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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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8Since Exim version 4.90
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11GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
12 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
13 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
14 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
15 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
16 be defined in redis_servers.
17
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18JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
19 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
20 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
21 extant use locations.
22
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23JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
24 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
25
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26JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
27 Previously only the last row was returned.
28
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29JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
30 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
31 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
32 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
33 input.
34
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35JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
36 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
37 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
38 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
39 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
40 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
41 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
42 Main pool for expansions.
43 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
44 active in the testsuite.
45 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
46
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47JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
48 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
49 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
50 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
51 round-robin DNS.
52
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53JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
54 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
55 failure response.
56
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57JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
58 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
59 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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61JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
62 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
63 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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65JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
66 rows affected is given instead).
67
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68JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
69 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
70
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71JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
72 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
73 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
74 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
75 for all multi-message initiating connections.
76
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77JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
78 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
79 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
80
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81JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
82 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
83 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
84 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
85 separate.
86
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87JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
88 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
89 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
90 fake-reject.
91
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92HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
93
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94JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
95 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
96
aab9a843 97PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 98 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 99 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 100
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101JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
102 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
103 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
104 and send a quit.
105
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106JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
107 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
108
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109JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
110 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
111 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
112
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113JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
114 for the build is renamed.
115
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116JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
117 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
118 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
119
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120JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
121 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
122 result replacing the original.
123
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124JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
125 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
126 and the resources needed to be freed.
127
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128JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
129
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130JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
131 was not propagated.
132
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133JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
134 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
135 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
136 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
137
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141
142JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
143 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
144 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
145 pairs of long lines into single ones.
146
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147PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
148 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
149
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150JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
151 This permits better logging.
152
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153JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
154 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
155 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
156 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
157 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 158 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 159
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160JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
161 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
162 "exiwhat" output.
163
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164PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
165 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
166 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
167
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168JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
169 than 255 are no longer allowed.
170
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171JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
172 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
173 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
174 client, there is no benefit for these.
175 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
176 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
177 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
178 is used (3.2.4 +).
179
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180PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
181 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
182
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183JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
184 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
185 erroneously found still-pending ones.
186
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187JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
188 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
189
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190JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
191 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
192 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
193 signature and again for transmission.
194
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195JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
196 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 197 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 198
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199JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
200 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
201 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
202 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
203 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
204 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
205 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
206
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207JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
208 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
209 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 210 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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212PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
213 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
214 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
215 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
216 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
217 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
218 processing options.
219
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220JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
221 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
222 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
223 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
224 connections.
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226PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
227 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
228 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
229 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
230 versions.
231
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232JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
233 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
234 inaccessible.
235
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236JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
237 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
238 banner-time rejection.
239
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240JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
241 callout/hold.
242
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243PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
244 is the name of a transport.
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245 Fixes bug 2140.
246
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247HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
248
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249JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
250 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
251
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252JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
253 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
254 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
255 during compilation.
256
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257JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
258 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
259 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 260 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 261
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262JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
263 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
264 initial verify call returned a defer.
265
ad1a76fe 266JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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267 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
268
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269JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
270 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
271
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272JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
273 if present. Previously it was ignored.
274
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275JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
276 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
277
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278JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
279 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
280 extensible.
281
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282PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
283 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
284
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285PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
286 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
287 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
288
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289JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
290 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
291 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
292 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
293
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294HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
295 and confused the parent.
296
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297JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
298 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
299
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300JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
301 for log purposes.
302
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303JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
304 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
305 out-of-order delivery.
306
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307JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
308 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
309 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
310 error for the HELO.
311
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312JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
313 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
314 desynchronisation.
315
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316JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
317 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
318 one run was done. Bug 2189.
319
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320JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
321 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
322 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
323 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
324 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
325 message is still "Temporary local problem".
326
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327JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
328 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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329 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
330
331HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
332 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
333 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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335JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
336 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
337 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
338 though a different problem.
339
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9427e879 344JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 345 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 346
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347JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
348
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349PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
350 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
351
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352JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
353 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
354
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355JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
356 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
357 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
358 before acknowledging the chunk.
359
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360PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
361 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
362 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
363
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364JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
365 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
366 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
367 should.
368
369JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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370 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
371 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 373JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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374 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
375
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376JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
377 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
378 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
379 body hash calculated value.
380
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381JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
382 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
383 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
384
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385JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
386
387JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
388 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
389
390JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
391 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
392 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
393
394JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
395 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
396 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
397 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
398 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
399 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
400
401JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
402 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
403 past that check, despite the cost.
404
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405JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
406 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
407 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
408
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409PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
410 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
411 TLS library to consume.
412
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413PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
414
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415PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
416
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417JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
418 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
419 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
420 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
421 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
422 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
423 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
424
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425PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
426
427PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
428
429PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
430 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
431 should be warning-free.
432
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433JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
434
435HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
436 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
437
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438HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
439 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
440 general solution here.
441
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442PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
443 already-broken messages in the queue.
444
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445JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
446
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447JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
448
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453JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
454 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 455
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456JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
457 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
458 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
459
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460JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
461 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
462 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
463 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
464 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
465 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
466 if one fails this test.
467 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
468 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
469
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470JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
471 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
472
23bb6982 473JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 474 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 475
0bd1b1ed 476JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 477 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 478
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479JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
480 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
481
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482JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
483 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
484
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485JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
486
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487JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
488 certificate).
489
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490JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
491 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
492 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
493 connection after a verify cache hit.
494 Do not update it with the verify result either.
495
496JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
497 when routing results in more than one destination address.
498
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499JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
500 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
501 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
502 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
503 when the cutthrough connection is made).
504
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505JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
506 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
507
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508JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
509 Previously they were not counted.
510
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511JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
512 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
513 that needed the lookup.
514
4c04137d 515JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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516 distinguished as "(=".
517
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518JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
519 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
520
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521JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
522
523JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
524 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 525
4c04137d 526JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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527 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
528
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529JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
530 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
531 compatible.
532
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533JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
534 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
535 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
536 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
537
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538JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
539
f59aaaaa 540JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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541 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
542 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 543
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544JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
545 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
546 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
547 be lost.
548
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549JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
550 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
551 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
552 itself :(
553
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554JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
555 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
556 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
557
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558JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
559 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
560 options.
561
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562JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
563
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564PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
565 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
566
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567PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
568 are not in the system include path.
569
ad7fc6eb 570JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 571 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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572 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
573 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 574
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575JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
576 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
577 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
578
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579JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
580
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581HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
582 an incoming connection.
583
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584HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
585 to rspamd.
586
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587HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
588 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 589
87cb4a16 590JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 591 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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592
593
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597JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
598 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
599 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
600 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 601
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602TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
603 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
604
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605TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
606 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
607 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
608 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
609 outgoing I= field.
610
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611JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
612 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
613 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
614 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
615 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
616 check on the next write.
617
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618HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
619 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
620 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
621 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
622 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
623
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624JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
625 mime_regex ACL conditions.
626
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627JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
628 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
629 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
630
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631JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
632 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
633 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
634 an authenticate fail is not an error.
635
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636HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
637 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
638
4c04137d 639JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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640 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
641
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642JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
643 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
644 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
645 distinct.
646
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647JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
648
649JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
650
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651JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
652
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653JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
654 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
655
98b98887 656JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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657 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
658
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659JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
660
858e91c2
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661JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
662 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
663
664JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
665
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666JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
667 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
668
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669JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
670
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671JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
672 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 673 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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674 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
675 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
676 they will retry in-clear.
677 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
678 at installation time.
679
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680HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
681 with the $config_file variable.
682
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683JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
684 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
685 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
686 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 687 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 688
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689GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
690 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
691 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
692 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
693 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
694
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695JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
696
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697JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
698 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
699 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
700 list order is no longer honoured.
701
4c04137d 702JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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703 for DKIM processing.
704
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705JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
706 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 707
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708JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
709 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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710 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
711 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 712
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713JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
714 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
715
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716JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
717 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
718
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719JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
720 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
721
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722JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
723
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724JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
725 cached by the daemon.
726
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727JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
728 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
729
379ba7d0
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730JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
731 keys are given for lookup.
732
f444c2c7
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733JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
734 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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735 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
736 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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738JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
739 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
740 server-side so match that on older versions.
741
07c73177 742JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 743 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 744 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 745
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746JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
747 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
748
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749JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
750 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
751 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 752 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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753 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
754 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
755 initial truncated version.
756
ab9152ff 757JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 758
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759JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
760
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761JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
762 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
763
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764JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
765
bc3c7bb7 766HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 767
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768JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
769 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
770 induced overflows.
771
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772JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
773 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
774 stage.
775
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776JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
777 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
778
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779JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
780 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
781 former class.
782
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783JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
784 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
785 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
786
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787JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
788 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
789 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
790 extraction. Accept either.
791
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796JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
797 expanded.
798
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799JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
800
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801JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
802 it.
803
01a4a5c5 804JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 805 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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806 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
807 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
808
cb1d7830 809JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 810 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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811 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
812
610ff438 813JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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814 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
815 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
816 TLS connections
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818JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
819 sites use this now.
820
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821JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
822 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
823 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
824 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
825 have a dsn_lasthop option.
826
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827JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
828 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 829 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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831JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
832
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833JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
834 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
835
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836JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
837 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
838
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839JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
840 /defer_ok option.
841
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842JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
843 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
844
fd4d8871 845JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 846 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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847 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
848
849JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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850 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
851 specify a port-range.
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853JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
854 timeout value per server.
855
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856JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
857 now have the list separator specified.
858
8a512ed5 859JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 860 option values.
8a512ed5 861
82c0c8ea 862JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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863 under OpenSSL.
864
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865JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
866
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867JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
868 rather than the verbs used.
869
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870JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
871 from 255 to 1024 chars.
872
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873JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
874
cfab9d68 875HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 876 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 877
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878JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
879 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
880
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881HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
882 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
883
4c04137d 884JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 885
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886JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
887
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888JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
889 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 890 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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891 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
892
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893JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
894
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895JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
896 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
897
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898JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
899 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
900
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901JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
902
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903JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
904
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905JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
906
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907JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
908 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
909
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910JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
911 added for tls authenticator.
912
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913HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
914
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919TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
920 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
921 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
922 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
923 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
924 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
925 the script parsing/test process like normal.
926
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927TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
928 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
929 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
930 function when detected.
931
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932JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
933 cause callback expansion.
934
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935TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
936 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
937 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
938 instead of bool when processing it.
939
0f06b4f2 940JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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942
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943JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
944
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945JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
946
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947TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
948
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949TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
950 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 951
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952JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
953 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
954 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
955 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 956 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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957 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
958
8bc732e8
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959JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
960 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
961 exceeded it.
962
a7fec7a7
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963JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
964 version 3.3.6 or later.
965
4c04137d 966JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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967 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
968 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 969 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
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970 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
971 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
972 option is defined.
774ef2d7 973
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974TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
975 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
976
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977JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
978 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
979 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
980 matches.
981
e9477a08
JH
982JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
983 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
984 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
985
ad4c5ff9
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986JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
987 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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988
989JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
990 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
991 syntax errors.
992
3394b36a 993JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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994
995JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
996 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
997
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998TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
999 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1000 tarball.
1001
ad4c5ff9
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1002JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1003
4c04137d 1004JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1005 Bug 1561.
1006
1007JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1008 output list separator was used.
1009
8bc732e8 1010
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1011Exim version 4.84
1012-----------------
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1013TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1014 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1015 return.
1f0ebb98 1016
a612424f 1017JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1018 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1019
1020JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1021
1022TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1023 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1024
1f0ebb98 1025
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1026Exim version 4.83
1027-----------------
1028
1029TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1030
1031 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1032 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1033 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1034 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1035 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1036 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1037
7245734e
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1038TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1039 utilities have not been installed.
1040
fd5dad68
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1041JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1042 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1043
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1044TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1045 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1046
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1047TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1048 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1049 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1050 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1051
aa26e137
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1052JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1053
5a1b8443
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1054TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1055 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1056
72c9e342
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1057PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1058 not dns_use_dnssec.
