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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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60
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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138JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
139 length value. Previously this would segfault.
140
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141HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
142 newer versions of the scanner.
143
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144JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
145 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
146 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
147 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
148
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152
153JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
154 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
155 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
156 pairs of long lines into single ones.
157
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158PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
159 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
160
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161JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
162 This permits better logging.
163
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164JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
165 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
166 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
167 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
168 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 169 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 170
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171JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
172 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
173 "exiwhat" output.
174
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175PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
176 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
177 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
178
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179JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
180 than 255 are no longer allowed.
181
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182JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
183 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
184 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
185 client, there is no benefit for these.
186 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
187 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
188 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
189 is used (3.2.4 +).
190
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191PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
192 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
193
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194JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
195 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
196 erroneously found still-pending ones.
197
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198JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
199 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
200
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201JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
202 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
203 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
204 signature and again for transmission.
205
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206JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
207 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 208 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 209
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210JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
211 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
212 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
213 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
214 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
215 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
216 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
217
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218JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
219 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
220 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 221 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 222
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223PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
224 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
225 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
226 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
227 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
228 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
229 processing options.
230
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231JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
232 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
233 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
234 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
235 connections.
925ac8e4 236
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237PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
238 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
239 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
240 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
241 versions.
242
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243JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
244 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
245 inaccessible.
246
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247JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
248 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
249 banner-time rejection.
250
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251JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
252 callout/hold.
253
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254PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
255 is the name of a transport.
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256 Fixes bug 2140.
257
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258HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
259
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260JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
261 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
262
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263JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
264 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
265 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
266 during compilation.
267
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268JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
269 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
270 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 271 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 272
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273JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
274 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
275 initial verify call returned a defer.
276
ad1a76fe 277JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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278 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
279
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280JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
281 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
282
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283JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
284 if present. Previously it was ignored.
285
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286JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
287 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
288
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289JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
290 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
291 extensible.
292
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293PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
294 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
295
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296PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
297 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
298 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
299
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300JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
301 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
302 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
303 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
304
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305HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
306 and confused the parent.
307
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308JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
309 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
310
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311JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
312 for log purposes.
313
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314JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
315 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
316 out-of-order delivery.
317
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318JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
319 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
320 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
321 error for the HELO.
322
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323JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
324 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
325 desynchronisation.
326
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327JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
328 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
329 one run was done. Bug 2189.
330
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331JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
332 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
333 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
334 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
335 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
336 message is still "Temporary local problem".
337
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338JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
339 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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340 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
341
342HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
343 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
344 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 345
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346JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
347 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
348 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
349 though a different problem.
350
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9427e879 355JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 356 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 357
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358JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
359
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360PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
361 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
362
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363JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
364 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
365
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366JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
367 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
368 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
369 before acknowledging the chunk.
370
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371PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
372 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
373 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
374
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375JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
376 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
377 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
378 should.
379
380JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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381 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
382 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 383
bd8fbe36 384JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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385 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
386
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387JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
388 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
389 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
390 body hash calculated value.
391
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392JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
393 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
394 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
395
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396JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
397
398JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
399 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
400
401JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
402 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
403 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
404
405JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
406 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
407 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
408 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
409 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
410 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
411
412JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
413 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
414 past that check, despite the cost.
415
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416JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
417 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
418 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
419
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420PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
421 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
422 TLS library to consume.
423
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424PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
425
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426PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
427
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428JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
429 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
430 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
431 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
432 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
433 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
434 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
435
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436PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
437
438PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
439
440PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
441 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
442 should be warning-free.
443
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444JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
445
446HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
447 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
448
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449HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
450 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
451 general solution here.
452
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453PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
454 already-broken messages in the queue.
455
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456JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
457
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458JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
459
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464JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
465 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 466
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467JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
468 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
469 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
470
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471JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
472 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
473 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
474 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
475 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
476 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
477 if one fails this test.
478 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
479 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
480
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481JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
482 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
483
23bb6982 484JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 485 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 486
0bd1b1ed 487JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 488 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 489
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490JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
491 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
492
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493JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
494 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
495
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496JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
497
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498JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
499 certificate).
500
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501JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
502 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
503 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
504 connection after a verify cache hit.
505 Do not update it with the verify result either.
506
507JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
508 when routing results in more than one destination address.
509
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510JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
511 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
512 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
513 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
514 when the cutthrough connection is made).
515
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516JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
517 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
518
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519JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
520 Previously they were not counted.
521
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522JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
523 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
524 that needed the lookup.
525
4c04137d 526JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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527 distinguished as "(=".
528
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529JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
530 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
531
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532JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
533
534JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
535 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 536
4c04137d 537JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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538 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
539
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540JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
541 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
542 compatible.
543
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544JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
545 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
546 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
547 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
548
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549JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
550
f59aaaaa 551JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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552 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
553 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 554
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555JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
556 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
557 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
558 be lost.
559
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560JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
561 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
562 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
563 itself :(
564
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565JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
566 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
567 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
568
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569JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
570 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
571 options.
572
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573JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
574
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575PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
576 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
577
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578PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
579 are not in the system include path.
580
ad7fc6eb 581JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 582 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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583 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
584 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 585
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586JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
587 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
588 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
589
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590JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
591
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592HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
593 an incoming connection.
594
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595HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
596 to rspamd.
597
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598HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
599 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 600
87cb4a16 601JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 602 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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603
604
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608JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
609 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
610 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
611 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 612
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613TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
614 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
615
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616TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
617 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
618 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
619 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
620 outgoing I= field.
621
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622JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
623 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
624 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
625 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
626 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
627 check on the next write.
628
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629HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
630 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
631 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
632 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
633 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
634
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635JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
636 mime_regex ACL conditions.
637
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638JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
639 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
640 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
641
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642JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
643 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
644 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
645 an authenticate fail is not an error.
646
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647HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
648 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
649
4c04137d 650JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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651 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
652
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653JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
654 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
655 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
656 distinct.
657
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658JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
659
660JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
661
ec0eb1a3
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662JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
663
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664JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
665 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
666
98b98887 667JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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668 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
669
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670JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
671
858e91c2
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672JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
673 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
674
675JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
676
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677JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
678 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
679
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680JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
681
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682JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
683 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 684 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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685 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
686 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
687 they will retry in-clear.
688 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
689 at installation time.
690
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691HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
692 with the $config_file variable.
693
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694JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
695 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
696 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
697 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 698 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 699
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700GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
701 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
702 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
703 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
704 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
705
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706JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
707
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708JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
709 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
710 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
711 list order is no longer honoured.
