9bff
PP
1450PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1451 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1452 not performing validation itself.
1453
700d22f3
PP
1454PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1455 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1456
fcc8e047
JH
1457JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1458 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1459
4c04137d 1460TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1461
8c020188
PP
1462PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1463 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1464 other false fix of the same issue.
1465 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1466 Bugzilla 1363.
1467
d13cdd30
PP
1468PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1469 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1470
e2fbf4a2
PP
1471PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1472 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1473 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1474
f4c1088b
PP
1475PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1476 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1477 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1478
c5c2182f
PP
1479TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1480
73431ca9
JH
1481JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1482
2d07a215
TL
1483TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1484 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1485
a30a8861
TL
1486TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1487 Alexander Miroch.
1488
33382dd9
TL
1489TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1490 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1491 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1492 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1493 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1494
046172e6
TL
1495TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1496 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1497
581d7bee 1498TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1499 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1500 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1501
1502TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1503 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1504 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1505 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1506
237b2cf2
TL
1507TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1508
9fc5a352
TL
1509TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1510 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1511 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1512
b10e4ec2
TL
1513TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1514
e2cebd74
TL
1515TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1516 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1517 interaction.
1518
1519TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1520 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1521
2519e60d
TL
1522TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1523 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1524
e78e6ecf 1525
4263f395
PP
1526Exim version 4.80.1
1527-------------------
1528
1529PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1530 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1531 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1532
ea722490 1533
b1770b6e 1534Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1535-----------------
1536
1537PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1538 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1539 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1540
23c7e742
NM
1541NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1542
b322aac8
NM
1543NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1544 improved.
1545
4a891427
NM
1546NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1547
c1e794ba 1548PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1549
97753960
PP
1550PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1551
1552PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1553 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1554
df6303fa
PP
1555PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1556 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1557
7e6a8985
PP
1558PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1559 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1560
f1e05cc7 1561PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1562 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1563 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1564
4c287009
PP
1565PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1566
b98bb9ac
PP
1567PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1568 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1569
4a6a987a
PP
1570PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1571
c45dd180 1572PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1573
7db8d074
PP
1574PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1575 non-compliant senders.
1576 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1577
eae0036b 1578NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1579 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1580 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1581
dec5017e
PP
1582PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1583 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1584 in spool file corruption.
1585
c80c5570
PP
1586PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1587 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1588 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1589 "Got SSL error 2".
1590
076b11e2
PP
1591TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1592 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1593 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1594
5407bfff
JH
1595JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1596 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1597
9e45c72b
PP
1598JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1599
e74376d8
PP
1600PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1601 diagnostics.
1602 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1603
4c04137d 1604PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1605 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1606 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1607
7be682ca
PP
1608PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1609 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1610 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1611 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1612
ef840681
PP
1613PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1614 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1615
5bfb4cdf
PP
1616PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1617 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1618 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1619 resolver implementation change.
1620
c6e95d22
PP
1621PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1622 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1623
9cbad13b
PP
1624PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1625
9ee44efb
PP
1626PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1627
6a6084f8
PP
1628PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1629 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1630
12dd53c7
PP
1631PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1632 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1633
9e45c72b 1634JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1635 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1636
17c76198
PP
1637PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1638 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1639 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1640 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1641 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1642
53947857 1643PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1644
eae0036b 1645PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1646 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1647 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1648
9e45c72b 1649JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1650
7390e768
PP
1651PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1652 read-only, out of scope).
1653 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1654
08488c86
PP
1655PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1656 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1657 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1658 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1659
6475bd82
PP
1660PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1661
81f91683
PP
1662PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1663 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1664 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1665 real issues in debug logging.
1666
5779e6aa
PP
1667PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1668 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1669
3375e053
PP
1670PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1671 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1672 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1673
1674PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1675 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1676 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1677 problems.
3375e053 1678
9d26b8c0
PP
1679PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1680 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1681
57eb9e91 1682PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1683 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1684 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1685 needs to override this, it can.
1686
16880d1a
PP
1687PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1688 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1689 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1690
a799883d
PP
1691PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1692 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1693 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1694 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1695
3ecab157 1696PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1697
0599f9cf 1698
867fcbf5
PP
1699Exim version 4.77
1700-----------------
1701
1702PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1703 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1704
f1a29782
TF
1705TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1706
ab42bd23
TK
1707TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1708 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1709
0ca0cf52
TF
1710TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1711 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1712
921b12ca
TF
1713TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1714 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1715 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1716
1717 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1718 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1719 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1720 not safe for signals.
1721
1722 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1723 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1724 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1725 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1726 exiwhat.
1727
c99ce5c9
TF
1728TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1729
1730 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1731 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1732 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1733 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1734 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1735
1736 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1737 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1738 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1739 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1740 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1741 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1742
1743 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1744 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1745 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1746 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1747
1748 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1749 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1750 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1751 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1752
1753 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1754 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1755 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1756 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1757 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1758 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1759 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1760 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1761 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1762
1763 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1764 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1765 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1766 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1767
1768 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1769 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1770 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1771 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1772 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1773 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1774 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1775 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1776 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1777 details in the main documentation.
1778
3634fc25
TF
1779TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1780
792e8a19
TF
1781TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1782
5901f0ab
TF
1783TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1784 repository when doing development or release builds.
1785
7f2a2a43
PP
1786PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1787 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1788
061b7ebd
PP
1789PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1790 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1791 Bugzilla 97.
1792
e12f8c32
PP
1793PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1794
9e949f00 1795PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1796 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1797
1798PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1799 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1800
555ae6af 1801PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1802 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1803
1804PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1805 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1806
6f7fe114
PP
1807PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1808 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1809
c566dd90
PP
1810PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1811 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1812 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1813 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1814
d6cc7c78 1815PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1816 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1817 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1818
0d0e4455
PP
1819PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1820
3399bb60 1821PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1822
1823PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1824 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1825
0ca0cf52 1826
10906672
PP
1827Exim version 4.76
1828-----------------
1829
1830PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1831
754a0503
PP
1832PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1833 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1834
c0c7b2da
PP
1835PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1836
e97d1f08
PP
1837PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1838
084c1d8c
PP
1839PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1840 Bugzilla 1098.
1841
4e7ee012
PP
1842PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1843 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1844
c8d52a00
PP
1845TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1846 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1847
54e7ce4a
PP
1848PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1849 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1850
5ee6f336
PP
1851PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1852 Bugzilla 1104.
1853
c8d52a00 1854TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1855 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1856
1857TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1858 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1859 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1860 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1861
1862PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1863 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1864
10906672 1865
aa097c4c
NM
1866Exim version 4.75
1867-----------------
1868
4c04137d 1869NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1870 Bugzilla 1073
1871
7f3d9eff
TF
1872TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1873 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1874 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1875
159f52d2
TF
1876TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1877 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1878
0cc9542a
PP
1879PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1880 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1881 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1882
f7274286
PP
1883PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1884 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1885
7b797365
PP
1886PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1887 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1888
caacae52
NM
1889NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1890 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1891
09dcaba9
NM
1892NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1893 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1894
bc19a55b
PP
1895PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1896 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1897
bd4c9759
NM
1898NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1899 Fixes bug 943.
1900
b72aab72
PP
1901PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1902 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1903
2fe76745
PP
1904PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1905 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1906
76aa570c
PP
1907PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1908 SQL string expansion failure details.
1909 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1910
f1e5fef5
PP
1911PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1912 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1913
4d805ee9
PP
1914PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1915 extern declarations in function scope.
1916 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1917
cd59ab18
PP
1918PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1919 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1920 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1921 a kernel bug).
1922
332f5cf3
PP
1923PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1924 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1925
29cfeb94
PP
1926PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1927 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1928
660242ad
PP
1929PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1930 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1931
bc4bc4c5
PP
1932PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1933 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1934
2e64baa9
NM
1935NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1936 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1937 Dennis Davis.
1938
4c04137d 1939PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1940
6bac1a9a
PP
1941PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1942
552193f0
NM
1943NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1944 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1945
1b587e48
TF
1946TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1947 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1948
aa097c4c 1949
8c07b69f
TF
1950Exim version 4.74
1951-----------------
1952
1953TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1954 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1955
c0ea85ab
TF
1956TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1957 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1958
0761d44e
TF
1959TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1960
0a349494
PP
1961DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1962 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1963 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1964
1965PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1966 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1967 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1968
fea24b2e
PP
1969PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1970 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1971 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1972 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1973
6545de78
PP
1974PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1975 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1976 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1977 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1978
1670ef10
PP
1979PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1980 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1981 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1982 arbitrary files.
1983
c0886197
PP
1984PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1985 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1986
b7487bce
PP
1987PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1988 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1989 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1990 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1991 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1992
8c07b69f 1993
97fd1e48 1994Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1995-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1996
1997PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1998 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1999 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2000
6901c596
PP
2001PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2002 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2003
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2004JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2005
77bb000f
PP
2006PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2007
a29e5231
PP
2008PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2009
ec5a0394 2010PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2011
55c75993
PP
2012PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2013
453a6645 2014PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2015 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2016 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2017 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2018
8544e77a
PP
2019PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2020 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2021 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2022 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2023 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2024
83e029d5
PP
2025PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2026
ed7f7860
PP
2027PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2028
7d9f747b
PP
2029PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2030
4b2241d2
PP
2031PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2032
10385c15
PP
2033PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2034
dbc4b90d
PP
2035PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2036
532be449
PP
2037PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2038
6a8de854 2039PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2040 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2041 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2042
5dc43717
JJ
2043JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2044
2045JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2046 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2047
3346ab01
PP
2048PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2049 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2050
491fab4c
PP
2051PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2052 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2053 Notification from John Horne.
2054
13eb9497
PP
2055PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2056 compatible.
2057
2058PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2059 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2060 it normally works.
2061
7f36d675
DW
2062DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2063 access.