1059
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1060JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1061
770747fd
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1062TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1063 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1064 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1065
8ddef691 1066TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1067 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1068 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1069 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1070 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1071 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1072
b9c2e32f
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1073JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1074
e45a1c37
JH
1075JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1076 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1077
67d81c10
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1078JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1079 failed delivery.
1080
b1f8e4f8
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1081JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1082
511a6c14 1083JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1084
1085JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1086 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1087
51c7471d
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1088JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1089 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1090
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1091TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1092
1e06383a
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1093JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1094
76146973
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1095JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1096 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1097
1098 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1099 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1100 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1101
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1102TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1103 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1104 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1105 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1106
35aba663
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1107JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1108
8c51eead 1109JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
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1110 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1111 lookup).
8c51eead 1112
deae092e
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1113TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1114 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1115 Schlichting.
35aba663 1116
fd3b6a4a 1117JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1118 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1119
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1120TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1121 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1122
2b4a568d
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1123JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1124
d2af03f4
HS
1125TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1126 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1127 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1128
9d1c15ef
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1129JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1130 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1131
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1132JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1133 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1134 hosts_request_ocsp.
1135
ed3bba5f 1136JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1137 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1138 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1139
8ccd00b1
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1140JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1141
8ded8589
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1142TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1143 Christian Aistleitner.
1144
f2de3a33
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1145JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1146
6eb02f88
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1147TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1148 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1149
00bff6f6
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1150JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1151 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1152
071c51f7
JH
1153JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1154 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1155
a6d4c44e
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1156TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1157 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1158
3ae173e7
ACK
1159TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1160 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1161
c13d09b8
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1162TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1163 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1164 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1165
0df4ab80
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1166JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1167
66be95e0
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1168PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1169 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1170 Jasper Wallace.
1171
1bd0d12b
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1172JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1173
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1174TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1175 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1176 CVE-2014-2972
1177
fd3b6a4a 1178
2c422e6f 1179Exim version 4.82
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1180-----------------
1181
1182PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1183
12f69989
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1184PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1185 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1186
54c90be1
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1187PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1188 by GnuTLS.
1189
1f4a55da
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1190PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1191 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1192 routines.
1193
13363eba 1194PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1195
66645890 1196PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1197 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1198 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1199 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1200 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1201
a3fb9793 1202PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1203 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1204 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1205 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1206 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1207 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1208
d27f98fe 1209TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1210
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1211TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1212
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1213TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1214 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1215
ae0e32ee 1216TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1217 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1218 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1219
1220TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1221
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1222TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1223
83712b39
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1224TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1225 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1226
976b7e9f
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1227JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1228
be4a1376
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1229JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1230
ec4b68e5
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1231PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1232
d7148a07
NM
1233NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1234 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1235
585121e2 1236JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1237
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1238PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1239 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1240 function.
a5f239e4 1241
13d08c90
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1242PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1243 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1244
bef3ea7f
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1245JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1246 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1247 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1248
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1249JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1250
3a796370
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1251JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1252
ea722490 1253JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1254 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1255
b1b05573
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1256JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1257 Bugzilla 884.
1258
362145b5
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1259JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1260 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1261
3c0a92dc
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1262JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1263 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1264
6d7c6175
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1265PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1266 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1267 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1268
6f123593
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1269JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1270 authenticators.
1271
c8e2fc1e
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1272JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1273 for control.
1274
005ac57f
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1275PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1276
3f1df0e3
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1277PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1278 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1279 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1280 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1281
67bd1ab3
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1282TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1283
1284 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1285 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1286 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1287 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1288 the retry rules.
1289
1290 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1291 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1292 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1293
1294 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1295 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1296 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1297 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1298
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1299 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1300 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1301 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1302 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1303 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1304 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1305 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1306
1307 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1308 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1309
326cdc37
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1310TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1311
1312 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1313
1314 Resent-From: f
1315
1316 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1317 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1318 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1319 username as equal to the username.
1320
1321 This change corrects that bug.
1322
f62514b3
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1323GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1324 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1325 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1326
eb505532
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1327TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1328
14c7b357
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1329PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1330 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1331 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1332 NULL dereference and crash.
1333
94eaf700
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1334JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1335
6f5a440a
PP
1336PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1337 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1338 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1339
514ee161
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1340SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1341
fd98a5c6
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1342JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1343 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1344 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1345 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1346 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1347 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1348 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1349 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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1350 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1351 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1352 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1353
035c7f1e
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1354PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1355 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1356
ff284120
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1357PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1358 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1359 Bugzilla 880.
1360
26e72755
PP
1361PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1362 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1363 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1364 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1365 an empty string is now equivalent.
1366
0fbd9bff
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1367PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1368 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1369 not performing validation itself.
1370
700d22f3
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1371PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1372 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1373
fcc8e047
JH
1374JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1375 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1376
4c04137d 1377TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1378
8c020188
PP
1379PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1380 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1381 other false fix of the same issue.
1382 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1383 Bugzilla 1363.
1384
d13cdd30
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1385PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1386 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1387
e2fbf4a2
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1388PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1389 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1390 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1391
f4c1088b
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1392PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1393 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1394 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1395
c5c2182f
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1396TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1397
73431ca9
JH
1398JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1399
2d07a215
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1400TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1401 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1402
a30a8861
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1403TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1404 Alexander Miroch.
1405
33382dd9
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1406TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1407 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1408 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1409 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1410 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1411
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1412TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1413 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1414
581d7bee 1415TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1416 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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1417 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1418
1419TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1420 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1421 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1422 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1423
237b2cf2
TL
1424TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1425
9fc5a352
TL
1426TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1427 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1428 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1429
b10e4ec2
TL
1430TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1431
e2cebd74
TL
1432TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1433 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1434 interaction.
1435
1436TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1437 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1438
2519e60d
TL
1439TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1440 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1441
e78e6ecf 1442
4263f395
PP
1443Exim version 4.80.1
1444-------------------
1445
1446PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1447 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1448 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1449
ea722490 1450
b1770b6e 1451Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1452-----------------
1453
1454PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1455 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1456 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1457
23c7e742
NM
1458NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1459
b322aac8
NM
1460NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1461 improved.
1462
4a891427
NM
1463NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1464
c1e794ba 1465PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1466
97753960
PP
1467PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1468
1469PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1470 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1471
df6303fa
PP
1472PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1473 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1474
7e6a8985
PP
1475PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1476 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1477
f1e05cc7 1478PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1479 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1480 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1481
4c287009
PP
1482PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1483
b98bb9ac
PP
1484PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1485 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1486
4a6a987a
PP
1487PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1488
c45dd180 1489PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1490
7db8d074
PP
1491PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1492 non-compliant senders.
1493 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1494
eae0036b 1495NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1496 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1497 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1498
dec5017e
PP
1499PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1500 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1501 in spool file corruption.
1502
c80c5570
PP
1503PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1504 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1505 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1506 "Got SSL error 2".
1507
076b11e2
PP
1508TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1509 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1510 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1511
5407bfff
JH
1512JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1513 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1514
9e45c72b
PP
1515JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1516
e74376d8
PP
1517PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1518 diagnostics.
1519 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1520
4c04137d 1521PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1522 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1523 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1524
7be682ca
PP
1525PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1526 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1527 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1528 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1529
ef840681
PP
1530PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1531 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1532
5bfb4cdf
PP
1533PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1534 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1535 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1536 resolver implementation change.
1537
c6e95d22
PP
1538PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1539 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1540
9cbad13b
PP
1541PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1542
9ee44efb
PP
1543PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1544
6a6084f8
PP
1545PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1546 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1547
12dd53c7
PP
1548PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1549 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1550
9e45c72b 1551JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1552 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1553
17c76198
PP
1554PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1555 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1556 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1557 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1558 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1559
53947857 1560PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1561
eae0036b 1562PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1563 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1564 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1565
9e45c72b 1566JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1567
7390e768
PP
1568PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1569 read-only, out of scope).
1570 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1571
08488c86
PP
1572PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1573 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1574 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1575 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1576
6475bd82
PP
1577PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1578
81f91683
PP
1579PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1580 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1581 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1582 real issues in debug logging.
1583
5779e6aa
PP
1584PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1585 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1586
3375e053
PP
1587PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1588 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1589 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1590
1591PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1592 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1593 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1594 problems.
3375e053 1595
9d26b8c0
PP
1596PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1597 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1598
57eb9e91 1599PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1600 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1601 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1602 needs to override this, it can.
1603
16880d1a
PP
1604PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1605 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1606 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1607
a799883d
PP
1608PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1609 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1610 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1611 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1612
3ecab157 1613PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1614
0599f9cf 1615
867fcbf5
PP
1616Exim version 4.77
1617-----------------
1618
1619PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1620 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1621
f1a29782
TF
1622TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1623
ab42bd23
TK
1624TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1625 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1626
0ca0cf52
TF
1627TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1628 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1629
921b12ca
TF
1630TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1631 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1632 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1633
1634 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1635 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1636 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1637 not safe for signals.
1638
1639 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1640 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1641 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1642 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1643 exiwhat.
1644
c99ce5c9
TF
1645TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1646
1647 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1648 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1649 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1650 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1651 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1652
1653 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1654 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1655 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1656 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1657 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1658 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1659
1660 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1661 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1662 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1663 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1664
1665 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1666 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1667 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1668 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1669
1670 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1671 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1672 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1673 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1674 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1675 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1676 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1677 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1678 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1679
1680 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1681 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1682 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1683 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1684
1685 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1686 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1687 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1688 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1689 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1690 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1691 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1692 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1693 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1694 details in the main documentation.
1695
3634fc25
TF
1696TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1697
792e8a19
TF
1698TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1699
5901f0ab
TF
1700TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1701 repository when doing development or release builds.
1702
7f2a2a43
PP
1703PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1704 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1705
061b7ebd
PP
1706PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1707 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1708 Bugzilla 97.
1709
e12f8c32
PP
1710PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1711
9e949f00 1712PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1713 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1714
1715PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1716 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1717
555ae6af 1718PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1719 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1720
1721PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1722 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1723
6f7fe114
PP
1724PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1725 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1726
c566dd90
PP
1727PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1728 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1729 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1730 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1731
d6cc7c78 1732PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1733 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1734 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1735
0d0e4455
PP
1736PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1737
3399bb60 1738PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1739
1740PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1741 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1742
0ca0cf52 1743
10906672
PP
1744Exim version 4.76
1745-----------------
1746
1747PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1748
754a0503
PP
1749PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1750 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1751
c0c7b2da
PP
1752PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1753
e97d1f08
PP
1754PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1755
084c1d8c
PP
1756PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1757 Bugzilla 1098.
1758
4e7ee012
PP
1759PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1760 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1761
c8d52a00
PP
1762TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1763 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1764
54e7ce4a
PP
1765PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1766 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1767
5ee6f336
PP
1768PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1769 Bugzilla 1104.
1770
c8d52a00 1771TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1772 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1773
1774TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1775 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1776 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1777 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1778
1779PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1780 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1781
10906672 1782
aa097c4c
NM
1783Exim version 4.75
1784-----------------
1785
4c04137d 1786NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1787 Bugzilla 1073
1788
7f3d9eff
TF
1789TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1790 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1791 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1792
159f52d2
TF
1793TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1794 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1795
0cc9542a
PP
1796PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1797 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1798 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1799
f7274286
PP
1800PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1801 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1802
7b797365
PP
1803PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1804 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1805
caacae52
NM
1806NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1807 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1808
09dcaba9
NM
1809NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1810 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1811
bc19a55b
PP
1812PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1813 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1814
bd4c9759
NM
1815NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1816 Fixes bug 943.
1817
b72aab72
PP
1818PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1819 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1820
2fe76745
PP
1821PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1822 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1823
76aa570c
PP
1824PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1825 SQL string expansion failure details.