712
4c04137d 713JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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714 for DKIM processing.
715
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716JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
717 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 718
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719JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
720 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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721 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
722 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 723
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724JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
725 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
726
2d8d625b
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727JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
728 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
729
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730JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
731 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
732
f2f2c91b
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733JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
734
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735JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
736 cached by the daemon.
737
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738JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
739 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
740
379ba7d0
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741JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
742 keys are given for lookup.
743
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744JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
745 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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746 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
747 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 748
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749JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
750 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
751 server-side so match that on older versions.
752
07c73177 753JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 754 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 755 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 756
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757JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
758 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
759
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760JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
761 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
762 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 763 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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764 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
765 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
766 initial truncated version.
767
ab9152ff 768JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 769
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770JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
771
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772JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
773 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
774
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775JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
776
bc3c7bb7 777HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 778
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779JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
780 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
781 induced overflows.
782
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783JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
784 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
785 stage.
786
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787JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
788 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
789
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790JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
791 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
792 former class.
793
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794JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
795 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
796 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
797
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798JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
799 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
800 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
801 extraction. Accept either.
802
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807JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
808 expanded.
809
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810JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
811
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812JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
813 it.
814
01a4a5c5 815JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 816 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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817 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
818 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
819
cb1d7830 820JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 821 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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822 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
823
610ff438 824JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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825 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
826 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
827 TLS connections
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829JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
830 sites use this now.
831
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832JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
833 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
834 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
835 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
836 have a dsn_lasthop option.
837
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838JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
839 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 840 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 841
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842JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
843
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844JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
845 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
846
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847JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
848 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
849
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850JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
851 /defer_ok option.
852
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853JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
854 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
855
fd4d8871 856JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 857 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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858 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
859
860JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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861 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
862 specify a port-range.
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864JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
865 timeout value per server.
866
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867JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
868 now have the list separator specified.
869
8a512ed5 870JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 871 option values.
8a512ed5 872
82c0c8ea 873JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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874 under OpenSSL.
875
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876JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
877
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878JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
879 rather than the verbs used.
880
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881JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
882 from 255 to 1024 chars.
883
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884JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
885
cfab9d68 886HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 887 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 888
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889JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
890 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
891
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892HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
893 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
894
4c04137d 895JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 896
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897JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
898
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899JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
900 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 901 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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902 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
903
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904JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
905
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906JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
907 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
908
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909JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
910 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
911
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912JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
913
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914JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
915
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916JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
917
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918JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
919 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
920
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921JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
922 added for tls authenticator.
923
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924HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
925
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930TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
931 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
932 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
933 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
934 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
935 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
936 the script parsing/test process like normal.
937
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938TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
939 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
940 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
941 function when detected.
942
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943JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
944 cause callback expansion.
945
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946TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
947 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
948 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
949 instead of bool when processing it.
950
0f06b4f2 951JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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952 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
953
be36e572
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954JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
955
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956JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
957
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958TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
959
c713ca4b
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960TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
961 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 962
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963JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
964 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
965 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
966 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 967 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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968 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
969
8bc732e8
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970JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
971 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
972 exceeded it.
973
a7fec7a7
JH
974JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
975 version 3.3.6 or later.
976
4c04137d 977JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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978 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
979 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 980 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
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981 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
982 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
983 option is defined.
774ef2d7 984
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985TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
986 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
987
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988JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
989 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
990 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
991 matches.
992
e9477a08
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993JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
994 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
995 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
996
ad4c5ff9
JH
997JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
998 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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999
1000JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1001 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1002 syntax errors.
1003
3394b36a 1004JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1005
1006JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1007 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1008
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1009TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1010 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1011 tarball.
1012
ad4c5ff9
JH
1013JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1014
4c04137d 1015JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1016 Bug 1561.
1017
1018JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1019 output list separator was used.
1020
8bc732e8 1021
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1022Exim version 4.84
1023-----------------
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1024TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1025 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1026 return.
1f0ebb98 1027
a612424f 1028JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1029 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1030
1031JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1032
1033TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1034 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1035
1f0ebb98 1036
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1037Exim version 4.83
1038-----------------
1039
1040TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1041
1042 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1043 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1044 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1045 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1046 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1047 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1048
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1049TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1050 utilities have not been installed.
1051
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1052JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1053 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1054
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1055TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1056 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1057
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1058TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1059 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1060 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1061 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1062
aa26e137
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1063JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1064
5a1b8443
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1065TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1066 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1067
72c9e342
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1068PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1069 not dns_use_dnssec.
1070
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1071JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1072
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MFM
1073TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1074 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1075 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1076
8ddef691 1077TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1078 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1079 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1080 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1081 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1082 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1083
b9c2e32f
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1084JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1085
e45a1c37
JH
1086JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1087 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1088
67d81c10
JH
1089JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1090 failed delivery.
1091
b1f8e4f8
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1092JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1093
511a6c14 1094JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1095
1096JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1097 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1098
51c7471d
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1099JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1100 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1101
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1102TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1103
1e06383a
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1104JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1105
76146973
JH
1106JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1107 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1108
1109 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1110 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1111 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1112
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1113TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1114 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1115 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1116 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1117
35aba663
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1118JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1119
8c51eead 1120JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1121 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1122 lookup).
8c51eead 1123
deae092e
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1124TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1125 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1126 Schlichting.
35aba663 1127
fd3b6a4a 1128JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1129 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1130
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1131TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1132 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1133
2b4a568d
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1134JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1135
d2af03f4
HS
1136TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1137 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1138 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1139
9d1c15ef
JH
1140JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1141 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1142
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1143JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1144 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1145 hosts_request_ocsp.
1146
ed3bba5f 1147JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1148 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1149 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1150
8ccd00b1
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1151JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1152
8ded8589
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1153TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1154 Christian Aistleitner.
1155
f2de3a33
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1156JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1157
6eb02f88
TL
1158TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1159 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1160
00bff6f6
JH
1161JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1162 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1163
071c51f7
JH
1164JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1165 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1166
a6d4c44e
TF
1167TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1168 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1169
3ae173e7
ACK
1170TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1171 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1172
c13d09b8
TL
1173TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1174 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1175 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1176
0df4ab80
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1177JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1178
66be95e0
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1179PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1180 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1181 Jasper Wallace.