2064
c1d94452
DW
2065DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2066 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2067 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2068
e2f5dc15
DW
2069DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2070 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2071 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2072 configuration file.
2073
cd25e41d
DW
2074DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2075 option (effectively making it always true).
2076
261dc43e
DW
2077DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2078 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2079
fa32850b
DW
2080DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2081 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2082
79d4bc3d
PP
2083PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2084 run-time user, instead of root.
2085
43236f35 2086PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2087 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2088
fb08281f
DW
2089DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2090 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2091 arguments.
3346ab01 2092
74935b98
DW
2093DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2094 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2095 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2096
90b6341f
DW
2097DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2098
57730b52
ML
2099NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2100
66581d1e 2101
465e92cf
JJ
2102Exim version 4.72
2103-----------------
2104
453a6645
PP
2105JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2106 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2107 typos
465e92cf 2108
453a6645
PP
2109JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2110 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2111 (Finput)
edae0343 2112
9bd3e22c
NM
2113NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2114 Patch from Alain Williams
2115
bb576ff7
NM
2116NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2117
5a1a5845
NM
2118NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2119 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2120
981a9fad
NM
2121NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2122 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2123
7fc497ee
NM
2124NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2125
1a41defa
JJ
2126JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2127
a466095c 2128NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2129 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2130
94a6bd0b
NM
2131TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2132
2133TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2134
2135MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2136 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2137 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2138
c1b141a8
NM
2139NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2140 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2141
b26eacf1 2142NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2143 Patch by Simon Arlott
2144
179c5980 2145PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2146 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2147
9bd3e22c 2148
7c6d71af
NM
2149Exim version 4.71
2150-----------------
2151
7d9f747b 2152TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2153
f013fb92
NM
2154NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2155
0eb8eedd
NM
2156NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2157
663ee6d9
NM
2158NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2159
177ebd9b
NM
2160NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2161
7c6d71af 2162
210f147e
NM
2163Exim version 4.70
2164-----------------
2165
cdd3bb85 2166TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2167 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2168
2169TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2170 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2171 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2172
2173TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2174 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2175 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2176
2177TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2178 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2179
210f147e
NM
2180NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2181 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2182 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2183 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2184
deafd5b3
NM
2185NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2186 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2187 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2188
089793a4
TF
2189TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2190
5f16ca82
TF
2191TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2192
dae9d94e 2193NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2194 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2195
7d9f747b 2196NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2197
06864c44
TF
2198TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2199 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2200 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2201 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2202
65a7d8c3 2203NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2204 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2205
23510047 2206TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2207
7d9f747b 2208NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2209
7d8eec3a 2210NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2211 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2212
89dec7b6
TF
2213TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2214 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2215
a99de90c
TF
2216TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2217 that they are available at delivery time.
2218
e2803e40
TF
2219TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2220
7199e1ee
TF
2221TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2222 incoming_port log selectors.
2223
e276e04b
TF
2224TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2225 setting expands to an empty string.
2226
ce552449 2227NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2228 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2229
e765a0f1 2230NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2231 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2232
4f054c63 2233NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2234 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2235
7d9f747b
PP
2236NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2237 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2238
7d9f747b
PP
2239NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2240 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2241
b52bc06e 2242NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2243 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2244
447de4b0
NM
2245NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2246
4c69d561 2247NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2248 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2249
d5c39246 2250NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2251 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2252
0b23848a
TK
2253TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2254
8f3414a1 2255NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2256 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2257
fb6f955d
NM
2258NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2259
2260NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2261
7d9f747b
PP
2262NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2263 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2264
7d9f747b
PP
2265NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2266 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2267
7d9f747b
PP
2268NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2269 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2270
7d9f747b
PP
2271NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2272 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2273
7d9f747b
PP
2274NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2275 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2276
7d9f747b
PP
2277NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2278 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2279
7d9f747b
PP
2280NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2281 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2282
7d9f747b 2283NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2284 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2285
7d9f747b 2286NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2287
7d9f747b
PP
2288NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2289 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2290
7d9f747b 2291NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2292
7d9f747b 2293NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2294
7d9f747b 2295NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2296
7d9f747b 2297NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2298
17792b53 2299NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2300 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2301
7d9f747b
PP
2302NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2303 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2304
91576cec 2305NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2306 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2307
7d9f747b
PP
2308NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2309 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2310
7d9f747b 2311NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2312
7d9f747b 2313NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2314
7d9f747b 2315NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2316
7d9f747b 2317NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2318
deafd5b3 2319
47db1125
NM
2320Exim version 4.69
2321-----------------
2322
4b3504d0
TK
2323TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2324 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2325 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2326
2327 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2328 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2329 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2330 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2331 build errors in sieve.c.
2332
81ea09ca
NM
2333NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2334 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2335 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2336
f13cddcb
SC
2337SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2338
7d9f747b 2339NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2340
7d9f747b 2341NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2342
7d9f747b 2343NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2344
2345
eb4c0de6
PH
2346Exim version 4.68
2347-----------------
2348
2349PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2350
6a3bceb1
PH
2351PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2352 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2353 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2354 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2355 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2356 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2357 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2358 for iplsearch lookups.
2359
2360 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2361 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2362 previously such lookups could never work.
2363
4c04137d 2364 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2365 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2366 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2367
2e30fa9d
TK
2368TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2369 version.
2370
0806a9c5
MH
2371MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2372 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2373 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2374 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2375 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2376 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2377
ae276964
TK
2378TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2379 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2380
0f2cbd1b
MH
2381MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2382 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2383 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2384 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2385 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2386 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2387
2b85bce7
PH
2388PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2389 local_scan API.
2390
93655c46
PH
2391PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2392
6c512171
PH
2393PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2394 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2395 encrypted.
2396
2397PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2398 by clients under certain conditions.
2399
aa6dc513
PH
2400PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2401 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2402
a96603a0
PH
2403PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2404
8f240103
PH
2405PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2406 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2407
2408PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2409
d677b2f2
PH
2410PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2411
d52120f2
PH
2412PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2413
64f2600a
PH
2414PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2415 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2416
8669f003
PH
2417PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2418
a4dc33a8
PH
2419PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2420 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2421
d6a60c0f
PH
2422PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2423
8f128379
PH
2424PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2425
8932dffe
PH
2426PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2427 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2428 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2429 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2430
ddea74fa 2431PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2432 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2433 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2434
ddea74fa 2435PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2436 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2437
ddea74fa
PH
2438PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2439
ce9f225c
PH
2440PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2441
19897d52
PH
2442PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2443
bc64a74d
PH
2444PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2445 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2446 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2447
eb4c0de6 2448
b4ed4da0
PH
2449Exim version 4.67
2450-----------------
2451
22ad45c9
MH
2452MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2453 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2454 Jan Srzednicki.
2455
b4ed4da0
PH
2456PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2457 issue a MAIL command.
2458
431b7361
PH
2459PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2460
2461 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2462
2463 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2464 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2465 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2466 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2467 item. This has been fixed.
2468
2469PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2470 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2471
83da1223
PH
2472PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2473 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2474
54fc8428
PH
2475PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2476 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2477 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2478
34c5e8dd
SC
2479SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2480
bbe15da8
PH
2481PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2482 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2483 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2484 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2485 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2486
0e8a9471
MH
2487MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2488 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2489 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2490
f0872424
PH
2491PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2492 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2493 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2494 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2495
b01dd148
PH
2496PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2497
6bf342e1
PH
2498PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2499
273f34d0
PH
2500PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2501 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2502 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2503 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2504 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2505
cf8b11a5
PH
2506PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2507
41c7c167
PH
2508PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2509 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2510 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2511 values).
2512
9c57cbc0
PH
2513PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2514
f3f065bb
PH
2515PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2516
047bdd8c
PH
2517PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2518
0ce9abe6
PH
2519PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2520
0e22dfd1
PH
2521PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2522
4c590bd1
PH
2523PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2524 no_callout_flush is set.
2525
09945f1e
PH
2526PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2527 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2528 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2529 fixed.
2530
c51b8e75
PH
2531PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2532
e28326d8 2533PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2534 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2535 other ACL rejections are.
2536
75b1493f
PH
2537PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2538 with slight modification.
2539
7c5214ec
PH
2540PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2541 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2542
4311097e
PH
2543PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2544 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2545 connection.
2546
29f89cad
PH
2547PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2548 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2549
5e687460
SC
2550SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2551
c3611384
PH
2552PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2553 expansion side effects.
2554
5a11a7b4
PH
2555PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2556 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2557 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2558 be the same.
2559
0e20aff9
MH
2560MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2561 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2562 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2563
ca86f471
PH
2564PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2565 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2566 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2567 were accidentally chopped off.
2568
a14e5636
PH
2569PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2570 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2571 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2572 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2573 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2574 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2575 pipelining has not been advertised.
2576
ec95d1a6
PH
2577PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2578
42855d71
PH
2579PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2580 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2581 This has been fixed.
2582
57c2c631
PH
2583PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2584 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2585 reported on Solaris.
2586
58c01c94
PH
2587PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2588 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2589 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2590 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2591 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2592 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2593 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2594
dee5a20a
PH
2595PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2596 cpus.
2597
d2ee6114
PH
2598PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2599
b2d5182b
PH
2600PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2601
79749a79
PH
2602PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2603 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2604 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2605 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2606 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2607 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2608
c456d9bb
PH
2609PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2610 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2611 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2612 host_all_ignored option.
2613
cd9868ec
PH
2614PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2615 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2616 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2617 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2618 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2619 is what is supposed to happen).
2620
ebeaf996
PH
2621PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2622 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2623 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2624 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2625 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2626 uses the Exim user.
2627
2679d413
PH
2628PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2629 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2630 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2631 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2632 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2633 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2634 users.
2635
84024b72
PH
2636PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2637
8005d38e
SC
2638SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2639 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2640 (Jez Hancock).