1826 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1827
f1e5fef5
PP
1828PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1829 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1830
4d805ee9
PP
1831PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1832 extern declarations in function scope.
1833 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1834
cd59ab18
PP
1835PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1836 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1837 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1838 a kernel bug).
1839
332f5cf3
PP
1840PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1841 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1842
29cfeb94
PP
1843PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1844 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1845
660242ad
PP
1846PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1847 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1848
bc4bc4c5
PP
1849PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1850 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1851
2e64baa9
NM
1852NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1853 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1854 Dennis Davis.
1855
4c04137d 1856PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1857
6bac1a9a
PP
1858PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1859
552193f0
NM
1860NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1861 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1862
1b587e48
TF
1863TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1864 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1865
aa097c4c 1866
8c07b69f
TF
1867Exim version 4.74
1868-----------------
1869
1870TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1871 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1872
c0ea85ab
TF
1873TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1874 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1875
0761d44e
TF
1876TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1877
0a349494
PP
1878DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1879 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1880 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1881
1882PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1883 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1884 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1885
fea24b2e
PP
1886PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1887 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1888 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1889 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1890
6545de78
PP
1891PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1892 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1893 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1894 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1895
1670ef10
PP
1896PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1897 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1898 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1899 arbitrary files.
1900
c0886197
PP
1901PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1902 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1903
b7487bce
PP
1904PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1905 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1906 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1907 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1908 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1909
8c07b69f 1910
97fd1e48 1911Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1912-----------------
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1913
1914PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1915 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1916 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1917
6901c596
PP
1918PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1919 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1920
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1921JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1922
77bb000f
PP
1923PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1924
a29e5231
PP
1925PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1926
ec5a0394 1927PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1928
55c75993
PP
1929PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1930
453a6645 1931PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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1932 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1933 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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1934 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1935
8544e77a
PP
1936PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1937 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1938 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1939 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1940 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1941
83e029d5
PP
1942PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1943
ed7f7860
PP
1944PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1945
7d9f747b
PP
1946PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1947
4b2241d2
PP
1948PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1949
10385c15
PP
1950PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1951
dbc4b90d
PP
1952PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1953
532be449
PP
1954PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1955
6a8de854 1956PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1957 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1958 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1959
5dc43717
JJ
1960JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1961
1962JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1963 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1964
3346ab01
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1965PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1966 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1967
491fab4c
PP
1968PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1969 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1970 Notification from John Horne.
1971
13eb9497
PP
1972PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1973 compatible.
1974
1975PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1976 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1977 it normally works.
1978
7f36d675
DW
1979DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1980 access.
1981
c1d94452
DW
1982DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1983 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1984 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1985
e2f5dc15
DW
1986DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1987 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1988 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1989 configuration file.
1990
cd25e41d
DW
1991DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1992 option (effectively making it always true).
1993
261dc43e
DW
1994DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1995 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1996
fa32850b
DW
1997DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1998 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1999
79d4bc3d
PP
2000PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2001 run-time user, instead of root.
2002
43236f35 2003PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2004 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2005
fb08281f
DW
2006DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2007 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2008 arguments.
3346ab01 2009
74935b98
DW
2010DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2011 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2012 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2013
90b6341f
DW
2014DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2015
57730b52
ML
2016NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2017
66581d1e 2018
465e92cf
JJ
2019Exim version 4.72
2020-----------------
2021
453a6645
PP
2022JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2023 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2024 typos
465e92cf 2025
453a6645
PP
2026JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2027 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2028 (Finput)
edae0343 2029
9bd3e22c
NM
2030NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2031 Patch from Alain Williams
2032
bb576ff7
NM
2033NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2034
5a1a5845
NM
2035NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2036 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2037
981a9fad
NM
2038NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2039 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2040
7fc497ee
NM
2041NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2042
1a41defa
JJ
2043JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2044
a466095c 2045NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2046 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2047
94a6bd0b
NM
2048TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2049
2050TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2051
2052MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2053 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2054 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2055
c1b141a8
NM
2056NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2057 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2058
b26eacf1 2059NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2060 Patch by Simon Arlott
2061
179c5980 2062PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2063 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2064
9bd3e22c 2065
7c6d71af
NM
2066Exim version 4.71
2067-----------------
2068
7d9f747b 2069TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2070
f013fb92
NM
2071NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2072
0eb8eedd
NM
2073NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2074
663ee6d9
NM
2075NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2076
177ebd9b
NM
2077NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2078
7c6d71af 2079
210f147e
NM
2080Exim version 4.70
2081-----------------
2082
cdd3bb85 2083TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2084 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2085
2086TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2087 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2088 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2089
2090TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2091 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2092 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2093
2094TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2095 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2096
210f147e
NM
2097NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2098 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2099 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2100 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2101
deafd5b3
NM
2102NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2103 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2104 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2105
089793a4
TF
2106TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2107
5f16ca82
TF
2108TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2109
dae9d94e 2110NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2111 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2112
7d9f747b 2113NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2114
06864c44
TF
2115TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2116 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2117 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2118 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2119
65a7d8c3 2120NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2121 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2122
23510047 2123TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2124
7d9f747b 2125NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2126
7d8eec3a 2127NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2128 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2129
89dec7b6
TF
2130TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2131 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2132
a99de90c
TF
2133TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2134 that they are available at delivery time.
2135
e2803e40
TF
2136TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2137
7199e1ee
TF
2138TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2139 incoming_port log selectors.
2140
e276e04b
TF
2141TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2142 setting expands to an empty string.
2143
ce552449 2144NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2145 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2146
e765a0f1 2147NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2148 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2149
4f054c63 2150NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2151 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2152
7d9f747b
PP
2153NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2154 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2155
7d9f747b
PP
2156NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2157 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2158
b52bc06e 2159NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2160 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2161
447de4b0
NM
2162NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2163
4c69d561 2164NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2165 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2166
d5c39246 2167NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2168 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2169
0b23848a
TK
2170TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2171
8f3414a1 2172NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2173 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2174
fb6f955d
NM
2175NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2176
2177NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2178
7d9f747b
PP
2179NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2180 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2181
7d9f747b
PP
2182NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2183 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2184
7d9f747b
PP
2185NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2186 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2187
7d9f747b
PP
2188NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2189 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2190
7d9f747b
PP
2191NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2192 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2193
7d9f747b
PP
2194NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2195 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2196
7d9f747b
PP
2197NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2198 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2199
7d9f747b 2200NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2201 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2202
7d9f747b 2203NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2204
7d9f747b
PP
2205NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2206 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2207
7d9f747b 2208NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2209
7d9f747b 2210NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2211
7d9f747b 2212NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2213
7d9f747b 2214NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2215
17792b53 2216NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2217 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2218
7d9f747b
PP
2219NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2220 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2221
91576cec 2222NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2223 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2224
7d9f747b
PP
2225NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2226 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2227
7d9f747b 2228NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2229
7d9f747b 2230NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2231
7d9f747b 2232NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2233
7d9f747b 2234NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2235
deafd5b3 2236
47db1125
NM
2237Exim version 4.69
2238-----------------
2239
4b3504d0
TK
2240TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2241 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2242 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2243
2244 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2245 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2246 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2247 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2248 build errors in sieve.c.
2249
81ea09ca
NM
2250NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2251 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2252 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2253
f13cddcb
SC
2254SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2255
7d9f747b 2256NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2257
7d9f747b 2258NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2259
7d9f747b 2260NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2261
2262
eb4c0de6
PH
2263Exim version 4.68
2264-----------------
2265
2266PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2267
6a3bceb1
PH
2268PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2269 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2270 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2271 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2272 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2273 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2274 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2275 for iplsearch lookups.
2276
2277 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2278 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2279 previously such lookups could never work.
2280
4c04137d 2281 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2282 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2283 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2284
2e30fa9d
TK
2285TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2286 version.
2287
0806a9c5
MH
2288MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2289 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2290 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2291 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2292 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2293 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2294
ae276964
TK
2295TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2296 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2297
0f2cbd1b
MH
2298MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2299 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2300 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2301 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2302 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2303 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2304
2b85bce7
PH
2305PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2306 local_scan API.
2307
93655c46
PH
2308PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2309
6c512171
PH
2310PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2311 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2312 encrypted.
2313
2314PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2315 by clients under certain conditions.
2316
aa6dc513
PH
2317PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2318 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2319
a96603a0
PH
2320PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2321
8f240103
PH
2322PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2323 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2324
2325PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2326
d677b2f2
PH
2327PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2328
d52120f2
PH
2329PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2330
64f2600a
PH
2331PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2332 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2333
8669f003
PH
2334PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2335
a4dc33a8
PH
2336PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2337 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2338
d6a60c0f
PH
2339PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2340
8f128379
PH
2341PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2342
8932dffe
PH
2343PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2344 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2345 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2346 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2347
ddea74fa 2348PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2349 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2350 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2351
ddea74fa 2352PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2353 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2354
ddea74fa
PH
2355PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2356
ce9f225c
PH
2357PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2358
19897d52
PH
2359PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2360
bc64a74d
PH
2361PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2362 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2363 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2364
eb4c0de6 2365
b4ed4da0
PH
2366Exim version 4.67
2367-----------------
2368
22ad45c9
MH
2369MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2370 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2371 Jan Srzednicki.
2372
b4ed4da0
PH
2373PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2374 issue a MAIL command.
2375
431b7361
PH
2376PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2377
2378 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2379
2380 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2381 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2382 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2383 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2384 item. This has been fixed.
2385
2386PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2387 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2388
83da1223
PH
2389PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2390 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2391
54fc8428
PH
2392PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2393 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2394 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2395
34c5e8dd
SC
2396SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2397
bbe15da8
PH
2398PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2399 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2400 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2401 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2402 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2403
0e8a9471
MH
2404MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2405 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2406 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2407
f0872424
PH
2408PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2409 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2410 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2411 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2412
b01dd148
PH
2413PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2414
6bf342e1
PH
2415PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2416
273f34d0
PH
2417PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2418 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2419 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2420 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2421 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2422
cf8b11a5
PH
2423PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2424
41c7c167
PH
2425PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2426 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2427 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2428 values).
2429
9c57cbc0
PH
2430PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2431
f3f065bb
PH
2432PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2433
047bdd8c
PH
2434PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2435
0ce9abe6
PH
2436PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2437
0e22dfd1
PH
2438PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2439
4c590bd1
PH
2440PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2441 no_callout_flush is set.
2442
09945f1e
PH
2443PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2444 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2445 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2446 fixed.
2447
c51b8e75
PH
2448PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2449
e28326d8 2450PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2451 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2452 other ACL rejections are.
2453
75b1493f
PH
2454PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2455 with slight modification.
2456
7c5214ec
PH
2457PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2458 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2459
4311097e
PH
2460PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2461 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2462 connection.
2463
29f89cad
PH
2464PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2465 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2466
5e687460
SC
2467SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2468
c3611384
PH
2469PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2470 expansion side effects.
2471
5a11a7b4
PH
2472PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2473 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2474 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2475 be the same.
2476
0e20aff9
MH
2477MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2478 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2479 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2480
ca86f471
PH
2481PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2482 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2483 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2484 were accidentally chopped off.
2485
a14e5636
PH
2486PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2487 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2488 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2489 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2490 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2491 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2492 pipelining has not been advertised.
2493
ec95d1a6
PH
2494PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2495
42855d71
PH
2496PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2497 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2498 This has been fixed.
2499
57c2c631
PH
2500PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2501 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2502 reported on Solaris.
2503
58c01c94
PH
2504PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2505 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2506 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2507 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2508 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2509 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2510 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2511
dee5a20a
PH
2512PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2513 cpus.
2514
d2ee6114
PH
2515PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2516
b2d5182b
PH
2517PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2518
79749a79
PH
2519PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2520 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2521 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2522 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2523 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2524 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2525
c456d9bb
PH
2526PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2527 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2528 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2529 host_all_ignored option.