1182
1bd0d12b
JH
1183JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1184
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1185TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1186 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1187 CVE-2014-2972
1188
fd3b6a4a 1189
2c422e6f 1190Exim version 4.82
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1192
1193PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1194
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1195PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1196 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1197
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1198PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1199 by GnuTLS.
1200
1f4a55da
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1201PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1202 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1203 routines.
1204
13363eba 1205PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1206
66645890 1207PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1208 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1209 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1210 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1211 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1212
a3fb9793 1213PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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PP
1214 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1215 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1216 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1217 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1218 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1219
d27f98fe 1220TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1221
6822b909
TL
1222TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1223
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1224TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1225 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1226
ae0e32ee 1227TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1228 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1229 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1230
1231TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1232
e2658fff
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1233TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1234
83712b39
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1235TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1236 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1237
976b7e9f
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1238JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1239
be4a1376
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1240JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1241
ec4b68e5
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1242PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1243
d7148a07
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1244NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1245 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1246
585121e2 1247JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1248
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1249PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1250 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1251 function.
a5f239e4 1252
13d08c90
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1253PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1254 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1255
bef3ea7f
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1256JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1257 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1258 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1259
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1260JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1261
3a796370
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1262JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1263
ea722490 1264JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1265 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1266
b1b05573
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1267JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1268 Bugzilla 884.
1269
362145b5
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1270JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1271 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1272
3c0a92dc
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1273JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1274 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1275
6d7c6175
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1276PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1277 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1278 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1279
6f123593
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1280JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1281 authenticators.
1282
c8e2fc1e
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1283JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1284 for control.
1285
005ac57f
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1286PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1287
3f1df0e3
PP
1288PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1289 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1290 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1291 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1292
67bd1ab3
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1293TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1294
1295 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1296 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1297 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1298 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1299 the retry rules.
1300
1301 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1302 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1303 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1304
1305 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1306 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1307 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1308 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1309
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1310 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1311 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1312 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1313 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1314 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1315 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1316 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1317
1318 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1319 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1320
326cdc37
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1321TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1322
1323 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1324
1325 Resent-From: f
1326
1327 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1328 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1329 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1330 username as equal to the username.
1331
1332 This change corrects that bug.
1333
f62514b3
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1334GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1335 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1336 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1337
eb505532
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1338TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1339
14c7b357
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1340PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1341 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1342 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1343 NULL dereference and crash.
1344
94eaf700
PP
1345JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1346
6f5a440a
PP
1347PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1348 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1349 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1350
514ee161
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1351SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1352
fd98a5c6
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1353JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1354 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1355 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1356 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1357 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1358 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1359 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1360 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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1361 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1362 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1363 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1364
035c7f1e
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1365PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1366 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1367
ff284120
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1368PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1369 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1370 Bugzilla 880.
1371
26e72755
PP
1372PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1373 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1374 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1375 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1376 an empty string is now equivalent.
1377
0fbd9bff
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1378PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1379 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1380 not performing validation itself.
1381
700d22f3
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1382PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1383 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1384
fcc8e047
JH
1385JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1386 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1387
4c04137d 1388TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1389
8c020188
PP
1390PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1391 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1392 other false fix of the same issue.
1393 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1394 Bugzilla 1363.
1395
d13cdd30
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1396PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1397 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1398
e2fbf4a2
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1399PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1400 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1401 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1402
f4c1088b
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1403PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1404 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1405 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1406
c5c2182f
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1407TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1408
73431ca9
JH
1409JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1410
2d07a215
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1411TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1412 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1413
a30a8861
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1414TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1415 Alexander Miroch.
1416
33382dd9
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1417TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1418 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1419 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1420 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1421 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1422
046172e6
TL
1423TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1424 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1425
581d7bee 1426TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1427 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1428 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1429
1430TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1431 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1432 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1433 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1434
237b2cf2
TL
1435TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1436
9fc5a352
TL
1437TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1438 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1439 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1440
b10e4ec2
TL
1441TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1442
e2cebd74
TL
1443TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1444 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1445 interaction.
1446
1447TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1448 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1449
2519e60d
TL
1450TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1451 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1452
e78e6ecf 1453
4263f395
PP
1454Exim version 4.80.1
1455-------------------
1456
1457PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1458 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1459 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1460
ea722490 1461
b1770b6e 1462Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1463-----------------
1464
1465PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1466 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1467 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1468
23c7e742
NM
1469NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1470
b322aac8
NM
1471NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1472 improved.
1473
4a891427
NM
1474NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1475
c1e794ba 1476PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1477
97753960
PP
1478PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1479
1480PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1481 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1482
df6303fa
PP
1483PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1484 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1485
7e6a8985
PP
1486PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1487 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1488
f1e05cc7 1489PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1490 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1491 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1492
4c287009
PP
1493PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1494
b98bb9ac
PP
1495PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1496 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1497
4a6a987a
PP
1498PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1499
c45dd180 1500PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1501
7db8d074
PP
1502PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1503 non-compliant senders.
1504 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1505
eae0036b 1506NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1507 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1508 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1509
dec5017e
PP
1510PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1511 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1512 in spool file corruption.
1513
c80c5570
PP
1514PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1515 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1516 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1517 "Got SSL error 2".
1518
076b11e2
PP
1519TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1520 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1521 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1522
5407bfff
JH
1523JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1524 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1525
9e45c72b
PP
1526JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1527
e74376d8
PP
1528PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1529 diagnostics.
1530 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1531
4c04137d 1532PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1533 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1534 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1535
7be682ca
PP
1536PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1537 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1538 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1539 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1540
ef840681
PP
1541PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1542 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1543
5bfb4cdf
PP
1544PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1545 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1546 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1547 resolver implementation change.
1548
c6e95d22
PP
1549PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1550 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1551
9cbad13b
PP
1552PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1553
9ee44efb
PP
1554PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1555
6a6084f8
PP
1556PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1557 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1558
12dd53c7
PP
1559PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1560 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1561
9e45c72b 1562JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1563 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1564
17c76198
PP
1565PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1566 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1567 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1568 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1569 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1570
53947857 1571PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1572
eae0036b 1573PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1574 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1575 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1576
9e45c72b 1577JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1578
7390e768
PP
1579PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1580 read-only, out of scope).
1581 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1582
08488c86
PP
1583PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1584 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1585 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1586 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1587
6475bd82
PP
1588PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1589
81f91683
PP
1590PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1591 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1592 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1593 real issues in debug logging.
1594
5779e6aa
PP
1595PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1596 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1597
3375e053
PP
1598PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1599 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1600 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1601
1602PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1603 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1604 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1605 problems.