2641 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2642 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2643
3298c6c6
SC
2644SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2645
a43a27c5
PH
2646PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2647
58eb016e 2648PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2649 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2650 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2651 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2652 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2653 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2654 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2655 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2656 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2657 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2658 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2659
b43a74ea
PH
2660PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2661 advertised in response to EHLO.
2662
b4ed4da0 2663
5dd1517f
PH
2664Exim version 4.66
2665-----------------
2666
2667PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2668 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2669
2670 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2671 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2672
2673 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2674 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2675 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2676
2677 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2678 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2679 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2680 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2681 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2682
2683
93cfa765
TK
2684Exim version 4.65
2685-----------------
2686
2687TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2688 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2689 versions. (#438)
2690
d6066548
MH
2691MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2692 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2693 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2694
4362ff0d
PH
2695PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2696 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2697 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2698 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2699 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2700 rather than extend the field.
2701
93cfa765 2702
944e9e9c
TF
2703Exim version 4.64
2704-----------------
aa41d2de 2705
21d74bd9
TK
2706TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2707 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2708 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2709 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2710 these files.
2711
2712TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2713 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2714 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2715
2716TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2717 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2718 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2719
2720TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2721 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2722 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2723 in the field name.
2724
2b1c6e3a
PH
2725PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2726 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2727 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2728 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2729 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2730 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2731 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2732 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2733 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2734 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2735 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2736
1f872c80
PH
2737PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2738 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2739
2740PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2741 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2742 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2743 ignores EPIPE as well.
2744
d203e649
PH
2745PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2746 (quoted-printable decoding).
2747
cc2ed8f7 2748PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2749 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2750
ddfcd446
PH
2751PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2752
d45b1de8
PH
2753PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2754
2755PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2756
38a0a95f 2757PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2758 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2759
a2405d83
JJ
2760JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2761 in 4.64-PH/09.
2762
2763JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2764 miscellaneous code fixes
2765
6ea85e9a
PH
2766PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2767 rejections.
2768
26da7e20
PH
2769PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2770 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2771 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2772 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2773 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2774 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2775 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2776 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2777
14aa5a05 2778PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2779 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2780 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2781 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2782 function.
2783 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2784 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2785 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2786 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2787 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2788 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2789 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2790 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2791 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2792
ff75a1f7
PH
2793PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2794 decoding.
2795
e6f6568e
PH
2796PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2797 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2798 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2799 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2800 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2801 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2802 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2803 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2804
d6f6e0dc
PH
2805PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2806 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2807 list.
2808
322050c2
PH
2809PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2810 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2811 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2812 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2813 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2814 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2815 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2816 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2817 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2818 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2819 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2820 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2821 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2822
08955dd3
PH
2823PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2824 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2825 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2826 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2827 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2828 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2829 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2830
1eccaa59
PH
2831PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2832 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2833 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2834 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2835 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2836 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2837 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2838 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2839 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2840 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2841
602e59e5
PH
2842PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2843 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2844 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2845 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2846 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2847
411ef850
PH
2848PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2849 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2850 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2851 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2852 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2853 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2854 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2855
7befa435
PH
2856PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2857 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2858 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2859 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2860 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2861 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2862 been verified.
2863
48da4259 2864PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2865 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2866 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2867 and authorization.)
2868
48da4259
PH
2869PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2870 if any retry times were supplied.
2871
d1d5595c
PH
2872PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2873 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2874 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2875
0ef732d9
PH
2876PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2877
328895cc
PH
2878PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2879
fd700877
PH
2880PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2881 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2882 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2883 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2884 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2885 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2886
8dce1a6f
PH
2887PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2888 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2889
17af4a17
PH
2890PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2891 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2892 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2893
2894PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2895 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2896 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2897 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2898 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2899 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2900 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2901 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2902 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2903
2904 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2905 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2906 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2907 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2908 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2909 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2910 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2911 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2912 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2913
2914 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2915 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2916 hammering the server.
2917
c1114884
PH
2918PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2919 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2920
7a0743eb
PH
2921PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2922
0d85fa3f
PH
2923PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2924 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2925 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2926
1bf43b78
PH
2927PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2928 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2929 one case where this was not true.
2930
520de300
PH
2931PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2932 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2933 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2934 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2935 fails.
2936
48c7f9e2
PH
2937PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2938 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2939 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2940 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2941 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2942 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2943 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2944 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2945 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2946 smtp transport.
2947
99ea1c86
PH
2948PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2949 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2950 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2951 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2952
a2042e78
PH
2953PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2954 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2955
4fbcfc2e
PH
2956PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2957 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2958 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2959
aa41d2de
PH
2960PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2961
af561417
PH
2962PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2963
3cc66b45
PH
2964PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2965
194cc0e4
PH
2966PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2967 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2968 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2969 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2970
a401ddaa
PH
2971PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2972 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2973
4e88a19f
PH
2974PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2975 be meaningful with "accept".
2976
d7d7b289
SC
2977SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2978 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2979
2980SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2981 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2982 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2983
2984SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2985 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2986 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2987 there is data to show.
2988 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2989
2990SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2991 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2992 as well as the number of messages.
2993
2994SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2995 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2996 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2997
2998SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2999 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3000 have a flag are now skipped.
3001
3002SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3003 Added the -emptyok flag.
3004
3005SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3006 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3007
0ea2a468
JJ
3008JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3009 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3010 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3011
3012JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3013 match 4.64-PH/13
3014
3015JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3016 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3017
3018JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3019
3020JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3021 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3022
8a10f5a4
PH
3023PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3024
30e18802
PH
3025PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3026 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3027 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3028 contravention of the specifications.
3029
55728a4f
PH
3030PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3031 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3032 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3033
d7837193
PH
3034PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3035 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3036 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3037
87054a31
PH
3038PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3039
ea2c01d2
MH
3040MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3041 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3042 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3043 some point in the past.
3044
e4fa6968
PH
3045PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3046 transport during callout processing was broken.
3047
56f5d9bd
PH
3048PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3049 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3050
922e1c28
PH
3051PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3052 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3053
21eb6e72
PH
3054PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3055 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3056
a0540757
PH
3057PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3058
944e9e9c 3059
478be7b0
SC
3060Exim version 4.63
3061-----------------
3062
3063SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3064 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3065
3066SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3067 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3068 there is data to show.
3069 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3070
3071SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3072 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3073
2b965a65
TF
3074TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3075 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3076
45b91596
PH
3077TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3078 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3079
c59f5781
TF
3080TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3081 submissions from trusted users.
3082
90fc3069
TF
3083TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3084 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3085
6083aca0
TF
3086TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3087 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3088 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3089 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3090 there is now a framework to start from.
3091
765b530f
PH
3092PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3093 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3094 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3095
4e167a8c
PH
3096PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3097
4608d683
PH
3098PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3099
b8dc3e4a
PH
3100PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3101
5418e93b
PH
3102PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3103 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3104 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3105
b4a9bda2
PH
3106PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3107 libradius.
3108
45b91596
PH
3109PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3110 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3111 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3112
5547e2c5
PH
3113PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3114 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3115 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3116 its arguments.
3117
dbcef0ea
PH
3118PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3119 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3120 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3121 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3122 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3123
25257489
PH
3124PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3125 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3126
c816d124
PH
3127PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3128
a9ccd69a
PH
3129PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3130 operations in malware.c.
3131
75fa1910
PH
3132PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3133 signatures.
3134
a7d7aa58
PH
3135PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3136 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3137 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3138 all.
3139
42119b09
PH
3140PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3141 statements to "add_header".
3142
41609df5
PH
3143PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3144 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3145
a5bd321b
PH
3146PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3147 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3148 latter.
3149
e85a7ad5 3150PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3151 so that it is now:
3152
e85a7ad5
PH
3153 ${if or { \
3154 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3155 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3156 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3157 }{no}{yes}}
3158
e85a7ad5
PH
3159 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3160 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3161
d8fe1c03
PH
3162PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3163 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3164
16282d2b
PH
3165PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3166 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3167 any possible encoding problems.
3168
35d40a98
PH
3169PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3170 but not after initializing Perl.
3171
034d99ab
PH
3172PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3173 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3174 apparently, which is not desirable.
3175
6ec97b1b
PH
3176PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3177 queries.
3178
e22ca4ac
JJ
3179JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3180 --not options
3181
3182JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3183
33d73e3b
PH
3184PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3185 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3186 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3187 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3188
9ecb03f3
PH
3189PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3190 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3191 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3192
084efe8d
PH
3193PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3194 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3195 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3196 0.12.
3197
366fc9f0
PH
3198PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3199 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3200 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3201 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3202 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3203
c59f5781 3204
c887c79e
TF
3205Exim version 4.62
3206-----------------
3207
3208TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3209 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3210
1cce3af8
PH
3211PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3212 patch).
3213
afb3eaaf
PH
3214PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3215 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3216 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3217 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3218 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3219 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3220 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3221 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3222 451 error is used.
3223
e173618b
PH
3224PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3225
dd16e114
PH
3226PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3227 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3228 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3229
f7fd3850
PH
3230PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3231 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3232 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3233 odd errors.
3234
d87df92c
PH
3235PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3236 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3237
7e9f683d
PH
3238PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3239 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3240 option (which defaults to 0600).
3241
bfad5236
PH
3242PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3243
01c490df
PH
3244PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3245 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3246 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3247 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3248 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3249 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3250 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3251
d6629cdc
PH
3252PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3253
1cce3af8 3254
214e2000
PH
3255Exim version 4.61
3256-----------------
3257
3258PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3259 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3260 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3261 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3262 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3263 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3264 addresses as local.
3265
f9daeae0
PH
3266PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3267 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3268
7e66e54d
PH
3269PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3270
c8ea1597
PH
3271PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3272 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3273 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3274 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3275 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3276 grumble.
3277
911f6fde
PH
3278PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3279 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3280
47ca6d6c
PH
3281PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3282 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3283 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3284 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3285 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3286
ed0e9820
PH
3287PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3288 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3289 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3290 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3291
eff37e47
PH
3292PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3293 be the same on different OS.