2530
cd9868ec
PH
2531PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2532 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2533 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2534 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2535 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2536 is what is supposed to happen).
2537
ebeaf996
PH
2538PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2539 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2540 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2541 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2542 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2543 uses the Exim user.
2544
2679d413
PH
2545PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2546 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2547 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2548 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2549 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2550 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2551 users.
2552
84024b72
PH
2553PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2554
8005d38e
SC
2555SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2556 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2557 (Jez Hancock).
2558 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2559 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2560
3298c6c6
SC
2561SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2562
a43a27c5
PH
2563PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2564
58eb016e 2565PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2566 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2567 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2568 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2569 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2570 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2571 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2572 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2573 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2574 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2575 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2576
b43a74ea
PH
2577PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2578 advertised in response to EHLO.
2579
b4ed4da0 2580
5dd1517f
PH
2581Exim version 4.66
2582-----------------
2583
2584PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2585 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2586
2587 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2588 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2589
2590 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2591 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2592 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2593
2594 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2595 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2596 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2597 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2598 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2599
2600
93cfa765
TK
2601Exim version 4.65
2602-----------------
2603
2604TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2605 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2606 versions. (#438)
2607
d6066548
MH
2608MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2609 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2610 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2611
4362ff0d
PH
2612PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2613 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2614 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2615 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2616 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2617 rather than extend the field.
2618
93cfa765 2619
944e9e9c
TF
2620Exim version 4.64
2621-----------------
aa41d2de 2622
21d74bd9
TK
2623TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2624 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2625 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2626 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2627 these files.
2628
2629TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2630 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2631 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2632
2633TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2634 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2635 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2636
2637TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2638 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2639 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2640 in the field name.
2641
2b1c6e3a
PH
2642PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2643 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2644 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2645 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2646 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2647 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2648 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2649 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2650 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2651 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2652 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2653
1f872c80
PH
2654PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2655 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2656
2657PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2658 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2659 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2660 ignores EPIPE as well.
2661
d203e649
PH
2662PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2663 (quoted-printable decoding).
2664
cc2ed8f7 2665PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2666 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2667
ddfcd446
PH
2668PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2669
d45b1de8
PH
2670PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2671
2672PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2673
38a0a95f 2674PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2675 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2676
a2405d83
JJ
2677JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2678 in 4.64-PH/09.
2679
2680JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2681 miscellaneous code fixes
2682
6ea85e9a
PH
2683PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2684 rejections.
2685
26da7e20
PH
2686PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2687 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2688 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2689 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2690 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2691 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2692 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2693 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2694
14aa5a05 2695PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2696 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2697 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2698 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2699 function.
2700 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2701 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2702 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2703 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2704 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2705 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2706 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2707 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2708 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2709
ff75a1f7
PH
2710PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2711 decoding.
2712
e6f6568e
PH
2713PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2714 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2715 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2716 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2717 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2718 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2719 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2720 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2721
d6f6e0dc
PH
2722PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2723 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2724 list.
2725
322050c2
PH
2726PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2727 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2728 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2729 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2730 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2731 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2732 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2733 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2734 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2735 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2736 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2737 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2738 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2739
08955dd3
PH
2740PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2741 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2742 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2743 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2744 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2745 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2746 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2747
1eccaa59
PH
2748PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2749 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2750 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2751 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2752 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2753 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2754 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2755 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2756 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2757 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2758
602e59e5
PH
2759PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2760 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2761 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2762 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2763 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2764
411ef850
PH
2765PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2766 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2767 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2768 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2769 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2770 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2771 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2772
7befa435
PH
2773PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2774 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2775 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2776 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2777 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2778 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2779 been verified.
2780
48da4259 2781PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2782 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2783 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2784 and authorization.)
2785
48da4259
PH
2786PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2787 if any retry times were supplied.
2788
d1d5595c
PH
2789PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2790 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2791 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2792
0ef732d9
PH
2793PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2794
328895cc
PH
2795PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2796
fd700877
PH
2797PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2798 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2799 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2800 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2801 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2802 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2803
8dce1a6f
PH
2804PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2805 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2806
17af4a17
PH
2807PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2808 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2809 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2810
2811PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2812 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2813 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2814 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2815 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2816 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2817 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2818 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2819 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2820
2821 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2822 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2823 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2824 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2825 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2826 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2827 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2828 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2829 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2830
2831 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2832 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2833 hammering the server.
2834
c1114884
PH
2835PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2836 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2837
7a0743eb
PH
2838PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2839
0d85fa3f
PH
2840PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2841 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2842 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2843
1bf43b78
PH
2844PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2845 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2846 one case where this was not true.
2847
520de300
PH
2848PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2849 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2850 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2851 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2852 fails.
2853
48c7f9e2
PH
2854PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2855 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2856 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2857 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2858 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2859 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2860 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2861 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2862 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2863 smtp transport.
2864
99ea1c86
PH
2865PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2866 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2867 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2868 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2869
a2042e78
PH
2870PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2871 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2872
4fbcfc2e
PH
2873PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2874 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2875 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2876
aa41d2de
PH
2877PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2878
af561417
PH
2879PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2880
3cc66b45
PH
2881PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2882
194cc0e4
PH
2883PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2884 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2885 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2886 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2887
a401ddaa
PH
2888PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2889 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2890
4e88a19f
PH
2891PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2892 be meaningful with "accept".
2893
d7d7b289
SC
2894SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2895 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2896
2897SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2898 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2899 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2900
2901SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2902 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2903 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2904 there is data to show.
2905 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2906
2907SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2908 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2909 as well as the number of messages.
2910
2911SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2912 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2913 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2914
2915SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2916 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2917 have a flag are now skipped.
2918
2919SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2920 Added the -emptyok flag.
2921
2922SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2923 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2924
0ea2a468
JJ
2925JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2926 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2927 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2928
2929JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2930 match 4.64-PH/13
2931
2932JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2933 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2934
2935JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2936
2937JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2938 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2939
8a10f5a4
PH
2940PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2941
30e18802
PH
2942PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2943 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2944 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2945 contravention of the specifications.
2946
55728a4f
PH
2947PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2948 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2949 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2950
d7837193
PH
2951PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2952 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2953 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2954
87054a31
PH
2955PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2956
ea2c01d2
MH
2957MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2958 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2959 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2960 some point in the past.
2961
e4fa6968
PH
2962PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2963 transport during callout processing was broken.
2964
56f5d9bd
PH
2965PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2966 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2967
922e1c28
PH
2968PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2969 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2970
21eb6e72
PH
2971PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2972 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2973
a0540757
PH
2974PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2975
944e9e9c 2976
478be7b0
SC
2977Exim version 4.63
2978-----------------
2979
2980SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2981 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2982
2983SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2984 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2985 there is data to show.
2986 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2987
2988SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2989 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2990
2b965a65
TF
2991TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2992 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2993
45b91596
PH
2994TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2995 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2996
c59f5781
TF
2997TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2998 submissions from trusted users.
2999
90fc3069
TF
3000TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3001 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3002
6083aca0
TF
3003TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3004 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3005 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3006 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3007 there is now a framework to start from.
3008
765b530f
PH
3009PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3010 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3011 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3012
4e167a8c
PH
3013PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3014
4608d683
PH
3015PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3016
b8dc3e4a
PH
3017PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3018
5418e93b
PH
3019PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3020 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3021 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3022
b4a9bda2
PH
3023PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3024 libradius.
3025
45b91596
PH
3026PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3027 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3028 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3029
5547e2c5
PH
3030PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3031 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3032 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3033 its arguments.
3034
dbcef0ea
PH
3035PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3036 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3037 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3038 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3039 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3040
25257489
PH
3041PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3042 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3043
c816d124
PH
3044PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3045
a9ccd69a
PH
3046PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3047 operations in malware.c.
3048
75fa1910
PH
3049PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3050 signatures.
3051
a7d7aa58
PH
3052PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3053 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3054 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3055 all.
3056
42119b09
PH
3057PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3058 statements to "add_header".
3059
41609df5
PH
3060PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3061 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3062
a5bd321b
PH
3063PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3064 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3065 latter.
3066
e85a7ad5 3067PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3068 so that it is now:
3069
e85a7ad5
PH
3070 ${if or { \
3071 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3072 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3073 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3074 }{no}{yes}}
3075
e85a7ad5
PH
3076 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3077 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3078
d8fe1c03
PH
3079PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3080 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3081
16282d2b
PH
3082PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3083 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3084 any possible encoding problems.
3085
35d40a98
PH
3086PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3087 but not after initializing Perl.
3088
034d99ab
PH
3089PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3090 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3091 apparently, which is not desirable.
3092
6ec97b1b
PH
3093PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3094 queries.
3095
e22ca4ac
JJ
3096JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3097 --not options
3098
3099JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3100
33d73e3b
PH
3101PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3102 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3103 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3104 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3105
9ecb03f3
PH
3106PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3107 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3108 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3109
084efe8d
PH
3110PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3111 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3112 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3113 0.12.
3114
366fc9f0
PH
3115PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3116 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3117 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3118 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3119 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3120
c59f5781 3121
c887c79e
TF
3122Exim version 4.62
3123-----------------
3124
3125TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3126 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3127
1cce3af8
PH
3128PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3129 patch).
3130
afb3eaaf
PH
3131PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3132 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3133 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3134 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3135 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3136 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3137 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3138 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3139 451 error is used.
3140
e173618b
PH
3141PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3142
dd16e114
PH
3143PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3144 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3145 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3146
f7fd3850
PH
3147PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3148 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3149 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3150 odd errors.
3151
d87df92c
PH
3152PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3153 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3154
7e9f683d
PH
3155PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3156 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3157 option (which defaults to 0600).
3158
bfad5236
PH
3159PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3160
01c490df
PH
3161PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3162 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3163 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3164 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3165 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3166 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3167 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3168
d6629cdc
PH
3169PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3170
1cce3af8 3171
214e2000
PH
3172Exim version 4.61
3173-----------------
3174
3175PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3176 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3177 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3178 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3179 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3180 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3181 addresses as local.
3182
f9daeae0
PH
3183PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3184 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3185
7e66e54d
PH
3186PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3187
c8ea1597
PH
3188PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3189 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3190 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3191 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3192 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3193 grumble.
3194
911f6fde
PH
3195PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3196 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3197
47ca6d6c
PH
3198PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3199 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3200 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3201 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3202 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3203
ed0e9820
PH
3204PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3205 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3206 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3207 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3208
eff37e47
PH
3209PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3210 be the same on different OS.
3211
1921d2ea
PH
3212PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3213 testing.
3214
b3f69ca8
JJ
3215JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3216 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3217
3218JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3219 in 4.61-PH/06
3220
424a1c63
PH
3221PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3222 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3223 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3224 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3225 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3226 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3227 bounce message.
3228
7a100415
PH
3229PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3230 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3231 when Exim was called.
3232
19b9dc85
PH
3233PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3234 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3235
309bd837
PH
3236PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3237 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3238 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3239 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3240
59e82a2a
PH
3241PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3242 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3243 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3244 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3245 changes:
3246
3247 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3248 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3249 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3250
3251 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3252 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3253 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3254
9edc04ce
PH
3255PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3256 feature).
3257
1349e1e5
PH
3258PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3259 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3260 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3261 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3262 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3263 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3264 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3265 values from the SRV records were lost.
3266
ea49d0e1
PH
3267PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3268 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3269 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3270
064a94c9
PH
3271PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3272 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3273 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3274
727071f8
PH
3275PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3276 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3277 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3278 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3279 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3280 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3281 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3282 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3283 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3284 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3285
f78eb7c6
PH
3286PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3287 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3288 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3289
21c28500
PH
3290PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3291 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3292
3293PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3294 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3295 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3296 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3297 is given.
3298
1688f43b
PH
3299PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3300 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3301 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3302
3303PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3304 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3305 PH/23 above applies.
3306
9675b384
PH
3307PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3308 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3309 (for which there is an explicit test).