3375e053 1606
9d26b8c0
PP
1607PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1608 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1609
57eb9e91 1610PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1611 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1612 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1613 needs to override this, it can.
1614
16880d1a
PP
1615PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1616 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1617 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1618
a799883d
PP
1619PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1620 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1621 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1622 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1623
3ecab157 1624PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1625
0599f9cf 1626
867fcbf5
PP
1627Exim version 4.77
1628-----------------
1629
1630PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1631 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1632
f1a29782
TF
1633TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1634
ab42bd23
TK
1635TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1636 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1637
0ca0cf52
TF
1638TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1639 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1640
921b12ca
TF
1641TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1642 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1643 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1644
1645 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1646 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1647 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1648 not safe for signals.
1649
1650 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1651 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1652 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1653 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1654 exiwhat.
1655
c99ce5c9
TF
1656TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1657
1658 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1659 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1660 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1661 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1662 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1663
1664 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1665 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1666 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1667 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1668 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1669 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1670
1671 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1672 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1673 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1674 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1675
1676 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1677 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1678 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1679 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1680
1681 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1682 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1683 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1684 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1685 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1686 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1687 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1688 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1689 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1690
1691 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1692 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1693 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1694 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1695
1696 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1697 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1698 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1699 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1700 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1701 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1702 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1703 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1704 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1705 details in the main documentation.
1706
3634fc25
TF
1707TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1708
792e8a19
TF
1709TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1710
5901f0ab
TF
1711TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1712 repository when doing development or release builds.
1713
7f2a2a43
PP
1714PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1715 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1716
061b7ebd
PP
1717PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1718 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1719 Bugzilla 97.
1720
e12f8c32
PP
1721PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1722
9e949f00 1723PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1724 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1725
1726PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1727 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1728
555ae6af 1729PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1730 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1731
1732PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1733 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1734
6f7fe114
PP
1735PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1736 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1737
c566dd90
PP
1738PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1739 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1740 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1741 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1742
d6cc7c78 1743PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1744 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1745 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1746
0d0e4455
PP
1747PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1748
3399bb60 1749PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1750
1751PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1752 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1753
0ca0cf52 1754
10906672
PP
1755Exim version 4.76
1756-----------------
1757
1758PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1759
754a0503
PP
1760PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1761 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1762
c0c7b2da
PP
1763PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1764
e97d1f08
PP
1765PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1766
084c1d8c
PP
1767PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1768 Bugzilla 1098.
1769
4e7ee012
PP
1770PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1771 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1772
c8d52a00
PP
1773TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1774 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1775
54e7ce4a
PP
1776PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1777 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1778
5ee6f336
PP
1779PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1780 Bugzilla 1104.
1781
c8d52a00 1782TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1783 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1784
1785TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1786 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1787 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1788 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1789
1790PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1791 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1792
10906672 1793
aa097c4c
NM
1794Exim version 4.75
1795-----------------
1796
4c04137d 1797NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1798 Bugzilla 1073
1799
7f3d9eff
TF
1800TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1801 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1802 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1803
159f52d2
TF
1804TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1805 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1806
0cc9542a
PP
1807PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1808 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1809 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1810
f7274286
PP
1811PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1812 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1813
7b797365
PP
1814PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1815 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1816
caacae52
NM
1817NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1818 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1819
09dcaba9
NM
1820NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1821 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1822
bc19a55b
PP
1823PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1824 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1825
bd4c9759
NM
1826NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1827 Fixes bug 943.
1828
b72aab72
PP
1829PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1830 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1831
2fe76745
PP
1832PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1833 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1834
76aa570c
PP
1835PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1836 SQL string expansion failure details.
1837 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1838
f1e5fef5
PP
1839PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1840 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1841
4d805ee9
PP
1842PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1843 extern declarations in function scope.
1844 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1845
cd59ab18
PP
1846PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1847 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1848 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1849 a kernel bug).
1850
332f5cf3
PP
1851PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1852 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1853
29cfeb94
PP
1854PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1855 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1856
660242ad
PP
1857PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1858 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1859
bc4bc4c5
PP
1860PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1861 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1862
2e64baa9
NM
1863NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1864 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1865 Dennis Davis.
1866
4c04137d 1867PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1868
6bac1a9a
PP
1869PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1870
552193f0
NM
1871NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1872 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1873
1b587e48
TF
1874TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1875 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1876
aa097c4c 1877
8c07b69f
TF
1878Exim version 4.74
1879-----------------
1880
1881TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1882 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1883
c0ea85ab
TF
1884TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1885 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1886
0761d44e
TF
1887TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1888
0a349494
PP
1889DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1890 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1891 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1892
1893PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1894 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1895 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1896
fea24b2e
PP
1897PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1898 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1899 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1900 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1901
6545de78
PP
1902PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1903 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1904 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1905 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1906
1670ef10
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1907PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1908 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1909 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1910 arbitrary files.
1911
c0886197
PP
1912PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1913 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1914
b7487bce
PP
1915PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1916 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1917 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1918 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1919 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1920
8c07b69f 1921
97fd1e48 1922Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1923-----------------
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1924
1925PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1926 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1927 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1928
6901c596
PP
1929PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1930 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1931
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1932JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1933
77bb000f
PP
1934PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1935
a29e5231
PP
1936PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1937
ec5a0394 1938PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1939
55c75993
PP
1940PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1941
453a6645 1942PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1943 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1944 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1945 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1946
8544e77a
PP
1947PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1948 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1949 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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1950 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1951 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1952
83e029d5
PP
1953PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1954
ed7f7860
PP
1955PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1956
7d9f747b
PP
1957PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1958
4b2241d2
PP
1959PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1960
10385c15
PP
1961PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1962
dbc4b90d
PP
1963PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1964
532be449
PP
1965PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1966
6a8de854 1967PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1968 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1969 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1970
5dc43717
JJ
1971JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1972
1973JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1974 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1975
3346ab01
PP
1976PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1977 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1978
491fab4c
PP
1979PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1980 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1981 Notification from John Horne.
1982
13eb9497
PP
1983PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1984 compatible.
1985
1986PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1987 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1988 it normally works.
1989
7f36d675
DW
1990DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1991 access.
1992
c1d94452
DW
1993DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1994 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1995 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1996
e2f5dc15
DW
1997DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1998 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1999 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2000 configuration file.
2001
cd25e41d
DW
2002DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2003 option (effectively making it always true).