3294
1921d2ea
PH
3295PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3296 testing.
3297
b3f69ca8
JJ
3298JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3299 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3300
3301JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3302 in 4.61-PH/06
3303
424a1c63
PH
3304PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3305 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3306 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3307 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3308 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3309 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3310 bounce message.
3311
7a100415
PH
3312PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3313 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3314 when Exim was called.
3315
19b9dc85
PH
3316PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3317 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3318
309bd837
PH
3319PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3320 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3321 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3322 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3323
59e82a2a
PH
3324PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3325 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3326 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3327 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3328 changes:
3329
3330 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3331 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3332 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3333
3334 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3335 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3336 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3337
9edc04ce
PH
3338PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3339 feature).
3340
1349e1e5
PH
3341PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3342 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3343 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3344 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3345 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3346 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3347 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3348 values from the SRV records were lost.
3349
ea49d0e1
PH
3350PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3351 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3352 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3353
064a94c9
PH
3354PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3355 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3356 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3357
727071f8
PH
3358PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3359 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3360 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3361 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3362 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3363 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3364 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3365 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3366 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3367 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3368
f78eb7c6
PH
3369PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3370 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3371 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3372
21c28500
PH
3373PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3374 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3375
3376PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3377 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3378 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3379 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3380 is given.
3381
1688f43b
PH
3382PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3383 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3384 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3385
3386PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3387 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3388 PH/23 above applies.
3389
9675b384
PH
3390PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3391 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3392 (for which there is an explicit test).
3393
6a3f1455
PH
3394PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3395
dac79d3e
PH
3396PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3397 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3398 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3399 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3400 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3401
5977a0b3
PH
3402PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3403 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3404 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3405 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3406
c91535f3
PH
3407PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3408 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3409 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3410
0d46a8c8
PH
3411PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3412
278c6e6c
PH
3413PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3414
2cbb4081
PH
3415PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3416 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3417 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3418
3eef829e
PH
3419PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3420 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3421 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3422 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3423 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3424
1ab95fa6
PH
3425PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3426 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3427 the message gets confusing).
3428
230205fc
PH
3429PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3430 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3431 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3432 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3433
75e0e026
PH
3434PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3435 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3436 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3437 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3438 same order.
3439
3440PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3441 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3442 the different processes.
3443
145396a6
PH
3444PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3445
3cd34f13
PH
3446PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3447
11121d3d
JJ
3448JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3449 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3450
3451JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3452 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3453
3454JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3455 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3456 messages matching specified criteria.
3457
8def5aaf
PH
3458PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3459
929ba01c
PH
3460PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3461 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3462
2632889e
PH
3463PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3464 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3465 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3466 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3467 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3468 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3469 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3470 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3471 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3472 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3473
944a9c55
PH
3474PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3475 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3476 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3477
4a23603b
PH
3478PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3479
4730f942
PH
3480PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3481 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3482 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3483 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3484 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3485 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3486 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3487 the variable.
3488
30dba1e6
PH
3489PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3490 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3491
382afc6b
PH
3492PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3493
a86229cf
PH
3494PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3495
50c99ba6
PH
3496PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3497
d35e429d
PH
3498PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3499 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3500 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3501 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3502 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3503 size of the count of files.
3504
f90d018c
PH
3505PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3506
75def545
PH
3507PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3508 used in LMTP mode:
3509
3510 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3511 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3512 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3513 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3514
3515 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3516 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3517 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3518
3519PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3520 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3521 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3522 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3523 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3524
c46782ef
PH
3525PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3526 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3527
71fafd95
PH
3528PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3529 will now be deprecated.
3530
2c5db4fd
PH
3531PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3532
9cf6b11a
JJ
3533JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3534 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3535 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3536
3537JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3538 with very large, slow to parse queues
3539
3540JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3541
3542JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3543
898d150f
PH
3544PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3545 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3546 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3547 SMTP output lines.
3548
46218253
PH
3549PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3550 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3551 Sieve code now uses this.
3552
e97957bc
PH
3553PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3554 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3555
81e509d7
PH
3556PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3557 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3558
3d240ff7
PH
3559PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3560
b37c4101
PH
3561PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3562 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3563 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3564 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3565 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3566
79378e0f
PH
3567PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3568 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3569 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3570 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3571
e49c7bb4
PH
3572PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3573
d114ec46
PH
3574PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3575
f3d7df6c
PH
3576PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3577 is preferred over IPv4.
3578
715ab376
PH
3579PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3580 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3581 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3582 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3583 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3584 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3585 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3586
6b31b150
PH
3587PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3588 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3589 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3590
3591PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3592
d515a917
PH
3593PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3594 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3595 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3596 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3597 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3598 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3599 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3600 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3601 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3602 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3603 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3604
9b8fadde
PH
3605PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3606 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3607 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3608
214e2000 3609
5de37277
PH
3610Exim version 4.60
3611-----------------
3612
cc38ddbf
PH
3613PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3614
3615 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3616 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3617
3618 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3619 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3620 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3621
72fdd6ae
PH
3622PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3623
3624 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3625 not a single digit.
3626
3627 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3628 string.
3629
3630 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3631 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3632 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3633 silly things.
3634
3635 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3636 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3637
3638 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3639 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3640
cb741023
PH
3641PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3642 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3643 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3644
f174f16e
PH
3645PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3646 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3647
c25242d7
PH
3648PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3649 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3650
3651 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3652
3653 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3654 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3655 this:
3656
3657 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3658
82c19f95
PH
3659PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3660 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3661 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3662 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3663 identical. For example:
3664
3665 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3666
3667 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3668 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3669 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3670
d7ffbc12
PH
3671PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3672 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3673 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3674 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3675
9f526266
PH
3676PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3677 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3678 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3679 message.
3680
87fcc8b9
PH
3681PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3682
3683 o fixes some comments
3684 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3685 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3686 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3687 and documents the missing references header update
3688
3689 and most important:
3690
3691 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3692 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3693 result)
3694
456682f5
PH
3695PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3696 Electronic Mail") by including:
3697
3698 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3699
3700 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3701 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3702 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3703 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3704 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3705
3706 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3707
3708 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3709
3710 The auto-replied keyword:
3711
3712 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3713 message by an automatic process,
3714
3715 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3716
3717 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3718 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3719
3720 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3721 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3722 other messages.
3723
3e46c1aa
PH
3724PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3725 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3726
49826d12
PH
3727PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3728
eba0c039
PH
3729PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3730 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3731 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3732
a0d6ba8a
PH
3733PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3734 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3735 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3736
f0917727
PH
3737PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3738 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3739 and treats the condition as false.
3740
096fee00
PH
3741PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3742
024bd3c2
PH
3743PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3744 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3745 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3746 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3747 not changing the active code.
3748
3749 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3750 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3751
3752 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3753 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3754
df199fec
PH
3755PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3756 (Bugzilla #53).
3757
d27f1df3
PH
3758PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3759 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3760 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3761 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3762 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3763 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3764 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3765 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3766 the text comparison.
3767
96776534
PH
3768PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3769 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3770 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3771 The same fix has been applied.
3772
5de37277 3773
9a799bc0
PH
3774Exim version 4.54
3775-----------------
3776
3777PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3778 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3779 It now does.
3780
99a4b039
PH
3781PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3782 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3783
3784PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3785
4b233853
PH
3786PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3787 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3788 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3789 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3790 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3791
8857ccfd
PH
3792TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3793 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3794 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3795 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3796 or /domain=).
3797
433a2980
PH
3798PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3799 testing suite.
3800
3e46c1aa 3801
9a799bc0 3802
e3a311ba
TK
3803Exim version 4.53
3804-----------------
3805
3806TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3807 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3808
13b685f9
PH
3809PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3810
395ff96d
PH
3811PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3812
5b68f6e4
PH
3813PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3814 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3815 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3816
1ab52c69
PH
3817PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3818 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3819 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3820
b07e6aa3
PH
3821PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3822 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3823 operating systems.
3824
254e032f
PH
3825PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3826 ${stat: expansion item.
3827
3af76a81
PH
3828PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3829 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3830
2548ba04
PH
3831PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3832 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3833 file for comments.
3834
b6c6011d
PH
3835PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3836
cf39cf57
PH
3837PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3838 setting.
3839
f1513293
PH
3840PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3841 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3842
727549a4
PH
3843TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3844
af46795e
PH
3845PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3846 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3847 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3848 the end of the subprocess.
3849
d7b47fd0
PH
3850PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3851 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3852 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3853 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3854 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3855
ee744174
JJ
3856JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3857
b582ab87
PH
3858TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3859
41a13e0a
PH
3860PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3861 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3862
f625cc5a
PH
3863PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3864
3865PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3866
21f7af35
PH
3867PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3868 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3869 HP-UX compiler.
3870
31480e42
PH
3871PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3872
2d280592
PH
3873PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3874 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3875 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3876
7cd1141b
PH
3877PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3878 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3879
3880PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3881 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3882
750af86e
PH
3883PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3884 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3885
3886 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3887 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3888
3889 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3890 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3891 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3892 contributed by a Radius user.
3893
3894PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3895 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3896
4304270b
TK
3897TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3898 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3899
750af86e
PH
3900PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3901 available.
3902
64ffc24f
PH
3903PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3904 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3905 received.
3906
5dd9625b
PH
3907PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3908 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3909 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3910 header lines when this was not necessary.
3911
5591031b
PH
3912PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3913
ba18e66a
PH
3914PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3915 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3916 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3917 exists".
3918
9cec981f
PH
3919PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3920 -bV or -d is used.
3921
aa2b5c79
PH
3922PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3923 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3924 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3925 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3926
48a53b7f
PH
3927PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3928
1c59d63b
PH
3929PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3930
671012da
TK
3931TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3932
1509d3a8
PH
3933PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3934
3935PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3936 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3937 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3938 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3939 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3940 settings.