3310
6a3f1455
PH
3311PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3312
dac79d3e
PH
3313PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3314 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3315 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3316 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3317 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3318
5977a0b3
PH
3319PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3320 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3321 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3322 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3323
c91535f3
PH
3324PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3325 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3326 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3327
0d46a8c8
PH
3328PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3329
278c6e6c
PH
3330PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3331
2cbb4081
PH
3332PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3333 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3334 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3335
3eef829e
PH
3336PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3337 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3338 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3339 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3340 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3341
1ab95fa6
PH
3342PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3343 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3344 the message gets confusing).
3345
230205fc
PH
3346PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3347 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3348 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3349 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3350
75e0e026
PH
3351PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3352 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3353 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3354 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3355 same order.
3356
3357PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3358 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3359 the different processes.
3360
145396a6
PH
3361PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3362
3cd34f13
PH
3363PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3364
11121d3d
JJ
3365JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3366 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3367
3368JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3369 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3370
3371JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3372 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3373 messages matching specified criteria.
3374
8def5aaf
PH
3375PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3376
929ba01c
PH
3377PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3378 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3379
2632889e
PH
3380PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3381 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3382 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3383 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3384 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3385 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3386 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3387 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3388 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3389 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3390
944a9c55
PH
3391PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3392 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3393 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3394
4a23603b
PH
3395PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3396
4730f942
PH
3397PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3398 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3399 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3400 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3401 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3402 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3403 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3404 the variable.
3405
30dba1e6
PH
3406PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3407 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3408
382afc6b
PH
3409PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3410
a86229cf
PH
3411PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3412
50c99ba6
PH
3413PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3414
d35e429d
PH
3415PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3416 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3417 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3418 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3419 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3420 size of the count of files.
3421
f90d018c
PH
3422PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3423
75def545
PH
3424PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3425 used in LMTP mode:
3426
3427 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3428 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3429 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3430 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3431
3432 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3433 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3434 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3435
3436PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3437 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3438 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3439 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3440 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3441
c46782ef
PH
3442PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3443 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3444
71fafd95
PH
3445PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3446 will now be deprecated.
3447
2c5db4fd
PH
3448PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3449
9cf6b11a
JJ
3450JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3451 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3452 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3453
3454JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3455 with very large, slow to parse queues
3456
3457JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3458
3459JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3460
898d150f
PH
3461PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3462 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3463 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3464 SMTP output lines.
3465
46218253
PH
3466PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3467 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3468 Sieve code now uses this.
3469
e97957bc
PH
3470PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3471 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3472
81e509d7
PH
3473PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3474 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3475
3d240ff7
PH
3476PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3477
b37c4101
PH
3478PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3479 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3480 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3481 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3482 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3483
79378e0f
PH
3484PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3485 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3486 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3487 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3488
e49c7bb4
PH
3489PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3490
d114ec46
PH
3491PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3492
f3d7df6c
PH
3493PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3494 is preferred over IPv4.
3495
715ab376
PH
3496PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3497 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3498 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3499 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3500 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3501 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3502 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3503
6b31b150
PH
3504PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3505 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3506 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3507
3508PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3509
d515a917
PH
3510PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3511 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3512 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3513 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3514 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3515 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3516 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3517 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3518 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3519 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3520 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3521
9b8fadde
PH
3522PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3523 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3524 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3525
214e2000 3526
5de37277
PH
3527Exim version 4.60
3528-----------------
3529
cc38ddbf
PH
3530PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3531
3532 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3533 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3534
3535 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3536 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3537 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3538
72fdd6ae
PH
3539PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3540
3541 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3542 not a single digit.
3543
3544 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3545 string.
3546
3547 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3548 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3549 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3550 silly things.
3551
3552 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3553 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3554
3555 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3556 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3557
cb741023
PH
3558PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3559 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3560 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3561
f174f16e
PH
3562PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3563 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3564
c25242d7
PH
3565PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3566 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3567
3568 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3569
3570 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3571 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3572 this:
3573
3574 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3575
82c19f95
PH
3576PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3577 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3578 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3579 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3580 identical. For example:
3581
3582 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3583
3584 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3585 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3586 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3587
d7ffbc12
PH
3588PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3589 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3590 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3591 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3592
9f526266
PH
3593PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3594 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3595 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3596 message.
3597
87fcc8b9
PH
3598PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3599
3600 o fixes some comments
3601 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3602 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3603 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3604 and documents the missing references header update
3605
3606 and most important:
3607
3608 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3609 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3610 result)
3611
456682f5
PH
3612PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3613 Electronic Mail") by including:
3614
3615 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3616
3617 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3618 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3619 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3620 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3621 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3622
3623 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3624
3625 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3626
3627 The auto-replied keyword:
3628
3629 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3630 message by an automatic process,
3631
3632 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3633
3634 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3635 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3636
3637 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3638 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3639 other messages.
3640
3e46c1aa
PH
3641PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3642 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3643
49826d12
PH
3644PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3645
eba0c039
PH
3646PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3647 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3648 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3649
a0d6ba8a
PH
3650PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3651 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3652 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3653
f0917727
PH
3654PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3655 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3656 and treats the condition as false.
3657
096fee00
PH
3658PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3659
024bd3c2
PH
3660PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3661 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3662 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3663 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3664 not changing the active code.
3665
3666 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3667 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3668
3669 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3670 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3671
df199fec
PH
3672PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3673 (Bugzilla #53).
3674
d27f1df3
PH
3675PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3676 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3677 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3678 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3679 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3680 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3681 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3682 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3683 the text comparison.
3684
96776534
PH
3685PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3686 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3687 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3688 The same fix has been applied.
3689
5de37277 3690
9a799bc0
PH
3691Exim version 4.54
3692-----------------
3693
3694PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3695 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3696 It now does.
3697
99a4b039
PH
3698PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3699 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3700
3701PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3702
4b233853
PH
3703PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3704 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3705 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3706 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3707 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3708
8857ccfd
PH
3709TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3710 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3711 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3712 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3713 or /domain=).
3714
433a2980
PH
3715PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3716 testing suite.
3717
3e46c1aa 3718
9a799bc0 3719
e3a311ba
TK
3720Exim version 4.53
3721-----------------
3722
3723TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3724 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3725
13b685f9
PH
3726PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3727
395ff96d
PH
3728PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3729
5b68f6e4
PH
3730PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3731 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3732 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3733
1ab52c69
PH
3734PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3735 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3736 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3737
b07e6aa3
PH
3738PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3739 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3740 operating systems.
3741
254e032f
PH
3742PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3743 ${stat: expansion item.
3744
3af76a81
PH
3745PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3746 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3747
2548ba04
PH
3748PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3749 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3750 file for comments.
3751
b6c6011d
PH
3752PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3753
cf39cf57
PH
3754PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3755 setting.
3756
f1513293
PH
3757PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3758 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3759
727549a4
PH
3760TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3761
af46795e
PH
3762PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3763 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3764 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3765 the end of the subprocess.
3766
d7b47fd0
PH
3767PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3768 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3769 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3770 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3771 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3772
ee744174
JJ
3773JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3774
b582ab87
PH
3775TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3776
41a13e0a
PH
3777PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3778 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3779
f625cc5a
PH
3780PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3781
3782PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3783
21f7af35
PH
3784PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3785 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3786 HP-UX compiler.
3787
31480e42
PH
3788PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3789
2d280592
PH
3790PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3791 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3792 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3793
7cd1141b
PH
3794PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3795 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3796
3797PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3798 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3799
750af86e
PH
3800PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3801 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3802
3803 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3804 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3805
3806 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3807 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3808 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3809 contributed by a Radius user.
3810
3811PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3812 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3813
4304270b
TK
3814TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3815 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3816
750af86e
PH
3817PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3818 available.
3819
64ffc24f
PH
3820PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3821 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3822 received.
3823
5dd9625b
PH
3824PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3825 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3826 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3827 header lines when this was not necessary.
3828
5591031b
PH
3829PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3830
ba18e66a
PH
3831PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3832 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3833 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3834 exists".
3835
9cec981f
PH
3836PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3837 -bV or -d is used.
3838
aa2b5c79
PH
3839PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3840 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3841 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3842 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3843
48a53b7f
PH
3844PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3845
1c59d63b
PH
3846PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3847
671012da
TK
3848TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3849
1509d3a8
PH
3850PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3851
3852PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3853 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3854 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3855 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3856 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3857 settings.
3858
3859PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3860
2fe1a124
PH
3861PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3862 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3863 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3864 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3865 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3866 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3867 which is clearly wrong.
3868
8800895a
PH
3869PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3870
ccfdb010
PH
3871PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3872 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3873 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3874 subsequently added.
3875
1130bfb0
PH
3876PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3877 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3878
ebcb507f
PH
3879PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3880
c35e155c
PH
3881PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3882 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3883
95d1f782
PH
3884PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3885 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3886
fd6de02e
PH
3887PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3888 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3889
58de37c5
PH
3890PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3891 recipients, not senders.
3892
261cf466
TF
3893TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3894 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3895
3ee512ff
PH
3896PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3897
e08c430f
PH
3898PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3899
bef5a11f
PH
3900PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3901 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3902 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3903 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3904
7546de58
TF
3905TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3906
e5d5a95f
TF
3907TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3908 clock is set back in time.
3909
2e88a017
TF
3910TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3911 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3912
a5f65aa4
TF
3913TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3914 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3915
e7726cbf
PH
3916PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3917 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3918 (see PH/47 above).
3919
a7fdad5b
TF
3920TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3921 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3922 header rewrites.
3923
6af56900
PH
3924PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3925 type ("H").
3926
0925ede6
PH
3927PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3928
66afa403
TF
3929TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3930 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3931 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3932
0154e85a
TF
3933TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3934 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3935 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3936 helo verification defer as a failure.
3937
16f12c76
PH
3938PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3939 actual error message.
3940
bbe902f0 3941
e5a9dba6
PH
3942Exim version 4.52
3943-----------------
3944
3945TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3946
22c3b60b
PH
3947PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3948 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3949 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3950 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3951
06a9b4b5
PH
3952TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3953
c1ac6996
PH
3954PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3955 can still be requested.
3956
9c7a242c
PH
3957PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3958 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3959 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3960 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3961
87ba3f5f
PH
3962TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3963 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3964 circumstances, but probably never did.
3965
3966PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3967 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3968 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3969 in the header line.
3970
29aba418
TF
3971TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3972
fe0dab11
TF
3973TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3974 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3975
11d337a4
TK
3976TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3977
3978TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3979
415c8f3b
PH
3980PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3981 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3982 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3983 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3984 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3985 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3986
958541e9
PH
3987PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3988 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3989 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3990 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3991 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3992 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3993
c206415f
TK
3994TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3995 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3996
2a4be8f9
PH
3997PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3998 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3999
1cba11c5
SC
4000SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4001 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4002
4c04137d 4003SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4004
4005SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4006
4007SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4008
4009SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4010
4011SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4012
4013SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4014
1005d00e
TK
4015TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4016
4017TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4018 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4019 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4020
4021TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4022 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4023 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4024 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4025
9b4768fa
PH
4026PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4027 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4028 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4029
4030PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4031 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4032 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4033 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4034
0d7eb84a
PH
4035PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4036 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4037 to be made).
4038
4039PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4040 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4041 should work with maildirs and everything.
4042
40727bee
TK
4043TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4044 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4045
554d2369
TF
4046TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4047 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4048
1f922db1
PH
4049PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4050 function for BDB 4.3.
4051
ef213c3b
PH
4052PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4053
8ac170f3
PH
4054PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4055 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4056 involved.
4057
b1c749bb
PH
4058PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4059 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4060 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4061 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4062 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4063 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4064
4aac9b49
PH
4065PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4066 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4067 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4068 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4069 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4070 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4071 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4072 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4073
294520c8
TK
4074TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4075 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4076 details.
4077
5bd022fe
PH
4078PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4079 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4080
90e9ce59
PH
4081PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4082 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4083 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4084 test. It is now used for both.