2004
261dc43e
DW
2005DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2006 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2007
fa32850b
DW
2008DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2009 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2010
79d4bc3d
PP
2011PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2012 run-time user, instead of root.
2013
43236f35 2014PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2015 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2016
fb08281f
DW
2017DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2018 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2019 arguments.
3346ab01 2020
74935b98
DW
2021DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2022 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2023 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2024
90b6341f
DW
2025DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2026
57730b52
ML
2027NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2028
66581d1e 2029
465e92cf
JJ
2030Exim version 4.72
2031-----------------
2032
453a6645
PP
2033JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2034 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2035 typos
465e92cf 2036
453a6645
PP
2037JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2038 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2039 (Finput)
edae0343 2040
9bd3e22c
NM
2041NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2042 Patch from Alain Williams
2043
bb576ff7
NM
2044NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2045
5a1a5845
NM
2046NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2047 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2048
981a9fad
NM
2049NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2050 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2051
7fc497ee
NM
2052NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2053
1a41defa
JJ
2054JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2055
a466095c 2056NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2057 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2058
94a6bd0b
NM
2059TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2060
2061TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2062
2063MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2064 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2065 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2066
c1b141a8
NM
2067NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2068 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2069
b26eacf1 2070NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2071 Patch by Simon Arlott
2072
179c5980 2073PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2074 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2075
9bd3e22c 2076
7c6d71af
NM
2077Exim version 4.71
2078-----------------
2079
7d9f747b 2080TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2081
f013fb92
NM
2082NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2083
0eb8eedd
NM
2084NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2085
663ee6d9
NM
2086NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2087
177ebd9b
NM
2088NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2089
7c6d71af 2090
210f147e
NM
2091Exim version 4.70
2092-----------------
2093
cdd3bb85 2094TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2095 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2096
2097TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2098 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2099 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2100
2101TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2102 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2103 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2104
2105TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2106 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2107
210f147e
NM
2108NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2109 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2110 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2111 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2112
deafd5b3
NM
2113NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2114 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2115 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2116
089793a4
TF
2117TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2118
5f16ca82
TF
2119TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2120
dae9d94e 2121NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2122 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2123
7d9f747b 2124NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2125
06864c44
TF
2126TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2127 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2128 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2129 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2130
65a7d8c3 2131NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2132 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2133
23510047 2134TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2135
7d9f747b 2136NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2137
7d8eec3a 2138NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2139 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2140
89dec7b6
TF
2141TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2142 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2143
a99de90c
TF
2144TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2145 that they are available at delivery time.
2146
e2803e40
TF
2147TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2148
7199e1ee
TF
2149TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2150 incoming_port log selectors.
2151
e276e04b
TF
2152TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2153 setting expands to an empty string.
2154
ce552449 2155NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2156 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2157
e765a0f1 2158NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2159 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2160
4f054c63 2161NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2162 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2163
7d9f747b
PP
2164NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2165 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2166
7d9f747b
PP
2167NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2168 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2169
b52bc06e 2170NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2171 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2172
447de4b0
NM
2173NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2174
4c69d561 2175NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2176 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2177
d5c39246 2178NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2179 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2180
0b23848a
TK
2181TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2182
8f3414a1 2183NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2184 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2185
fb6f955d
NM
2186NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2187
2188NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2189
7d9f747b
PP
2190NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2191 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2192
7d9f747b
PP
2193NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2194 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2195
7d9f747b
PP
2196NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2197 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2198
7d9f747b
PP
2199NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2200 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2201
7d9f747b
PP
2202NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2203 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2204
7d9f747b
PP
2205NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2206 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2207
7d9f747b
PP
2208NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2209 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2210
7d9f747b 2211NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2212 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2213
7d9f747b 2214NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2215
7d9f747b
PP
2216NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2217 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2218
7d9f747b 2219NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2220
7d9f747b 2221NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2222
7d9f747b 2223NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2224
7d9f747b 2225NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2226
17792b53 2227NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2228 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2229
7d9f747b
PP
2230NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2231 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2232
91576cec 2233NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2234 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2235
7d9f747b
PP
2236NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2237 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2238
7d9f747b 2239NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2240
7d9f747b 2241NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2242
7d9f747b 2243NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2244
7d9f747b 2245NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2246
deafd5b3 2247
47db1125
NM
2248Exim version 4.69
2249-----------------
2250
4b3504d0
TK
2251TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2252 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2253 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2254
2255 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2256 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2257 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2258 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2259 build errors in sieve.c.
2260
81ea09ca
NM
2261NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2262 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2263 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2264
f13cddcb
SC
2265SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2266
7d9f747b 2267NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2268
7d9f747b 2269NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2270
7d9f747b 2271NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2272
2273
eb4c0de6
PH
2274Exim version 4.68
2275-----------------
2276
2277PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2278
6a3bceb1
PH
2279PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2280 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2281 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2282 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2283 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2284 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2285 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2286 for iplsearch lookups.
2287
2288 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2289 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2290 previously such lookups could never work.
2291
4c04137d 2292 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2293 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2294 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2295
2e30fa9d
TK
2296TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2297 version.
2298
0806a9c5
MH
2299MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2300 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2301 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2302 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2303 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2304 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2305
ae276964
TK
2306TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2307 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2308
0f2cbd1b
MH
2309MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2310 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2311 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2312 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2313 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2314 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2315
2b85bce7
PH
2316PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2317 local_scan API.
2318
93655c46
PH
2319PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2320
6c512171
PH
2321PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2322 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2323 encrypted.
2324
2325PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2326 by clients under certain conditions.
2327
aa6dc513
PH
2328PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2329 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2330
a96603a0
PH
2331PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2332
8f240103
PH
2333PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2334 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2335
2336PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2337
d677b2f2
PH
2338PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2339
d52120f2
PH
2340PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2341
64f2600a
PH
2342PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2343 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2344
8669f003
PH
2345PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2346
a4dc33a8
PH
2347PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2348 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2349
d6a60c0f
PH
2350PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2351
8f128379
PH
2352PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2353
8932dffe
PH
2354PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2355 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2356 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2357 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2358
ddea74fa 2359PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2360 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2361 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2362
ddea74fa 2363PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2364 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2365
ddea74fa
PH
2366PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2367
ce9f225c
PH
2368PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2369
19897d52
PH
2370PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2371
bc64a74d
PH
2372PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2373 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2374 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2375
eb4c0de6 2376
b4ed4da0
PH
2377Exim version 4.67
2378-----------------
2379
22ad45c9
MH
2380MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2381 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2382 Jan Srzednicki.