3941
3942PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3943
2fe1a124
PH
3944PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3945 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3946 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3947 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3948 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3949 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3950 which is clearly wrong.
3951
8800895a
PH
3952PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3953
ccfdb010
PH
3954PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3955 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3956 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3957 subsequently added.
3958
1130bfb0
PH
3959PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3960 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3961
ebcb507f
PH
3962PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3963
c35e155c
PH
3964PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3965 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3966
95d1f782
PH
3967PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3968 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3969
fd6de02e
PH
3970PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3971 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3972
58de37c5
PH
3973PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3974 recipients, not senders.
3975
261cf466
TF
3976TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3977 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3978
3ee512ff
PH
3979PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3980
e08c430f
PH
3981PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3982
bef5a11f
PH
3983PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3984 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3985 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3986 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3987
7546de58
TF
3988TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3989
e5d5a95f
TF
3990TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3991 clock is set back in time.
3992
2e88a017
TF
3993TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3994 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3995
a5f65aa4
TF
3996TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3997 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3998
e7726cbf
PH
3999PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4000 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4001 (see PH/47 above).
4002
a7fdad5b
TF
4003TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4004 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4005 header rewrites.
4006
6af56900
PH
4007PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4008 type ("H").
4009
0925ede6
PH
4010PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4011
66afa403
TF
4012TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4013 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4014 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4015
0154e85a
TF
4016TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4017 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4018 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4019 helo verification defer as a failure.
4020
16f12c76
PH
4021PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4022 actual error message.
4023
bbe902f0 4024
e5a9dba6
PH
4025Exim version 4.52
4026-----------------
4027
4028TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4029
22c3b60b
PH
4030PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4031 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4032 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4033 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4034
06a9b4b5
PH
4035TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4036
c1ac6996
PH
4037PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4038 can still be requested.
4039
9c7a242c
PH
4040PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4041 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4042 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4043 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4044
87ba3f5f
PH
4045TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4046 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4047 circumstances, but probably never did.
4048
4049PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4050 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4051 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4052 in the header line.
4053
29aba418
TF
4054TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4055
fe0dab11
TF
4056TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4057 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4058
11d337a4
TK
4059TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4060
4061TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4062
415c8f3b
PH
4063PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4064 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4065 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4066 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4067 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4068 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4069
958541e9
PH
4070PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4071 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4072 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4073 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4074 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4075 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4076
c206415f
TK
4077TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4078 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4079
2a4be8f9
PH
4080PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4081 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4082
1cba11c5
SC
4083SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4084 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4085
4c04137d 4086SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4087
4088SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4089
4090SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4091
4092SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4093
4094SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4095
4096SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4097
1005d00e
TK
4098TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4099
4100TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4101 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4102 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4103
4104TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4105 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4106 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4107 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4108
9b4768fa
PH
4109PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4110 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4111 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4112
4113PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4114 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4115 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4116 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4117
0d7eb84a
PH
4118PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4119 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4120 to be made).
4121
4122PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4123 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4124 should work with maildirs and everything.
4125
40727bee
TK
4126TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4127 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4128
554d2369
TF
4129TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4130 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4131
1f922db1
PH
4132PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4133 function for BDB 4.3.
4134
ef213c3b
PH
4135PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4136
8ac170f3
PH
4137PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4138 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4139 involved.
4140
b1c749bb
PH
4141PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4142 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4143 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4144 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4145 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4146 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4147
4aac9b49
PH
4148PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4149 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4150 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4151 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4152 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4153 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4154 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4155 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4156
294520c8
TK
4157TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4158 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4159 details.
4160
5bd022fe
PH
4161PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4162 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4163
90e9ce59
PH
4164PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4165 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4166 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4167 test. It is now used for both.
4168
5ea81592
PH
4169PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4170 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4171 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4172 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4173 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4174 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4175
c6c2dc1d
PH
4176PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4177 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4178 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4179 string_vformat().
4180
fffffe4c
PH
4181PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4182 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4183 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4184
9a26b6b2
PH
4185PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4186 experimental DomainKeys support:
4187
4188 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4189 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4190 the control was given.
4191
4192 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4193
4aee0225
PH
4194PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4195
32d668a5
PH
4196PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4197
8187c3f3
PH
4198PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4199 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4200 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4201 db.h files).
4202
ff790e47 4203PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4204 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4205 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4206 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4207 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4208 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4209 course.
ff790e47 4210
5417f6d1
PH
4211PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4212 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4213 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4214 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4215 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4216 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4217
59cf8544
PH
4218PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4219 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4220 do -d+all out of habit.
4221
e7ad8a65
PH
4222PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4223 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4224 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4225
ade42478
PH
4226PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4227 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4228 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4229 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4230 record types that Exim uses.
4231
182ad5cf
PH
4232PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4233 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4234 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4235 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4236 non-existent file that was broken.
4237
b0d9fc80
TK
4238TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4239 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4240
4241TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4242 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4243 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4244
4245TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4246
47c7a64a
PH
4247PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4248 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4249 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4250 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4251 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4252 same time.
4253
a388bce4
SC
4254SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4255 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4256 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4257 at a slight CPU cost.
4258
4259SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4260 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4261
4262SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4263 by Marc Sherman.
4264
0793e4ed
SC
4265SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4266
c58b88df
PH
4267PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4268 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4269
e7ad8a65 4270
7982096b
PH
4271Exim version 4.51
4272-----------------
4273
1a46a8c5
PH
4274TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4275 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4276
2f079f46 4277TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4278
4279TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4280
4281PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4282 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4283
4284PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4285 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4286 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4287 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4288 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4289 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4290 file.
4291
4292PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4293 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4294 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4295 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4296 these two options.
4297
4298PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4299 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4300 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4301 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4302 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4303 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4304 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4305 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4306
4307PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4308 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4309
4310PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4311 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4312 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4313 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4314 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4315 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4316
4317PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4318 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4319 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4320 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4321
4322PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4323 Finch).
4324
4325PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4326 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4327
49c2d5ea
PH
4328PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4329 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4330 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4331 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4332 message.
49c2d5ea 4333
bf759a8b
PH
4334PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4335
83364d30
PH
4336PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4337 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4338
7999bbd7
PH
4339PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4340 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4341 to what was transported.)
4342
7dbf77c9
PH
4343TF/01 Added $received_time.
4344
74e0617f
PH
4345PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4346 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4347 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4348 spamd_address settings.
4349
2f079f46
PH
4350PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4351 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4352 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4353 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4354 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4355
8c841523
PH
4356PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4357
7766a4f0
PH
4358PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4359 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4360 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4361 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4362 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4363
8b417f2c
PH
4364PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4365 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4366
901f42cb
PH
4367PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4368 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4369 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4370 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4371 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4372 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4373 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4374 for failure.
4375
f9b9210e
PH
4376PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4377 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4378 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4379 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4380 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4381 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4382 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4383 "input=".
4384
54cdb463
PH
4385PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4386
cf00dad6
PH
4387PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4388 driver and ACL definitions.
4389
acb1b346
PH
4390PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4391 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4392
c5ddb310
PH
4393PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4394 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4395 understands it better than I do:
4396
4397 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4398 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4399
4400 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4401 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4402 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4403 => three warnings about OTP not working
4404 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4405
4406 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4407 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4408 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4409 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4410 for each call.)
4411 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4412 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4413
4414 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4415 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4416 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4417
31619da6
PH
4418PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4419 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4420 specified.
4421
bebaf0fc
PH
4422PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4423 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4424 "Linux".
4425
475fe28a
PH
4426PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4427 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4428 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4429
4430 warn !verify = sender
4431 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4432
4433 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4434 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4435
7e8bec7a
PH
4436PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4437
4438 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4439 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4440
4441 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4442 nomenclature these days.)
4443
e4a89c47
PH
4444PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4445 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4446
5ca2a9a1
PH
4447PH/30 In these circumstances:
4448 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4449 . First host does not offer TLS;
4450 . First host accepts first address;
4451 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4452 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4453 . Second host accepts second address.
4454 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4455 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4456 address.
7e8bec7a 4457
c688b954
PH
4458PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4459 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4460 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4461 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4462 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4463
fed77020
PH
4464PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4465 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4466
7fe1560f
PH
4467PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4468 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4469
ebb6e6d5
PH
4470PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4471 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4472 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4473
9c4e8f60
PH
4474PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4475 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4476 overlooked.
4477
4478PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4479
d7174846
PH
4480PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4481 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4482 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4483 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4484 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4485 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4486 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4487
4488 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4489 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4490 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4491 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4492 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4493
4494 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4495 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4496 routed further.
4497
cfe75fc3
PH
4498PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4499 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4500 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4501 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4502 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4503 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4504
be22d70e
PH
4505PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4506
0612b098
PH
4507PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4508 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4509 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4510 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4511 printable escape sequences.
4512
2e0c1448
PH
4513PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4514 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4515 body only.
4516
447d236c
PH
4517PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4518 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4519 are as follows:
4520
4521 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4522 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4523 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4524 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4525 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4526
4527 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4528 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4529 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4530
d20976dc
PH
4531PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4532
f656d135
PH
4533PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4534 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4535 play with."
4536
2e2a30b4
PH
4537PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4538 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4539 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4540 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4541 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4542 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4543 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4544 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4545 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4546 the log output.
4547
9176e9f0
PH
4548PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4549 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4550 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4551 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4552 "make".
4553
7982096b 4554
bbe902f0
PH
4555A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4556----------------------------------------
4557
4558Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4559changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4560needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4561in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4562that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4563release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4564from 4.43.
4565
4566I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
45674.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4568those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4569historical information.
4570
4571
f7b63901 4572Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4573-----------------
4574
5fe762f6
PH
4575 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4576
139059f6 4577 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4578 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4579
7086e875
PH
4580 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4581 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4582 place.
4583
35af9f61
PH
4584 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4585 filter fails to execute.