4085
5ea81592
PH
4086PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4087 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4088 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4089 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4090 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4091 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4092
c6c2dc1d
PH
4093PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4094 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4095 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4096 string_vformat().
4097
fffffe4c
PH
4098PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4099 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4100 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4101
9a26b6b2
PH
4102PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4103 experimental DomainKeys support:
4104
4105 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4106 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4107 the control was given.
4108
4109 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4110
4aee0225
PH
4111PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4112
32d668a5
PH
4113PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4114
8187c3f3
PH
4115PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4116 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4117 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4118 db.h files).
4119
ff790e47 4120PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4121 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4122 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4123 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4124 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4125 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4126 course.
ff790e47 4127
5417f6d1
PH
4128PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4129 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4130 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4131 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4132 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4133 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4134
59cf8544
PH
4135PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4136 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4137 do -d+all out of habit.
4138
e7ad8a65
PH
4139PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4140 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4141 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4142
ade42478
PH
4143PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4144 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4145 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4146 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4147 record types that Exim uses.
4148
182ad5cf
PH
4149PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4150 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4151 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4152 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4153 non-existent file that was broken.
4154
b0d9fc80
TK
4155TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4156 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4157
4158TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4159 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4160 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4161
4162TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4163
47c7a64a
PH
4164PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4165 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4166 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4167 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4168 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4169 same time.
4170
a388bce4
SC
4171SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4172 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4173 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4174 at a slight CPU cost.
4175
4176SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4177 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4178
4179SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4180 by Marc Sherman.
4181
0793e4ed
SC
4182SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4183
c58b88df
PH
4184PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4185 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4186
e7ad8a65 4187
7982096b
PH
4188Exim version 4.51
4189-----------------
4190
1a46a8c5
PH
4191TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4192 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4193
2f079f46 4194TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4195
4196TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4197
4198PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4199 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4200
4201PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4202 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4203 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4204 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4205 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4206 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4207 file.
4208
4209PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4210 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4211 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4212 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4213 these two options.
4214
4215PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4216 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4217 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4218 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4219 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4220 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4221 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4222 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4223
4224PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4225 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4226
4227PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4228 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4229 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4230 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4231 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4232 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4233
4234PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4235 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4236 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4237 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4238
4239PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4240 Finch).
4241
4242PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4243 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4244
49c2d5ea
PH
4245PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4246 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4247 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4248 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4249 message.
49c2d5ea 4250
bf759a8b
PH
4251PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4252
83364d30
PH
4253PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4254 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4255
7999bbd7
PH
4256PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4257 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4258 to what was transported.)
4259
7dbf77c9
PH
4260TF/01 Added $received_time.
4261
74e0617f
PH
4262PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4263 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4264 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4265 spamd_address settings.
4266
2f079f46
PH
4267PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4268 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4269 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4270 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4271 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4272
8c841523
PH
4273PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4274
7766a4f0
PH
4275PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4276 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4277 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4278 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4279 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4280
8b417f2c
PH
4281PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4282 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4283
901f42cb
PH
4284PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4285 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4286 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4287 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4288 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4289 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4290 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4291 for failure.
4292
f9b9210e
PH
4293PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4294 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4295 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4296 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4297 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4298 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4299 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4300 "input=".
4301
54cdb463
PH
4302PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4303
cf00dad6
PH
4304PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4305 driver and ACL definitions.
4306
acb1b346
PH
4307PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4308 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4309
c5ddb310
PH
4310PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4311 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4312 understands it better than I do:
4313
4314 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4315 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4316
4317 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4318 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4319 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4320 => three warnings about OTP not working
4321 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4322
4323 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4324 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4325 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4326 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4327 for each call.)
4328 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4329 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4330
4331 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4332 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4333 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4334
31619da6
PH
4335PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4336 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4337 specified.
4338
bebaf0fc
PH
4339PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4340 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4341 "Linux".
4342
475fe28a
PH
4343PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4344 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4345 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4346
4347 warn !verify = sender
4348 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4349
4350 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4351 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4352
7e8bec7a
PH
4353PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4354
4355 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4356 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4357
4358 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4359 nomenclature these days.)
4360
e4a89c47
PH
4361PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4362 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4363
5ca2a9a1
PH
4364PH/30 In these circumstances:
4365 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4366 . First host does not offer TLS;
4367 . First host accepts first address;
4368 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4369 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4370 . Second host accepts second address.
4371 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4372 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4373 address.
7e8bec7a 4374
c688b954
PH
4375PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4376 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4377 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4378 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4379 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4380
fed77020
PH
4381PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4382 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4383
7fe1560f
PH
4384PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4385 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4386
ebb6e6d5
PH
4387PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4388 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4389 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4390
9c4e8f60
PH
4391PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4392 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4393 overlooked.
4394
4395PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4396
d7174846
PH
4397PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4398 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4399 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4400 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4401 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4402 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4403 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4404
4405 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4406 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4407 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4408 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4409 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4410
4411 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4412 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4413 routed further.
4414
cfe75fc3
PH
4415PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4416 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4417 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4418 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4419 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4420 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4421
be22d70e
PH
4422PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4423
0612b098
PH
4424PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4425 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4426 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4427 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4428 printable escape sequences.
4429
2e0c1448
PH
4430PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4431 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4432 body only.
4433
447d236c
PH
4434PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4435 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4436 are as follows:
4437
4438 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4439 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4440 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4441 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4442 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4443
4444 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4445 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4446 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4447
d20976dc
PH
4448PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4449
f656d135
PH
4450PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4451 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4452 play with."
4453
2e2a30b4
PH
4454PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4455 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4456 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4457 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4458 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4459 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4460 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4461 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4462 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4463 the log output.
4464
9176e9f0
PH
4465PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4466 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4467 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4468 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4469 "make".
4470
7982096b 4471
bbe902f0
PH
4472A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4473----------------------------------------
4474
4475Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4476changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4477needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4478in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4479that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4480release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4481from 4.43.
4482
4483I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44844.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4485those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4486historical information.
4487
4488
f7b63901 4489Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4490-----------------
4491
5fe762f6
PH
4492 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4493
139059f6 4494 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4495 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4496
7086e875
PH
4497 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4498 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4499 place.
4500
35af9f61
PH
4501 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4502 filter fails to execute.
4503
b668c215
PH
4504 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4505 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4506 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4507 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4508 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4509
a494b1e1
PH
4510 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4511
4512 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4513 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4514 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4515 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4516
c5fcb476
PH
4517 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4518 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4519 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4520 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4521 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4522
69358f02
PH
4523 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4524
5be20824
PH
452510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4526
eb2c0248
PH
452711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4528 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4529 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4530 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4531
2a3eea10
PH
453212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4533 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4534 sender verification.
4535
453613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4537 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4538
23c7ff99
PH
453914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4540
4deaf07d
PH
454115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4542 connection timeout.
4543
926e1192
PH
454416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4545 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4546
650edc6f
PH
454717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4548 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4549
2c7db3f5
PH
455018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4551 information about exactly what failed.
4552
3d235903
PH
455319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4554
7c7ad977
PH
455520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4556 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4557 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4558
981756db
PH
455921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4560 It is now set to "smtps".
4561
d4eb88df
PH
456222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4563 ignore_target_hosts.
4564
456523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4566 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4567 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4568 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4569 "[x.x.x.x]".
4570
7d468ab8
PH
457124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4572 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4573 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4574
457525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4576 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4577 wake it up if nothing else does.
4578
62c0818f
PH
457926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4580 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4581 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4582 end up negative.
4583
26034054
PH
458427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4585 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4586
af66f652
PH
458728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4588
90af77f4
PH
458929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4590 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4591 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4592 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4593 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4594 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4595 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4596 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4597
d8ef3577
PH
459830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4599 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4600 than one IP address.
4601
5cb8cbc6
PH
460231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4603 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4604 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4605 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4606
14702f5b
PH
460732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4608 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4609 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4610 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4611 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4612 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4613
063b1e99
PH
461433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4615 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4616 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4617 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4618
652e1b65
PH
461934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4620 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4621 respected.
4622
6f0c9a4f
PH
462335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4624 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4625 $sender_host_address.
4626
33397d19
PH
462736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4628 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4629 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4630 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4631 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4632 very small.
4633
7bb56e1f
PH
463437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4635
4636 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4637 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4638
ea3bc19b
PH
4639 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4640 just the host names, not the priorities.
4641
4642 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4643 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4644 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4645
ea3bc19b 4646 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4647 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4648
0bcb2a0e
PH
464938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4650 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4651 domain.
4652
2ac0e484
PH
465339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4654
4e1fde53
PH
465540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4656 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4657
de365ded
PH
465841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4659 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4660 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4661
f05da2e8
PH
466242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4663
d6453af2
PH
466443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4665
f7b63901
PH
466644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4667
466845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4669 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4670 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4671 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4672 because the tests only now provoked it.
4673
a444213a
PH
467446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4675 (this can affect the format of dates).
4676
0ec020ea
PH
467747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4678 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4679 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4680 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4681
b1206957
PH
468248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4683
468449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4685 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4686 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4687 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4688
26dd5a95
PH
468950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4690 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4691 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4692
343b2385
PH
469351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4694 autoreply.
4695
1c5466b9
PH
469652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4697 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4698 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4699 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4700 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4701 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4702 is going on).
4703
55ee9ee3
PH
470453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4705 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4706 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4707 the line.
4708
d38f8232
PH
470954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4710 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4711 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4712
4713 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4714 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4715 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4716 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4717 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4718 so I produce this patch..."
4719
3295e65b
PH
4720 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4721 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4722 is not defined.
4723
7102e136
PH
472455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4725 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4726 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4727 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4728 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4729
3ca0ba97
PH
473056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4731
c2bcbe20
PH
473257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4733 long debug lines gets shown.
4734
18ce445d
PH
473558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4736 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4737
1f5b4c3d
PH
473859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4739
4740 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4741 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4742 of $primary_hostname.
4743
b975ba52
PH
474460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4745 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4746 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4747 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4748 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4749 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4750 by change 4.50/55 above.
4751
4752 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4753 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4754 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4755 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4756 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4757 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4758 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4759
476061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4761 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4762 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4763 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4764
17ffcae7
PH
476562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4766 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4767
d95f9fdb
PH
476863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4769 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4770 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4771 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4772 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4773
86b8287f
PH
477464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4775 This has been fixed.
4776
60dc5e56
PH
477765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4778 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4779 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4780 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4781 the caching.)
4782
533244af
PH
478366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4784
a5a28604
PH
478567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4786 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4787 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4788 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4789
7e634d24
PH
479068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4791 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4792
3e11c26b
PH
479369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4794 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4795 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4796
6729cf78
PH
479770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4798 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4799 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4800 message there.
4801
00f00ca5
PH
480271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4803 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4804 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4805
c9bdd01c
PH
480672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4807 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4808 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4809 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4810
d43194df
PH
481173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4812 during host lookups.
4813
fe5b5d0b
PH
481474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4815 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4816
4817 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4818
76a2d7ba
PH
481975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4820 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4821 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4822 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4823 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4824 background.
4825
482676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4827 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4828
04f7d5b9
PH
482977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4830 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4831 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4832
bc60667e
PH
483378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4834
bb6e88ff
PH
483579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4836 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4837 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4838 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4839 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4840 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4841 process earlier.
4842
1e70f85b
PH
484380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4844 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4845 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4846 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4847 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4848
484981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4850 tables).
4851
4e01f9d6
PH
485282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4853
1ee1cef2
PH
485483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4855 "vacation" handling.
4856
6e2b4ccc
PH
485784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4858 OS variants using glibc.
4859
8e669ac1
PH
486085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4861
495ae4b0 4862
bbe902f0
PH
4863----------------------------------------------------
4864See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4865----------------------------------------------------
4866
4867
4868Exim version 4.44
4869-----------------
4870
4871 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4872 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4873 transport
4874
4875 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4876 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4877 place.