2383
b4ed4da0
PH
2384PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2385 issue a MAIL command.
2386
431b7361
PH
2387PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2388
2389 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2390
2391 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2392 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2393 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2394 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2395 item. This has been fixed.
2396
2397PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2398 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2399
83da1223
PH
2400PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2401 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2402
54fc8428
PH
2403PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2404 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2405 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2406
34c5e8dd
SC
2407SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2408
bbe15da8
PH
2409PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2410 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2411 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2412 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2413 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2414
0e8a9471
MH
2415MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2416 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2417 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2418
f0872424
PH
2419PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2420 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2421 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2422 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2423
b01dd148
PH
2424PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2425
6bf342e1
PH
2426PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2427
273f34d0
PH
2428PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2429 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2430 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2431 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2432 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2433
cf8b11a5
PH
2434PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2435
41c7c167
PH
2436PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2437 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2438 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2439 values).
2440
9c57cbc0
PH
2441PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2442
f3f065bb
PH
2443PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2444
047bdd8c
PH
2445PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2446
0ce9abe6
PH
2447PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2448
0e22dfd1
PH
2449PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2450
4c590bd1
PH
2451PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2452 no_callout_flush is set.
2453
09945f1e
PH
2454PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2455 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2456 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2457 fixed.
2458
c51b8e75
PH
2459PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2460
e28326d8 2461PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2462 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2463 other ACL rejections are.
2464
75b1493f
PH
2465PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2466 with slight modification.
2467
7c5214ec
PH
2468PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2469 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2470
4311097e
PH
2471PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2472 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2473 connection.
2474
29f89cad
PH
2475PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2476 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2477
5e687460
SC
2478SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2479
c3611384
PH
2480PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2481 expansion side effects.
2482
5a11a7b4
PH
2483PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2484 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2485 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2486 be the same.
2487
0e20aff9
MH
2488MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2489 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2490 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2491
ca86f471
PH
2492PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2493 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2494 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2495 were accidentally chopped off.
2496
a14e5636
PH
2497PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2498 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2499 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2500 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2501 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2502 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2503 pipelining has not been advertised.
2504
ec95d1a6
PH
2505PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2506
42855d71
PH
2507PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2508 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2509 This has been fixed.
2510
57c2c631
PH
2511PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2512 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2513 reported on Solaris.
2514
58c01c94
PH
2515PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2516 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2517 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2518 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2519 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2520 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2521 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2522
dee5a20a
PH
2523PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2524 cpus.
2525
d2ee6114
PH
2526PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2527
b2d5182b
PH
2528PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2529
79749a79
PH
2530PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2531 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2532 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2533 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2534 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2535 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2536
c456d9bb
PH
2537PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2538 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2539 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2540 host_all_ignored option.
2541
cd9868ec
PH
2542PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2543 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2544 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2545 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2546 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2547 is what is supposed to happen).
2548
ebeaf996
PH
2549PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2550 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2551 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2552 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2553 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2554 uses the Exim user.
2555
2679d413
PH
2556PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2557 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2558 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2559 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2560 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2561 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2562 users.
2563
84024b72
PH
2564PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2565
8005d38e
SC
2566SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2567 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2568 (Jez Hancock).
2569 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2570 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2571
3298c6c6
SC
2572SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2573
a43a27c5
PH
2574PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2575
58eb016e 2576PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2577 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2578 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2579 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2580 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2581 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2582 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2583 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2584 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2585 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2586 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2587
b43a74ea
PH
2588PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2589 advertised in response to EHLO.
2590
b4ed4da0 2591
5dd1517f
PH
2592Exim version 4.66
2593-----------------
2594
2595PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2596 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2597
2598 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2599 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2600
2601 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2602 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2603 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2604
2605 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2606 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2607 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2608 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2609 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2610
2611
93cfa765
TK
2612Exim version 4.65
2613-----------------
2614
2615TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2616 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2617 versions. (#438)
2618
d6066548
MH
2619MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2620 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2621 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2622
4362ff0d
PH
2623PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2624 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2625 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2626 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2627 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2628 rather than extend the field.
2629
93cfa765 2630
944e9e9c
TF
2631Exim version 4.64
2632-----------------
aa41d2de 2633
21d74bd9
TK
2634TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2635 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2636 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2637 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2638 these files.
2639
2640TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2641 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2642 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2643
2644TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2645 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2646 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2647
2648TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2649 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2650 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2651 in the field name.
2652
2b1c6e3a
PH
2653PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2654 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2655 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2656 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2657 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2658 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2659 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2660 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2661 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2662 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2663 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2664
1f872c80
PH
2665PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2666 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2667
2668PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2669 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2670 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2671 ignores EPIPE as well.
2672
d203e649
PH
2673PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2674 (quoted-printable decoding).
2675
cc2ed8f7 2676PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2677 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2678
ddfcd446
PH
2679PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2680
d45b1de8
PH
2681PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2682
2683PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2684
38a0a95f 2685PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2686 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2687
a2405d83
JJ
2688JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2689 in 4.64-PH/09.
2690
2691JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2692 miscellaneous code fixes
2693
6ea85e9a
PH
2694PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2695 rejections.
2696
26da7e20
PH
2697PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2698 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2699 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2700 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2701 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2702 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2703 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2704 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2705
14aa5a05 2706PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2707 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2708 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2709 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2710 function.
2711 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2712 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2713 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2714 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2715 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2716 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2717 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2718 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2719 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2720
ff75a1f7
PH
2721PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2722 decoding.
2723
e6f6568e
PH
2724PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2725 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2726 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2727 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2728 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2729 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2730 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2731 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2732
d6f6e0dc
PH
2733PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2734 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2735 list.
2736
322050c2
PH
2737PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2738 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2739 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2740 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2741 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2742 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2743 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2744 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2745 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2746 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2747 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2748 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2749 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2750
08955dd3
PH
2751PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2752 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2753 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2754 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2755 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2756 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2757 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2758
1eccaa59
PH
2759PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2760 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2761 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2762 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2763 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2764 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2765 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2766 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2767 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2768 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2769
602e59e5
PH
2770PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2771 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2772 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2773 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2774 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2775
411ef850
PH
2776PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2777 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2778 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2779 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2780 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2781 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2782 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2783
7befa435
PH
2784PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2785 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2786 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2787 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2788 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2789 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2790 been verified.
2791
48da4259 2792PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2793 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2794 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2795 and authorization.)