4586
b668c215
PH
4587 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4588 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4589 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4590 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4591 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4592
a494b1e1
PH
4593 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4594
4595 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4596 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4597 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4598 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4599
c5fcb476
PH
4600 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4601 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4602 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4603 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4604 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4605
69358f02
PH
4606 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4607
5be20824
PH
460810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4609
eb2c0248
PH
461011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4611 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4612 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4613 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4614
2a3eea10
PH
461512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4616 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4617 sender verification.
4618
461913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4620 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4621
23c7ff99
PH
462214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4623
4deaf07d
PH
462415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4625 connection timeout.
4626
926e1192
PH
462716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4628 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4629
650edc6f
PH
463017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4631 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4632
2c7db3f5
PH
463318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4634 information about exactly what failed.
4635
3d235903
PH
463619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4637
7c7ad977
PH
463820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4639 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4640 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4641
981756db
PH
464221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4643 It is now set to "smtps".
4644
d4eb88df
PH
464522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4646 ignore_target_hosts.
4647
464823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4649 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4650 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4651 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4652 "[x.x.x.x]".
4653
7d468ab8
PH
465424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4655 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4656 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4657
465825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4659 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4660 wake it up if nothing else does.
4661
62c0818f
PH
466226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4663 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4664 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4665 end up negative.
4666
26034054
PH
466727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4668 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4669
af66f652
PH
467028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4671
90af77f4
PH
467229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4673 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4674 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4675 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4676 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4677 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4678 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4679 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4680
d8ef3577
PH
468130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4682 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4683 than one IP address.
4684
5cb8cbc6
PH
468531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4686 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4687 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4688 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4689
14702f5b
PH
469032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4691 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4692 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4693 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4694 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4695 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4696
063b1e99
PH
469733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4698 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4699 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4700 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4701
652e1b65
PH
470234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4703 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4704 respected.
4705
6f0c9a4f
PH
470635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4707 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4708 $sender_host_address.
4709
33397d19
PH
471036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4711 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4712 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4713 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4714 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4715 very small.
4716
7bb56e1f
PH
471737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4718
4719 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4720 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4721
ea3bc19b
PH
4722 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4723 just the host names, not the priorities.
4724
4725 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4726 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4727 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4728
ea3bc19b 4729 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4730 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4731
0bcb2a0e
PH
473238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4733 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4734 domain.
4735
2ac0e484
PH
473639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4737
4e1fde53
PH
473840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4739 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4740
de365ded
PH
474141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4742 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4743 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4744
f05da2e8
PH
474542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4746
d6453af2
PH
474743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4748
f7b63901
PH
474944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4750
475145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4752 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4753 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4754 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4755 because the tests only now provoked it.
4756
a444213a
PH
475746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4758 (this can affect the format of dates).
4759
0ec020ea
PH
476047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4761 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4762 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4763 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4764
b1206957
PH
476548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4766
476749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4768 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4769 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4770 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4771
26dd5a95
PH
477250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4773 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4774 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4775
343b2385
PH
477651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4777 autoreply.
4778
1c5466b9
PH
477952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4780 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4781 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4782 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4783 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4784 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4785 is going on).
4786
55ee9ee3
PH
478753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4788 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4789 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4790 the line.
4791
d38f8232
PH
479254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4793 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4794 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4795
4796 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4797 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4798 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4799 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4800 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4801 so I produce this patch..."
4802
3295e65b
PH
4803 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4804 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4805 is not defined.
4806
7102e136
PH
480755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4808 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4809 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4810 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4811 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4812
3ca0ba97
PH
481356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4814
c2bcbe20
PH
481557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4816 long debug lines gets shown.
4817
18ce445d
PH
481858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4819 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4820
1f5b4c3d
PH
482159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4822
4823 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4824 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4825 of $primary_hostname.
4826
b975ba52
PH
482760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4828 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4829 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4830 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4831 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4832 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4833 by change 4.50/55 above.
4834
4835 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4836 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4837 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4838 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4839 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4840 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4841 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4842
484361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4844 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4845 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4846 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4847
17ffcae7
PH
484862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4849 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4850
d95f9fdb
PH
485163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4852 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4853 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4854 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4855 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4856
86b8287f
PH
485764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4858 This has been fixed.
4859
60dc5e56
PH
486065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4861 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4862 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4863 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4864 the caching.)
4865
533244af
PH
486666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4867
a5a28604
PH
486867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4869 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4870 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4871 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4872
7e634d24
PH
487368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4874 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4875
3e11c26b
PH
487669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4877 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4878 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4879
6729cf78
PH
488070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4881 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4882 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4883 message there.
4884
00f00ca5
PH
488571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4886 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4887 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4888
c9bdd01c
PH
488972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4890 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4891 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4892 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4893
d43194df
PH
489473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4895 during host lookups.
4896
fe5b5d0b
PH
489774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4898 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4899
4900 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4901
76a2d7ba
PH
490275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4903 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4904 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4905 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4906 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4907 background.
4908
490976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4910 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4911
04f7d5b9
PH
491277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4913 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4914 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4915
bc60667e
PH
491678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4917
bb6e88ff
PH
491879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4919 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4920 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4921 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4922 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4923 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4924 process earlier.
4925
1e70f85b
PH
492680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4927 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4928 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4929 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4930 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4931
493281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4933 tables).
4934
4e01f9d6
PH
493582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4936
1ee1cef2
PH
493783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4938 "vacation" handling.
4939
6e2b4ccc
PH
494084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4941 OS variants using glibc.
4942
8e669ac1
PH
494385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4944
495ae4b0 4945
bbe902f0
PH
4946----------------------------------------------------
4947See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4948----------------------------------------------------
4949
4950
4951Exim version 4.44
4952-----------------
4953
4954 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4955 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4956 transport
4957
4958 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4959 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4960 place.
4961
4962 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4963 filter fails to execute.
4964
4965 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4966 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4967 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4968 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4969 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4970
4971 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4972 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4973 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4974 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4975
4976 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4977 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4978 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4979 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4980 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4981
4982 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4983
4984 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4985 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4986 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4987 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4988
4989 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4990 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4991 sender verification.
4992
499310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4994 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4995
499611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4997 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4998
499912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5000 ignore_target_hosts.
5001
500213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5003 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5004 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5005 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5006 "[x.x.x.x]".
5007
500814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5009 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5010 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5011
501215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5013 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5014 wake it up if nothing else does.
5015
501616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5017 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5018 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5019 end up negative.
5020
502117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5022 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5023
ea3a6f44 502418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5025
502619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5027 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5028 empty pattern.
5029
503020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5031 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5032 one IP address.
5033
ea3a6f44
NM
503421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5035 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5036 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5037 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5038 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5039 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5040
ea3a6f44
NM
504122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5042 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5043 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5044
504523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5046 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5047 $sender_host_address.
5048
504924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5050
ea3a6f44
NM
505125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5052 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5053 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5054
505526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5056 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5057
ea3a6f44
NM
505827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5059 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5060
ea3a6f44
NM
506128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5062 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5063 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5064 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5065
506629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5067 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5068 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5069
ea3a6f44
NM
507030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5071 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5072 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5073 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5074
ea3a6f44
NM
507531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5076 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5077 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5078
ea3a6f44
NM
507931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5080 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5081
ea3a6f44
NM
508232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5083 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5084 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5085 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5086 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5087 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5088 is going on).
bbe902f0 5089
ea3a6f44
NM
509033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5091 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5092 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5093 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5094 CAN-2005-0021
5095
ea3a6f44
NM
509634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5097 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5098 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5099 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5100 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5101 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5102 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5103
5104 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5105 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5106 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5107 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5108 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5109 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5110 CAN-2005-0021
5111
ea3a6f44
NM
511235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5113 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5114 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5115 CAN-2005-0022
5116
ea3a6f44
NM
511736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5118 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5119 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5120 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5121 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5122
ea3a6f44
NM
512337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5124 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5125 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5126 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5127 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5128
ea3a6f44
NM
512938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5130 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5131 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5132 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5133 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5134
5135
495ae4b0
PH
5136Exim version 4.43
5137-----------------
5138
5139 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5140 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5141 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5142 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5143 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5144 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5145 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5146
5147 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5148 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5149 the delivery.
5150
5151 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5152
5153 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5154
5155 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5156 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5157 to local_scan().
5158
5159 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5160 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5161 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5162 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5163 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5164
5165 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5166 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5167
5168 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5169
5170 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5171
517210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5173 header_sender only.
5174
517511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5176 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5177
517812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5179 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5180 affecting debugging statements).
5181
518213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5183
518414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5185 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5186 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5187 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5188 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5189 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5190 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5191 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5192 after the received time, and all would be well.
5193
519415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5195 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5196 condition in an expansion string.
5197
519816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5199
520017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5201 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5202 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5203 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5204 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5205 job under whatever limits there are.
5206
520718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5208
520919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5210 space).
5211
521220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5213 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5214 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5215 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5216 return path is set.
5217
521821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5219 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5220 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5221 binary data in such strings.
5222
522322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5224
522523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5226 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5227 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5228 failure, which is pointless.
5229
523024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5231
523225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5233
523426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5235 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5236 Sender: header lines.
5237
523827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5239 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5240 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5241
524228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5243 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5244 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5245 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5246 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5247 happens.
5248
524929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5250 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5251 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5252 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5253 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5254
525530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5256 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5257 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5258 1024.
5259
526031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5261 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5262
526332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5264 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5265
526633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5267
526832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5269
527033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5271
527234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5273 syntax error.
5274
527535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5276
527736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5278
527937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5280 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5281 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5282 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5283
528438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5285 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5286
5287
5288Exim version 4.42
5289-----------------
5290
5291 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5292 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5293 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5294 it was not quoted.
5295 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5296 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5297 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5298 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5299 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5300 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5301
5302 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5303 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5304 verification failure".