4878
4879 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4880 filter fails to execute.
4881
4882 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4883 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4884 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4885 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4886 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4887
4888 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4889 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4890 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4891 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4892
4893 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4894 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4895 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4896 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4897 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4898
4899 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4900
4901 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4902 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4903 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4904 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4905
4906 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4907 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4908 sender verification.
4909
491010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4911 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4912
491311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4914 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4915
491612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4917 ignore_target_hosts.
4918
491913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4920 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4921 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4922 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4923 "[x.x.x.x]".
4924
492514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4926 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4927 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4928
492915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4930 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4931 wake it up if nothing else does.
4932
493316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4934 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4935 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4936 end up negative.
4937
493817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4939 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4940
ea3a6f44 494118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4942
494319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4944 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4945 empty pattern.
4946
494720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4948 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4949 one IP address.
4950
ea3a6f44
NM
495121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4952 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4953 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4954 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4955 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4956 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4957
ea3a6f44
NM
495822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4959 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4960 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4961
496223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4963 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4964 $sender_host_address.
4965
496624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4967
ea3a6f44
NM
496825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4969 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4970 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4971
497226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4973 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4974
ea3a6f44
NM
497527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4976 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4977
ea3a6f44
NM
497828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4979 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4980 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4981 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4982
498329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4984 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4985 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4986
ea3a6f44
NM
498730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4988 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4989 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4990 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4991
ea3a6f44
NM
499231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4993 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4994 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4995
ea3a6f44
NM
499631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4997 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4998
ea3a6f44
NM
499932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5000 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5001 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5002 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5003 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5004 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5005 is going on).
bbe902f0 5006
ea3a6f44
NM
500733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5008 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5009 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5010 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5011 CAN-2005-0021
5012
ea3a6f44
NM
501334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5014 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5015 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5016 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5017 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5018 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5019 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5020
5021 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5022 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5023 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5024 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5025 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5026 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5027 CAN-2005-0021
5028
ea3a6f44
NM
502935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5030 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5031 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5032 CAN-2005-0022
5033
ea3a6f44
NM
503436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5035 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5036 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5037 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5038 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5039
ea3a6f44
NM
504037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5041 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5042 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5043 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5044 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5045
ea3a6f44
NM
504638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5047 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5048 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5049 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5050 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5051
5052
495ae4b0
PH
5053Exim version 4.43
5054-----------------
5055
5056 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5057 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5058 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5059 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5060 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5061 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5062 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5063
5064 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5065 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5066 the delivery.
5067
5068 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5069
5070 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5071
5072 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5073 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5074 to local_scan().
5075
5076 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5077 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5078 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5079 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5080 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5081
5082 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5083 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5084
5085 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5086
5087 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5088
508910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5090 header_sender only.
5091
509211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5093 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5094
509512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5096 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5097 affecting debugging statements).
5098
509913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5100
510114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5102 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5103 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5104 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5105 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5106 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5107 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5108 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5109 after the received time, and all would be well.
5110
511115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5112 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5113 condition in an expansion string.
5114
511516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5116
511717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5118 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5119 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5120 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5121 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5122 job under whatever limits there are.
5123
512418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5125
512619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5127 space).
5128
512920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5130 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5131 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5132 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5133 return path is set.
5134
513521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5136 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5137 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5138 binary data in such strings.
5139
514022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5141
514223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5143 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5144 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5145 failure, which is pointless.
5146
514724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5148
514925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5150
515126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5152 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5153 Sender: header lines.
5154
515527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5156 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5157 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5158
515928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5160 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5161 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5162 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5163 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5164 happens.
5165
516629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5167 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5168 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5169 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5170 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5171
517230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5173 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5174 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5175 1024.
5176
517731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5178 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5179
518032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5181 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5182
518333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5184
518532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5186
518733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5188
518934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5190 syntax error.
5191
519235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5193
519436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5195
519637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5197 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5198 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5199 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5200
520138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5202 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5203
5204
5205Exim version 4.42
5206-----------------
5207
5208 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5209 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5210 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5211 it was not quoted.
5212 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5213 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5214 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5215 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5216 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5217 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5218
5219 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5220 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5221 verification failure".
5222
5223 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5224 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5225 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5226 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5227
5228 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5229 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5230 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5231 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5232 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5233 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5234 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5235 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5236 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5237 treated as a timeout.
5238
5239 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5240 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5241 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5242 not set for Exim filters).
5243
5244 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5245 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5246 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5247
5248 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5249
5250 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5251 try to make them clearer.
5252
5253 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5254 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5255
5256 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5257
5258 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5259
526010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5261 only the Cygwin environment.
5262
526311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5264 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5265 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5266 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5267 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5268
526912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5270 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5271 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5272 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5273 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5274 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5275 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5276
527713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5278 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5279
528014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5281
5282 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5283 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5284 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5285
5286 To: susanne@some.where
5287
5288 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5289 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5290 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5291 of addresses in From: header lines).
5292
5293 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5294 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5295 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5296
5297 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5298 treated as non-personal.
5299
5300 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5301 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5302
530315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5304
530516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5306
530717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5308 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5309 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5310
531118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5312 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5313
531419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5315 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5316 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5317 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5318 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5319 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5320
532120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5322 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5323 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5324 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5325 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5326 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5327 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5328 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5329
5330 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5331
533221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5333 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5334
533522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5336 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5337 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5338
533923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5340 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5341
534224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5343 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5344 rather than long int.
5345
534625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5347
534826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5349
5350
5351Exim version 4.41
5352-----------------
5353
5354 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5355 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5356 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5357 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5358 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5359 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5360
5361
5362Exim version 4.40
5363-----------------
5364
5365 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5366 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5367
5368 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5369 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5370 socklen_t is defined.
5371
5372 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5373 always exist.
5374
5375 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5376 configured.
5377
5378 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5379 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5380 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5381 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5382 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5383
5384 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5385 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5386 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5387 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5388
5389 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5390 of flapping under certain conditions.
5391
5392 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5393 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5394 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5395
5396 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5397
539810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5399
540011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5401 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5402 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5403 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5404
540512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5406 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5407 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5408 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5409 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5410 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5411 preserved with the message after it was received.
5412
541313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5414 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5415 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5416 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5417 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5418 test suite worked just fine.
5419
542014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5421 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5422 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5423
542415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5425 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5426 string.
5427
542816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5429 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5430 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5431 does not fully solve it.
5432
543317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5434 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5435 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5436 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5437 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5438
543918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5440 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5441 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5442
544319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5444 string, for example:
5445
5446 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5447
5448 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5449 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5450 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5451 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5452 the routers could not see them.
5453
545420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5455 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5456
545721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5458 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5459 output).
5460
546122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5462 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5463 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5464 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5465 that needed quoting.
5466
546723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5468 was not being matched caselessly.
5469
547024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5471 backslashes.
5472
547325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5474 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5475 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5476 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5477 when use_sender is false.
5478
547926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5480
548127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5482
548328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5484
548529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5486 the configuration file.
5487
548830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5489 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5490
549131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5492
549332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5494 bytes in the message body.
5495
549633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5497 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5498 delivery.
5499
550034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5501
550235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5503
550436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5505 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5506 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5507 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5508 another IP address.
5509
5510
5511Exim version 4.34
5512-----------------
5513
5514 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5515 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5516
5517 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5518 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5519 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5520 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5521 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5522
5523 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5524 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5525
5526 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5527 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5528 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5529
5530 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5531 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5532 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5533
5534 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5535 for routers.
5536
5537 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5538 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5539 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5540 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5541 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5542 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5543 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5544
5545
5546Exim version 4.33
5547-----------------
5548
5549 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5550 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5551 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5552 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5553 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5554 default (and expected) setting.
5555
5556 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5557 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5558 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5559 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5560
5561 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5562 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5563
5564 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5565 in domain lists.
5566
5567 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5568 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5569 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5570 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5571 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5572 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5573
5574 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5575 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5576 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5577
5578 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5579 part (NOT match_host).
5580
5581 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5582
5583 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5584 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5585 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5586 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5587 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5588 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5589 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5590 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5591 the same named file.
5592
559310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5594 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5595 when Exim is built.
5596
559711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5598 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5599 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5600 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5601 a host name.
5602
560312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5604 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5605 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5606
560713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5608
560914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5610
561115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5612
561316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5614 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5615
561617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5617 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5618 before starting the TLS session.
5619
562018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5621
562219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5623 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5624
562520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5626 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5627 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5628 colon in the middle).
5629
5630
5631Exim version 4.32
5632-----------------
5633
5634 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5635 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5636 multiple configurations are in use.
5637
5638 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5639 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5640 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5641 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5642 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5643 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5644
5645 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5646 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5647
5648 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5649 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5650 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5651
5652 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5653 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5654 occurs.
5655
5656 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5657 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5658
5659 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5660
5661 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5662 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5663
5664 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5665
5666 -prval:sval
5667
5668 is equivalent to
5669
5670 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5671
5672 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5673 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5674 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5675 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5676 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5677
567810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5679 Exim's behaviour:
5680
5681 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5682 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5683 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5684 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5685 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5686 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5687
5688 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5689 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5690 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5691 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5692 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5693 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5694 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5695 string.
5696
5697 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5698 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5699 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5700 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5701 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5702
570311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5704
570512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5706 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5707 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5708
570913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5710
571114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5712 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5713 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5714 information.
5715
571615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5717 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5718
571916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5720 Three changes have been made:
5721
5722 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5723 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5724 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5725 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5726 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5727
5728 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5729 been restored.
5730
5731 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5732 the modified behaviour.
5733
5734
5735Exim version 4.31
5736-----------------
5737
5738 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5739 Larry Rosenman.
5740
5741 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5742 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5743
5744 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5745 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5746 try to track down a specific problem.
5747
5748 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5749 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5750 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5751
5752 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5753 warning.
5754
5755 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5756 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5757 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5758 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5759 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5760 some earlier ones do not.
5761
5762 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5763
5764 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5765 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5766 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5767 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5768 address literals are enabled, of course).
5769
5770 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5771
577210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5773 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5774 by a command such as
5775
5776 exim -f "" ...
5777
5778 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5779
578011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5781
578212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5783 remained set. It is now erased.
5784
578513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5786 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5787
578814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5789 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5790 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5791 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5792 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5793 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5794 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5795 appropriate error code.
5796
579715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5798 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5799 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5800 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5801 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5802 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5803
580416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5805 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5806 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5807
580817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5809 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5810 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5811 terminate the header.
5812
581318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5814 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5815 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5816
581719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5818 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5819 (4.30/29). In particular:
5820
5821 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5822 imposed.
5823
5824 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5825 to write a maildirsize file.
5826
5827 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5828 the transport, the new value overrides.
5829
5830 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5831 count.
5832
583320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5834 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5835 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5836 space or a tab.
5837
583821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5839 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5840 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5841 the fallback hosts.
5842
584322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5844 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5845 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5846
584723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5848 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5849 using a union.
5850
585124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5852 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5853 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5854
585525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5856
585726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5858
585927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5860
586128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5862 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5863 become corrupted.
5864
586529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5866 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5867 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5868 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5869 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5870 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5871 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5872 too great.
5873
587430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5875 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5876 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5877 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5878 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5879 incorrectly.
5880
588131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5882 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5883 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5884 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5885 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5886 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5887 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5888 cached value only when the same options are set.
5889
589032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5891
589233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5893 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5894 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5895 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5896 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5897
589834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5899 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5900 it is clearly obsolete.
5901
590235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5903 transport.
5904
590536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5906 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5907 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5908 times.
5909
591037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5911 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5912 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5913 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5914 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5915
591638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5917 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5918 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5919 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5920
592139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5922
5923 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5924
5925 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5926 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5927 2^31.
5928
592940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5930 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5931 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5932 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5933 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5934 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5935 $localpart_data.
5936
593741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5938 with the -f command-line option.
5939
594042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5941 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5942 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5943 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5944 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5945 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5946
594743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5948 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5949 line.