2796
48da4259
PH
2797PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2798 if any retry times were supplied.
2799
d1d5595c
PH
2800PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2801 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2802 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2803
0ef732d9
PH
2804PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2805
328895cc
PH
2806PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2807
fd700877
PH
2808PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2809 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2810 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2811 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2812 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2813 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2814
8dce1a6f
PH
2815PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2816 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2817
17af4a17
PH
2818PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2819 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2820 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2821
2822PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2823 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2824 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2825 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2826 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2827 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2828 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2829 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2830 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2831
2832 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2833 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2834 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2835 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2836 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2837 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2838 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2839 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2840 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2841
2842 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2843 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2844 hammering the server.
2845
c1114884
PH
2846PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2847 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2848
7a0743eb
PH
2849PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2850
0d85fa3f
PH
2851PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2852 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2853 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2854
1bf43b78
PH
2855PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2856 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2857 one case where this was not true.
2858
520de300
PH
2859PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2860 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2861 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2862 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2863 fails.
2864
48c7f9e2
PH
2865PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2866 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2867 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2868 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2869 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2870 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2871 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2872 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2873 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2874 smtp transport.
2875
99ea1c86
PH
2876PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2877 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2878 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2879 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2880
a2042e78
PH
2881PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2882 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2883
4fbcfc2e
PH
2884PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2885 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2886 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2887
aa41d2de
PH
2888PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2889
af561417
PH
2890PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2891
3cc66b45
PH
2892PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2893
194cc0e4
PH
2894PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2895 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2896 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2897 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2898
a401ddaa
PH
2899PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2900 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2901
4e88a19f
PH
2902PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2903 be meaningful with "accept".
2904
d7d7b289
SC
2905SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2906 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2907
2908SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2909 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2910 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2911
2912SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2913 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2914 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2915 there is data to show.
2916 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2917
2918SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2919 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2920 as well as the number of messages.
2921
2922SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2923 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2924 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2925
2926SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2927 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2928 have a flag are now skipped.
2929
2930SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2931 Added the -emptyok flag.
2932
2933SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2934 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2935
0ea2a468
JJ
2936JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2937 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2938 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2939
2940JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2941 match 4.64-PH/13
2942
2943JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2944 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2945
2946JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2947
2948JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2949 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2950
8a10f5a4
PH
2951PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2952
30e18802
PH
2953PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2954 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2955 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2956 contravention of the specifications.
2957
55728a4f
PH
2958PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2959 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2960 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2961
d7837193
PH
2962PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2963 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2964 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2965
87054a31
PH
2966PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2967
ea2c01d2
MH
2968MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2969 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2970 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2971 some point in the past.
2972
e4fa6968
PH
2973PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2974 transport during callout processing was broken.
2975
56f5d9bd
PH
2976PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2977 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2978
922e1c28
PH
2979PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2980 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2981
21eb6e72
PH
2982PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2983 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2984
a0540757
PH
2985PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2986
944e9e9c 2987
478be7b0
SC
2988Exim version 4.63
2989-----------------
2990
2991SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2992 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2993
2994SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2995 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2996 there is data to show.
2997 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2998
2999SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3000 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3001
2b965a65
TF
3002TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3003 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3004
45b91596
PH
3005TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3006 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3007
c59f5781
TF
3008TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3009 submissions from trusted users.
3010
90fc3069
TF
3011TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3012 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3013
6083aca0
TF
3014TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3015 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3016 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3017 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3018 there is now a framework to start from.
3019
765b530f
PH
3020PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3021 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3022 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3023
4e167a8c
PH
3024PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3025
4608d683
PH
3026PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3027
b8dc3e4a
PH
3028PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3029
5418e93b
PH
3030PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3031 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3032 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3033
b4a9bda2
PH
3034PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3035 libradius.
3036
45b91596
PH
3037PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3038 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3039 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3040
5547e2c5
PH
3041PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3042 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3043 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3044 its arguments.
3045
dbcef0ea
PH
3046PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3047 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3048 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3049 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3050 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3051
25257489
PH
3052PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3053 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3054
c816d124
PH
3055PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3056
a9ccd69a
PH
3057PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3058 operations in malware.c.
3059
75fa1910
PH
3060PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3061 signatures.
3062
a7d7aa58
PH
3063PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3064 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3065 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3066 all.
3067
42119b09
PH
3068PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3069 statements to "add_header".
3070
41609df5
PH
3071PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3072 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3073
a5bd321b
PH
3074PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3075 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3076 latter.
3077
e85a7ad5 3078PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3079 so that it is now:
3080
e85a7ad5
PH
3081 ${if or { \
3082 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3083 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3084 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3085 }{no}{yes}}
3086
e85a7ad5
PH
3087 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3088 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3089
d8fe1c03
PH
3090PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3091 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3092
16282d2b
PH
3093PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3094 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3095 any possible encoding problems.
3096
35d40a98
PH
3097PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3098 but not after initializing Perl.
3099
034d99ab
PH
3100PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3101 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3102 apparently, which is not desirable.
3103
6ec97b1b
PH
3104PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3105 queries.
3106
e22ca4ac
JJ
3107JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3108 --not options
3109
3110JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3111
33d73e3b
PH
3112PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3113 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3114 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3115 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3116
9ecb03f3
PH
3117PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3118 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3119 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3120
084efe8d
PH
3121PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3122 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3123 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3124 0.12.
3125
366fc9f0
PH
3126PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3127 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3128 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3129 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3130 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3131
c59f5781 3132
c887c79e
TF
3133Exim version 4.62
3134-----------------
3135
3136TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3137 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3138
1cce3af8
PH
3139PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3140 patch).
3141
afb3eaaf
PH
3142PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3143 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3144 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3145 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3146 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3147 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3148 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3149 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3150 451 error is used.
3151
e173618b
PH
3152PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3153
dd16e114
PH
3154PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3155 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3156 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3157
f7fd3850
PH
3158PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3159 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3160 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3161 odd errors.
3162
d87df92c
PH
3163PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3164 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3165
7e9f683d
PH
3166PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3167 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3168 option (which defaults to 0600).
3169
bfad5236
PH
3170PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3171
01c490df
PH
3172PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3173 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3174 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3175 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3176 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3177 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3178 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3179
d6629cdc
PH
3180PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3181
1cce3af8 3182
214e2000
PH
3183Exim version 4.61
3184-----------------
3185
3186PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3187 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3188 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3189 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3190 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3191 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3192 addresses as local.