5305
5306 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5307 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5308 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5309 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5310
5311 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5312 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5313 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5314 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5315 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5316 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5317 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5318 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5319 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5320 treated as a timeout.
5321
5322 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5323 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5324 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5325 not set for Exim filters).
5326
5327 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5328 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5329 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5330
5331 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5332
5333 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5334 try to make them clearer.
5335
5336 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5337 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5338
5339 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5340
5341 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5342
534310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5344 only the Cygwin environment.
5345
534611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5347 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5348 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5349 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5350 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5351
535212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5353 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5354 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5355 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5356 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5357 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5358 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5359
536013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5361 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5362
536314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5364
5365 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5366 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5367 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5368
5369 To: susanne@some.where
5370
5371 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5372 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5373 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5374 of addresses in From: header lines).
5375
5376 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5377 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5378 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5379
5380 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5381 treated as non-personal.
5382
5383 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5384 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5385
538615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5387
538816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5389
539017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5391 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5392 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5393
539418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5395 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5396
539719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5398 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5399 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5400 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5401 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5402 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5403
540420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5405 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5406 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5407 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5408 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5409 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5410 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5411 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5412
5413 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5414
541521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5416 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5417
541822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5419 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5420 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5421
542223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5423 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5424
542524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5426 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5427 rather than long int.
5428
542925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5430
543126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5432
5433
5434Exim version 4.41
5435-----------------
5436
5437 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5438 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5439 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5440 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5441 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5442 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5443
5444
5445Exim version 4.40
5446-----------------
5447
5448 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5449 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5450
5451 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5452 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5453 socklen_t is defined.
5454
5455 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5456 always exist.
5457
5458 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5459 configured.
5460
5461 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5462 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5463 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5464 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5465 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5466
5467 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5468 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5469 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5470 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5471
5472 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5473 of flapping under certain conditions.
5474
5475 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5476 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5477 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5478
5479 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5480
548110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5482
548311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5484 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5485 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5486 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5487
548812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5489 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5490 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5491 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5492 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5493 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5494 preserved with the message after it was received.
5495
549613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5497 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5498 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5499 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5500 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5501 test suite worked just fine.
5502
550314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5504 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5505 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5506
550715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5508 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5509 string.
5510
551116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5512 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5513 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5514 does not fully solve it.
5515
551617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5517 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5518 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5519 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5520 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5521
552218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5523 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5524 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5525
552619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5527 string, for example:
5528
5529 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5530
5531 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5532 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5533 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5534 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5535 the routers could not see them.
5536
553720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5538 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5539
554021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5541 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5542 output).
5543
554422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5545 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5546 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5547 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5548 that needed quoting.
5549
555023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5551 was not being matched caselessly.
5552
555324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5554 backslashes.
5555
555625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5557 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5558 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5559 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5560 when use_sender is false.
5561
556226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5563
556427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5565
556628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5567
556829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5569 the configuration file.
5570
557130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5572 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5573
557431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5575
557632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5577 bytes in the message body.
5578
557933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5580 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5581 delivery.
5582
558334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5584
558535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5586
558736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5588 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5589 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5590 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5591 another IP address.
5592
5593
5594Exim version 4.34
5595-----------------
5596
5597 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5598 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5599
5600 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5601 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5602 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5603 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5604 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5605
5606 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5607 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5608
5609 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5610 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5611 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5612
5613 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5614 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5615 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5616
5617 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5618 for routers.
5619
5620 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5621 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5622 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5623 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5624 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5625 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5626 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5627
5628
5629Exim version 4.33
5630-----------------
5631
5632 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5633 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5634 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5635 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5636 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5637 default (and expected) setting.
5638
5639 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5640 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5641 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5642 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5643
5644 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5645 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5646
5647 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5648 in domain lists.
5649
5650 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5651 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5652 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5653 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5654 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5655 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5656
5657 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5658 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5659 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5660
5661 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5662 part (NOT match_host).
5663
5664 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5665
5666 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5667 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5668 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5669 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5670 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5671 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5672 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5673 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5674 the same named file.
5675
567610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5677 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5678 when Exim is built.
5679
568011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5681 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5682 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5683 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5684 a host name.
5685
568612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5687 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5688 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5689
569013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5691
569214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5693
569415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5695
569616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5697 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5698
569917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5700 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5701 before starting the TLS session.
5702
570318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5704
570519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5706 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5707
570820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5709 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5710 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5711 colon in the middle).
5712
5713
5714Exim version 4.32
5715-----------------
5716
5717 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5718 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5719 multiple configurations are in use.
5720
5721 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5722 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5723 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5724 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5725 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5726 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5727
5728 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5729 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5730
5731 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5732 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5733 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5734
5735 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5736 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5737 occurs.
5738
5739 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5740 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5741
5742 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5743
5744 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5745 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5746
5747 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5748
5749 -prval:sval
5750
5751 is equivalent to
5752
5753 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5754
5755 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5756 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5757 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5758 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5759 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5760
576110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5762 Exim's behaviour:
5763
5764 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5765 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5766 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5767 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5768 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5769 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5770
5771 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5772 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5773 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5774 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5775 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5776 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5777 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5778 string.
5779
5780 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5781 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5782 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5783 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5784 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5785
578611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5787
578812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5789 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5790 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5791
579213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5793
579414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5795 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5796 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5797 information.
5798
579915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5800 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5801
580216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5803 Three changes have been made:
5804
5805 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5806 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5807 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5808 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5809 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5810
5811 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5812 been restored.
5813
5814 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5815 the modified behaviour.
5816
5817
5818Exim version 4.31
5819-----------------
5820
5821 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5822 Larry Rosenman.
5823
5824 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5825 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5826
5827 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5828 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5829 try to track down a specific problem.
5830
5831 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5832 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5833 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5834
5835 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5836 warning.
5837
5838 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5839 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5840 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5841 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5842 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5843 some earlier ones do not.
5844
5845 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5846
5847 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5848 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5849 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5850 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5851 address literals are enabled, of course).
5852
5853 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5854
585510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5856 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5857 by a command such as
5858
5859 exim -f "" ...
5860
5861 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5862
586311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5864
586512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5866 remained set. It is now erased.
5867
586813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5869 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5870
587114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5872 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5873 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5874 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5875 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5876 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5877 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5878 appropriate error code.
5879
588015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5881 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5882 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5883 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5884 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5885 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5886
588716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5888 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5889 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5890
589117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5892 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5893 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5894 terminate the header.
5895
589618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5897 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5898 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5899
590019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5901 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5902 (4.30/29). In particular:
5903
5904 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5905 imposed.
5906
5907 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5908 to write a maildirsize file.
5909
5910 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5911 the transport, the new value overrides.
5912
5913 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5914 count.
5915
591620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5917 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5918 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5919 space or a tab.
5920
592121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5922 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5923 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5924 the fallback hosts.
5925
592622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5927 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5928 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5929
593023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5931 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5932 using a union.
5933
593424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5935 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5936 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5937
593825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5939
594026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5941
594227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5943
594428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5945 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5946 become corrupted.
5947
594829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5949 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5950 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5951 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5952 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5953 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5954 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5955 too great.
5956
595730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5958 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5959 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5960 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5961 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5962 incorrectly.
5963
596431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5965 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5966 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5967 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5968 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5969 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5970 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5971 cached value only when the same options are set.
5972
597332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5974
597533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5976 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5977 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5978 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5979 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5980
598134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5982 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5983 it is clearly obsolete.
5984
598535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5986 transport.
5987
598836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5989 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5990 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5991 times.
5992
599337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5994 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5995 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5996 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5997 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5998
599938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6000 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6001 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6002 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6003
600439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6005
6006 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6007
6008 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6009 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6010 2^31.
6011
601240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6013 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6014 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6015 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6016 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6017 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6018 $localpart_data.
6019
602041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6021 with the -f command-line option.
6022
602342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6024 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6025 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6026 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6027 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6028 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6029
603043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6031 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6032 line.
6033
603444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6035 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6036 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6037 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6038 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6039 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6040 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6041 buffer is too small.
6042
604345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6044 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6045
604646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6047 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6048 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6049 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6050 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6051 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6052 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6053 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6054 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6055
605647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6057 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6058 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6059
606048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6061 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6062 ACL").
6063
606449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6065 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6066 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6067 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6068 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6069
607050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6071 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6072 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6073 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6074 is set.
6075
607651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6077
607852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6079
608053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6081 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6082
608354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6084 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6085 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6086
608755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6088 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6089 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6090 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6091 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6092
609356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6094 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6095 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6096 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6097 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6098 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6099 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6100
610157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6102 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6103 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6104 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6105 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6106 the test of how many are available.
6107
610858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6109 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6110 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6111 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6112 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6113 new message is started.
6114
611559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6116 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6117
611860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6119 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6120
612161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6122 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6123 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6124 is no long logged.
6125
612662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6127 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6128 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6129 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6130 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6131 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6132 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6133
613463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6135 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6136 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6137 interpreted as octal.
6138
613964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6140 setting.
6141
614265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6143 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6144 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6145 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6146 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6147 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6148
614966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6150 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6151 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6152 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6153
6154 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6155 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6156 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6157 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6158
6159 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6160 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6161 is a bug fix.
6162
6163 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6164 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6165
616667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6167
616868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6169 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6170 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6171 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6172
617369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6174 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6175 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6176 supplied", which is not helpful.
6177
617870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6179 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6180 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6181
618271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6183 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6184 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6185 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6186 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6187 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6188 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6189 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6190
619172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6192 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6193 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6194 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6195 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6196
619773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6198 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6199 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6200 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6201 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6202 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6203
620474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6205 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6206 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6207
620875. Added write_rejectlog option.
6209
621076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6211 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6212 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6213 variables.
6214
621577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6216
621778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6218 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6219 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6220 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6221 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6222 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6223 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6224 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6225
622679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6227 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6228 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6229 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6230 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6231
623280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6233 Haardt.