5950
595144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5952 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5953 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5954 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5955 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5956 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5957 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5958 buffer is too small.
5959
596045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5961 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5962
596346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5964 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5965 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5966 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5967 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5968 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5969 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5970 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5971 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5972
597347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5974 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5975 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5976
597748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5978 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5979 ACL").
5980
598149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5982 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5983 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5984 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5985 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5986
598750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5988 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5989 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5990 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5991 is set.
5992
599351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5994
599552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5996
599753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5998 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5999
600054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6001 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6002 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6003
600455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6005 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6006 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6007 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6008 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6009
601056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6011 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6012 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6013 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6014 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6015 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6016 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6017
601857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6019 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6020 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6021 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6022 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6023 the test of how many are available.
6024
602558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6026 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6027 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6028 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6029 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6030 new message is started.
6031
603259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6033 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6034
603560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6036 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6037
603861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6039 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6040 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6041 is no long logged.
6042
604362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6044 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6045 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6046 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6047 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6048 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6049 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6050
605163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6052 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6053 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6054 interpreted as octal.
6055
605664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6057 setting.
6058
605965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6060 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6061 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6062 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6063 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6064 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6065
606666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6067 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6068 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6069 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6070
6071 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6072 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6073 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6074 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6075
6076 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6077 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6078 is a bug fix.
6079
6080 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6081 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6082
608367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6084
608568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6086 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6087 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6088 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6089
609069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6091 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6092 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6093 supplied", which is not helpful.
6094
609570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6096 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6097 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6098
609971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6100 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6101 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6102 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6103 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6104 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6105 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6106 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6107
610872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6109 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6110 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6111 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6112 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6113
611473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6115 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6116 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6117 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6118 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6119 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6120
612174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6122 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6123 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6124
612575. Added write_rejectlog option.
6126
612776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6128 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6129 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6130 variables.
6131
613277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6133
613478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6135 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6136 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6137 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6138 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6139 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6140 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6141 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6142
614379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6144 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6145 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6146 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6147 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6148
614980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6150 Haardt.
6151
615281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6153 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6154 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6155 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6156 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6157 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6158 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6159 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6160 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6161
6162
6163Exim version 4.30
6164-----------------
6165
6166 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6167 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6168 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6169
6170 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6171 fixed.
6172
6173 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6174 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6175 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6176
6177 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6178 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6179 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6180 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6181 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6182 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6183
6184 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6185 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6186 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6187 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6188 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6189 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6190 the Exim test suite.
6191
6192 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6193 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6194 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6195 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6196
6197 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6198 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6199 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6200 specify it in this variable.
6201
6202 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6203 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6204 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6205 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6206
6207 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6208 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6209 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6210 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6211
6212 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6213 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6214 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6215 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6216 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6217
6218 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6219
622010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6221 they are logged.
6222
622311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6224 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6225 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6226 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6227 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6228
622912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6230 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6231
623213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6233 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6234 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6235 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6236 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6237
623814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6239 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6240
624115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6242 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6243 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6244
624516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6246 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6247
624817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6249 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6250
625118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6252 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6253 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6254
625519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6256 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6257
625820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6259 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6260 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6261 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6262
626321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6264
626522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6266 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6267 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6268 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6269
627023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6271
627224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6273 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6274
627525. Added .include_if_exists.
6276
627726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6278 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6279 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6280 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6281 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6282 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6283
628427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6285
628628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6287 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6288 this.
6289
629029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6291
629230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6293 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6294
6295 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6296 550 Sender verify failed
6297
6298 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6299 the final line of the response.
6300
630131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6302 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6303 all other user lookups.
6304
630532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6306 delivery time.
6307
630833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6309 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6310 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6311 result into an int without checking.
6312
631334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6314 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6315 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6316
631735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6318 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6319 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6320 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6321
632236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6323 correctly.
6324
632537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6326 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6327
632838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6329 to the empty sender.
6330
633139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6332 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6333 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6334 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6335 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6336 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6337 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6338 panic log.
6339
634040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6341 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6342 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6343 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6344 used.
6345
634641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6347 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6348
634942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6350 timestamps.
6351
635243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6353 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6354
635544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6356
635745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6358 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6359 logs.
6360
636146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6362 as soon as it is encountered.
6363
636447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6365
636648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6367 rewritten to "<>".
6368
636949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6370 recognizes a tab character.
6371
637250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6373 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6374 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6375 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6376
637751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6378
637952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6380 crash.
6381
638253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6383
638454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6385
638655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6387 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6388 2822.
6389
639056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6391 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6392 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6393 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6394 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6395
639657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6397 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6398
639958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6400 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6401 list (.included file names were always shown).
6402
640359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6404 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6405 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6406 root at that time.
6407
640860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6409 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6410
641161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6412
641362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6414
641563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6416
641764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6418 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6419 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6420 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6421 failures to open the logs.
6422
642365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6424 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6425 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6426 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6427 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6428 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6429 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6430
6431
6432Exim version 4.24
6433-----------------
6434
6435 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6436 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6437 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6438 change 4.23/1.
6439
6440 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6441 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6442 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6443
6444 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6445 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6446 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6447
6448 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6449 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6450 causing some misleading effects.
6451
6452 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6453 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6454 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6455
6456 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6457 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6458 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6459 queue-runner function directly.
6460
6461
6462Exim version 4.23
6463-----------------
6464
6465 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6466 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6467
6468 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6469 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6470 was always written to the default place.
6471
6472 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6473 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6474 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6475
6476 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6477
6478 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6479
6480 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6481 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6482 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6483
6484 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6485 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6486 must start.
6487
6488 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6489 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6490 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6491
6492 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6493 command line option is disabled.
6494
6495 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6496 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6497
6498 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6499
6500 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6501
6502 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6503 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6504
650510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6506
650711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6508 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6509 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6510 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6511 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6512 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6513
651412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6515 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6516 timeout.
6517
651813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6519 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6520
652114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6522 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6523
652415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6525 received was valid base64.
6526
652716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6528 name of the variable that was being set.
6529
653017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6531
653218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6533 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6534 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6535 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6536 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6537 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6538
653919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6540
654120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6542 nor realm was specified.
6543
654421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6545 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6546 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6547 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6548
654922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6550 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6551 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6552
655323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6554 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6555 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6556
655724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6558 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6559 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6560 some systems use these upper case variants.
6561
656225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6563 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6564 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6565 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6566
656726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6568
656927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6570 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6571
657228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6573 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6574 expansion variable.
6575
657629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6577
657830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6579 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6580 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6581 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6582
658331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6584 using it.
6585
658632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6587 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6588 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6589
659033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6591 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6592
659334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6594 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6595 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6596 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6597
659835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6599 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6600 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6601
660236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6603
660437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6605 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6606 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6607 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6608 aborted.
6609
661038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6611 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6612 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6613
661439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6615
661640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6617 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6618
661941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6620 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6621
662242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6623 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6624 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6625 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6626 when emails are that large.
6627
6628
6629
6630Exim version 4.22
6631-----------------
6632
6633 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6634 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6635
6636 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6637 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6638 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6639
6640 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6641 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6642 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6643
6644 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6645 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6646 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6647 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6648 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6649
6650 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6651 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6652 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6653 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6654 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6655 ever.
6656
6657 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6658 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6659 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6660 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6661 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6662 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6663 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6664 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6665 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6666 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6667 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6668 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6669 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6670 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6671
6672 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6673 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6674 parameterised it.
6675
6676 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6677 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6678 error should be diagnosed.
6679
6680 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6681 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6682 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6683 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6684 appeared instead of "NULL".
6685
668610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6687 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6688 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6689 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6690 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6691 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6692 proceeds).
6693
6694 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6695 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6696 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6697
6698
6699Exim version 4.21
6700-----------------
6701
6702 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6703 or receiver verification errors.
6704
6705 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6706 name.
6707
6708 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6709 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6710 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6711 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6712
6713 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6714 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6715 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6716 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6717 shouldn't happen again.
6718
6719 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6720 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6721 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6722
6723 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6724 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6725
6726 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6727
6728 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6729 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6730
6731 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6732 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6733 RFC.
6734
673510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6736 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6737 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6738
673911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6740 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6741 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6742 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6743
674412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6745 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6746 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6747 to define what should happen).
6748
674913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6750 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6751 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6752
675314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6754
675515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6756
675716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6758 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6759
4c04137d 676017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6761 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6762 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6763 structure in all cases.
6764
6765 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6766 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6767 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6768 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6769
677018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6771 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6772 domain name.
6773
677419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6775 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6776
677720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6778 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6779
678021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6781 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6782 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6783
678422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6785 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6786 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6787
678823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6789 the book and for uniformity.
6790
679124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6792
679325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6794 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6795 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6796 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6797 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6798 non-existent command as the problem.
6799
680026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6801 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6802 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6803
680427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6805
680628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6807 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6808 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6809
681029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6811 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6812 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6813 timestamps using strftime().
6814
681530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6816 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6817
681832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6819 transport-time rewrites.
6820
682133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6822 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6823 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6824 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6825
682634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6827 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6828
682935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6830 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6831 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6832 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6833 comma and a space.
6834
683536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6836 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6837 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6838 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6839 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6840 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6841 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6842
684337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6844 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6845 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6846 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6847 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6848
684938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6850 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6851 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6852 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6853 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6854 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6855 remaining text gets split now.
6856
685739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6858 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6859 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6860 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6861
686240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6863 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6864 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6865 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6866 $return_path.
6867
686841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6869 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6870 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6871 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6872 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6873 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6874 passed through if needed.
6875
687642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6877 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6878 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6879 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6880 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6881 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6882
688343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6884 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6885 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6886 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6887 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6888
688944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6890 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6891 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6892 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6893 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6894
689545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6896 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6897 noticed.
6898
689946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6900 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6901 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6902 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6903 mayhem of various kinds.
6904
690547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6906 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6907 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6908 the right test for positive values.
6909
691048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6911 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6912 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6913 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6914 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6915 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6916 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6917 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6918 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6919 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6920 envelope.
6921
692249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6923 module.
6924
692550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6926 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6927 forbidding it.
6928
692951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6930 the existing equality matching.
6931
693252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6933 dealing with inode numbers.
6934
693553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6936 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6937 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6938
693954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6940 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6941 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6942 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6943 local_scan().
6944
694555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6946 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6947 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6948 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6949 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6950 relay addresses has also been removed.
6951
695256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6953
695457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6955 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6956 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6957
695858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6959 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6960 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6961 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6962 processing applies to CR:
6963
6964 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6965 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6966
6967 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6968 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6969 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6970 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6971
697259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6973 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6974 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6975
697660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6977 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6978 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6979 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6980 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6981 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6982 arisen.
6983
698461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6985 program routers.
6986
698762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6988 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6989 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6990 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6991 adds:
6992
6993 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6994
6995 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6996
6997 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6998
699963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7000 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7001 not considered personal.
7002
700364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7004
700565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7006
700766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7008
700967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7010 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7011 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7012 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7013 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7014 header lines, and spool format errors.
7015
701668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7017 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7018 for more flexibility.
7019
702069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7021 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7022 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7023
702470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7025 Sabourenkov.
7026
702771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7028 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7029 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7030 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7031 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7032 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7033 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7034 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7035 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7036
703772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7038 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7039 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7040 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7041 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7042 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7043 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7044
704573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7046 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7047 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7048
704974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7050 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7051 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7052 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7053 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7054 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7055 instead of killing the process with assert().
7056
705775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7058 than Unicode encoding.
7059
706076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7061 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7062 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7063 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7064
706577. Added process_log_path.
7066
706778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7068 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7069
707079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7071 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7072
707380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7074 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7075 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7076
707781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7078 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7079 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7080 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7081 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7082 were applied:
7083
7084 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7085 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7086 as invalid.
7087
708882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7089 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7090 they will be used during message reception.
7091
7092
7093Exim version 4.20
7094-----------------
7095
7096The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7097
7098****