6234
623581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6236 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6237 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6238 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6239 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6240 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6241 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6242 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6243 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6244
6245
6246Exim version 4.30
6247-----------------
6248
6249 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6250 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6251 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6252
6253 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6254 fixed.
6255
6256 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6257 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6258 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6259
6260 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6261 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6262 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6263 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6264 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6265 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6266
6267 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6268 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6269 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6270 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6271 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6272 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6273 the Exim test suite.
6274
6275 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6276 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6277 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6278 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6279
6280 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6281 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6282 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6283 specify it in this variable.
6284
6285 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6286 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6287 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6288 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6289
6290 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6291 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6292 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6293 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6294
6295 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6296 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6297 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6298 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6299 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6300
6301 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6302
630310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6304 they are logged.
6305
630611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6307 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6308 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6309 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6310 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6311
631212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6313 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6314
631513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6316 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6317 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6318 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6319 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6320
632114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6322 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6323
632415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6325 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6326 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6327
632816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6329 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6330
633117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6332 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6333
633418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6335 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6336 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6337
633819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6339 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6340
634120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6342 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6343 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6344 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6345
634621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6347
634822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6349 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6350 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6351 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6352
635323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6354
635524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6356 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6357
635825. Added .include_if_exists.
6359
636026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6361 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6362 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6363 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6364 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6365 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6366
636727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6368
636928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6370 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6371 this.
6372
637329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6374
637530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6376 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6377
6378 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6379 550 Sender verify failed
6380
6381 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6382 the final line of the response.
6383
638431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6385 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6386 all other user lookups.
6387
638832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6389 delivery time.
6390
639133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6392 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6393 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6394 result into an int without checking.
6395
639634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6397 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6398 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6399
640035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6401 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6402 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6403 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6404
640536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6406 correctly.
6407
640837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6409 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6410
641138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6412 to the empty sender.
6413
641439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6415 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6416 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6417 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6418 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6419 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6420 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6421 panic log.
6422
642340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6424 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6425 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6426 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6427 used.
6428
642941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6430 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6431
643242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6433 timestamps.
6434
643543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6436 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6437
643844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6439
644045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6441 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6442 logs.
6443
644446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6445 as soon as it is encountered.
6446
644747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6448
644948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6450 rewritten to "<>".
6451
645249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6453 recognizes a tab character.
6454
645550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6456 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6457 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6458 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6459
646051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6461
646252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6463 crash.
6464
646553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6466
646754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6468
646955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6470 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6471 2822.
6472
647356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6474 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6475 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6476 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6477 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6478
647957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6480 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6481
648258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6483 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6484 list (.included file names were always shown).
6485
648659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6487 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6488 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6489 root at that time.
6490
649160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6492 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6493
649461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6495
649662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6497
649863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6499
650064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6501 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6502 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6503 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6504 failures to open the logs.
6505
650665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6507 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6508 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6509 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6510 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6511 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6512 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6513
6514
6515Exim version 4.24
6516-----------------
6517
6518 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6519 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6520 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6521 change 4.23/1.
6522
6523 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6524 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6525 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6526
6527 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6528 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6529 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6530
6531 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6532 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6533 causing some misleading effects.
6534
6535 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6536 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6537 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6538
6539 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6540 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6541 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6542 queue-runner function directly.
6543
6544
6545Exim version 4.23
6546-----------------
6547
6548 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6549 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6550
6551 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6552 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6553 was always written to the default place.
6554
6555 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6556 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6557 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6558
6559 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6560
6561 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6562
6563 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6564 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6565 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6566
6567 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6568 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6569 must start.
6570
6571 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6572 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6573 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6574
6575 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6576 command line option is disabled.
6577
6578 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6579 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6580
6581 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6582
6583 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6584
6585 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6586 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6587
658810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6589
659011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6591 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6592 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6593 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6594 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6595 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6596
659712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6598 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6599 timeout.
6600
660113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6602 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6603
660414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6605 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6606
660715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6608 received was valid base64.
6609
661016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6611 name of the variable that was being set.
6612
661317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6614
661518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6616 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6617 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6618 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6619 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6620 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6621
662219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6623
662420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6625 nor realm was specified.
6626
662721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6628 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6629 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6630 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6631
663222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6633 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6634 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6635
663623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6637 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6638 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6639
664024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6641 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6642 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6643 some systems use these upper case variants.
6644
664525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6646 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6647 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6648 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6649
665026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6651
665227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6653 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6654
665528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6656 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6657 expansion variable.
6658
665929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6660
666130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6662 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6663 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6664 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6665
666631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6667 using it.
6668
666932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6670 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6671 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6672
667333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6674 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6675
667634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6677 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6678 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6679 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6680
668135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6682 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6683 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6684
668536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6686
668737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6688 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6689 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6690 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6691 aborted.
6692
669338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6694 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6695 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6696
669739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6698
669940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6700 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6701
670241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6703 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6704
670542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6706 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6707 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6708 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6709 when emails are that large.
6710
6711
6712
6713Exim version 4.22
6714-----------------
6715
6716 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6717 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6718
6719 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6720 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6721 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6722
6723 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6724 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6725 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6726
6727 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6728 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6729 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6730 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6731 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6732
6733 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6734 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6735 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6736 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6737 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6738 ever.
6739
6740 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6741 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6742 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6743 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6744 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6745 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6746 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6747 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6748 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6749 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6750 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6751 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6752 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6753 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6754
6755 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6756 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6757 parameterised it.
6758
6759 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6760 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6761 error should be diagnosed.
6762
6763 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6764 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6765 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6766 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6767 appeared instead of "NULL".
6768
676910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6770 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6771 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6772 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6773 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6774 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6775 proceeds).
6776
6777 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6778 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6779 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6780
6781
6782Exim version 4.21
6783-----------------
6784
6785 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6786 or receiver verification errors.
6787
6788 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6789 name.
6790
6791 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6792 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6793 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6794 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6795
6796 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6797 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6798 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6799 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6800 shouldn't happen again.
6801
6802 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6803 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6804 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6805
6806 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6807 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6808
6809 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6810
6811 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6812 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6813
6814 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6815 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6816 RFC.
6817
681810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6819 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6820 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6821
682211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6823 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6824 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6825 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6826
682712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6828 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6829 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6830 to define what should happen).
6831
683213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6833 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6834 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6835
683614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6837
683815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6839
684016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6841 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6842
4c04137d 684317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6844 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6845 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6846 structure in all cases.
6847
6848 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6849 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6850 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6851 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6852
685318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6854 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6855 domain name.
6856
685719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6858 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6859
686020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6861 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6862
686321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6864 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6865 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6866
686722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6868 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6869 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6870
687123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6872 the book and for uniformity.
6873
687424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6875
687625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6877 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6878 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6879 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6880 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6881 non-existent command as the problem.
6882
688326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6884 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6885 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6886
688727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6888
688928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6890 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6891 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6892
689329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6894 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6895 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6896 timestamps using strftime().
6897
689830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6899 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6900
690132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6902 transport-time rewrites.
6903
690433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6905 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6906 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6907 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6908
690934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6910 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6911
691235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6913 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6914 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6915 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6916 comma and a space.
6917
691836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6919 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6920 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6921 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6922 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6923 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6924 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6925
692637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6927 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6928 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6929 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6930 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6931
693238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6933 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6934 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6935 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6936 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6937 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6938 remaining text gets split now.
6939
694039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6941 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6942 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6943 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6944
694540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6946 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6947 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6948 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6949 $return_path.
6950
695141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6952 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6953 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6954 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6955 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6956 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6957 passed through if needed.
6958
695942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6960 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6961 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6962 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6963 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6964 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6965
696643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6967 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6968 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6969 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6970 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6971
697244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6973 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6974 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6975 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6976 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6977
697845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6979 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6980 noticed.
6981
698246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6983 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6984 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6985 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6986 mayhem of various kinds.
6987
698847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6989 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6990 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6991 the right test for positive values.
6992
699348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6994 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6995 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6996 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6997 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6998 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6999 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7000 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7001 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7002 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7003 envelope.
7004
700549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7006 module.
7007
700850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7009 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7010 forbidding it.
7011
701251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7013 the existing equality matching.
7014
701552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7016 dealing with inode numbers.
7017
701853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7019 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7020 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7021
702254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7023 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7024 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7025 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7026 local_scan().
7027
702855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7029 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7030 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7031 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7032 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7033 relay addresses has also been removed.
7034
703556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7036
703757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7038 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7039 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7040
704158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7042 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7043 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7044 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7045 processing applies to CR:
7046
7047 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7048 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7049
7050 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7051 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7052 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7053 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7054
705559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7056 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7057 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7058
705960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7060 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7061 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7062 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7063 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7064 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7065 arisen.
7066
706761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7068 program routers.
7069
707062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7071 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7072 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7073 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7074 adds:
7075
7076 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7077
7078 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7079
7080 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7081
708263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7083 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7084 not considered personal.
7085
708664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7087
708865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7089
709066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7091
709267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7093 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7094 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7095 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7096 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7097 header lines, and spool format errors.
7098
709968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7100 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7101 for more flexibility.
7102
710369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7104 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7105 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7106
710770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7108 Sabourenkov.
7109
711071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7111 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7112 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7113 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7114 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7115 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7116 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7117 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7118 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7119
712072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7121 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7122 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7123 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7124 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7125 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7126 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7127
712873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7129 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7130 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7131
713274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7133 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7134 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7135 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7136 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7137 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7138 instead of killing the process with assert().
7139
714075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7141 than Unicode encoding.
7142
714376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7144 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7145 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7146 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7147
714877. Added process_log_path.
7149
715078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7151 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7152
715379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7154 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7155
715680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7157 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7158 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7159
716081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7161 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7162 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7163 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7164 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7165 were applied:
7166
7167 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7168 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7169 as invalid.
7170
717182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7172 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7173 they will be used during message reception.
7174
7175
7176Exim version 4.20
7177-----------------
7178
7179The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7180
7181****