3193
f9daeae0
PH
3194PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3195 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3196
7e66e54d
PH
3197PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3198
c8ea1597
PH
3199PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3200 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3201 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3202 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3203 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3204 grumble.
3205
911f6fde
PH
3206PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3207 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3208
47ca6d6c
PH
3209PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3210 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3211 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3212 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3213 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3214
ed0e9820
PH
3215PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3216 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3217 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3218 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3219
eff37e47
PH
3220PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3221 be the same on different OS.
3222
1921d2ea
PH
3223PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3224 testing.
3225
b3f69ca8
JJ
3226JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3227 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3228
3229JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3230 in 4.61-PH/06
3231
424a1c63
PH
3232PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3233 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3234 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3235 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3236 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3237 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3238 bounce message.
3239
7a100415
PH
3240PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3241 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3242 when Exim was called.
3243
19b9dc85
PH
3244PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3245 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3246
309bd837
PH
3247PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3248 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3249 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3250 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3251
59e82a2a
PH
3252PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3253 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3254 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3255 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3256 changes:
3257
3258 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3259 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3260 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3261
3262 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3263 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3264 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3265
9edc04ce
PH
3266PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3267 feature).
3268
1349e1e5
PH
3269PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3270 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3271 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3272 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3273 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3274 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3275 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3276 values from the SRV records were lost.
3277
ea49d0e1
PH
3278PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3279 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3280 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3281
064a94c9
PH
3282PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3283 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3284 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3285
727071f8
PH
3286PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3287 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3288 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3289 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3290 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3291 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3292 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3293 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3294 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3295 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3296
f78eb7c6
PH
3297PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3298 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3299 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3300
21c28500
PH
3301PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3302 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3303
3304PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3305 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3306 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3307 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3308 is given.
3309
1688f43b
PH
3310PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3311 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3312 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3313
3314PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3315 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3316 PH/23 above applies.
3317
9675b384
PH
3318PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3319 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3320 (for which there is an explicit test).
3321
6a3f1455
PH
3322PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3323
dac79d3e
PH
3324PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3325 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3326 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3327 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3328 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3329
5977a0b3
PH
3330PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3331 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3332 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3333 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3334
c91535f3
PH
3335PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3336 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3337 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3338
0d46a8c8
PH
3339PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3340
278c6e6c
PH
3341PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3342
2cbb4081
PH
3343PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3344 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3345 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3346
3eef829e
PH
3347PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3348 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3349 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3350 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3351 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3352
1ab95fa6
PH
3353PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3354 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3355 the message gets confusing).
3356
230205fc
PH
3357PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3358 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3359 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3360 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3361
75e0e026
PH
3362PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3363 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3364 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3365 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3366 same order.
3367
3368PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3369 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3370 the different processes.
3371
145396a6
PH
3372PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3373
3cd34f13
PH
3374PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3375
11121d3d
JJ
3376JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3377 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3378
3379JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3380 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3381
3382JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3383 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3384 messages matching specified criteria.
3385
8def5aaf
PH
3386PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3387
929ba01c
PH
3388PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3389 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3390
2632889e
PH
3391PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3392 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3393 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3394 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3395 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3396 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3397 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3398 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3399 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3400 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3401
944a9c55
PH
3402PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3403 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3404 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3405
4a23603b
PH
3406PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3407
4730f942
PH
3408PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3409 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3410 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3411 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3412 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3413 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3414 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3415 the variable.
3416
30dba1e6
PH
3417PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3418 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3419
382afc6b
PH
3420PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3421
a86229cf
PH
3422PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3423
50c99ba6
PH
3424PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3425
d35e429d
PH
3426PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3427 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3428 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3429 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3430 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3431 size of the count of files.
3432
f90d018c
PH
3433PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3434
75def545
PH
3435PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3436 used in LMTP mode:
3437
3438 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3439 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3440 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3441 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3442
3443 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3444 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3445 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3446
3447PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3448 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3449 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3450 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3451 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3452
c46782ef
PH
3453PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3454 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3455
71fafd95
PH
3456PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3457 will now be deprecated.
3458
2c5db4fd
PH
3459PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3460
9cf6b11a
JJ
3461JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3462 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3463 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3464
3465JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3466 with very large, slow to parse queues
3467
3468JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3469
3470JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3471
898d150f
PH
3472PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3473 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3474 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3475 SMTP output lines.
3476
46218253
PH
3477PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3478 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3479 Sieve code now uses this.
3480
e97957bc
PH
3481PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3482 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3483
81e509d7
PH
3484PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3485 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3486
3d240ff7
PH
3487PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3488
b37c4101
PH
3489PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3490 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3491 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3492 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3493 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3494
79378e0f
PH
3495PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3496 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3497 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3498 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3499
e49c7bb4
PH
3500PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3501
d114ec46
PH
3502PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3503
f3d7df6c
PH
3504PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3505 is preferred over IPv4.
3506
715ab376
PH
3507PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3508 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3509 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3510 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3511 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3512 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3513 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3514
6b31b150
PH
3515PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3516 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3517 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3518
3519PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3520
d515a917
PH
3521PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3522 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3523 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3524 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3525 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3526 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3527 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3528 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3529 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3530 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3531 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3532
9b8fadde
PH
3533PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3534 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3535 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3536
214e2000 3537
5de37277
PH
3538Exim version 4.60
3539-----------------
3540
cc38ddbf
PH
3541PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3542
3543 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3544 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3545
3546 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3547 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3548 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3549
72fdd6ae
PH
3550PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3551
3552 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3553 not a single digit.
3554
3555 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3556 string.
3557
3558 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3559 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3560 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3561 silly things.
3562
3563 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3564 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3565
3566 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3567 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3568
cb741023
PH
3569PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3570 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3571 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3572
f174f16e
PH
3573PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3574 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3575
c25242d7
PH
3576PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3577 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3578
3579 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3580
3581 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3582 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3583 this:
3584
3585 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3586
82c19f95
PH
3587PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3588 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3589 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3590 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3591 identical. For example:
3592
3593 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3594
3595 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3596 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3597 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3598
d7ffbc12
PH
3599PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3600 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3601 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3602 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3603
9f526266
PH
3604PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3605 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3606 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3607 message.
3608
87fcc8b9
PH
3609PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3610
3611 o fixes some comments
3612 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3613 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3614 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3615 and documents the missing references header update
3616
3617 and most important:
3618
3619 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3620 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3621 result)
3622
456682f5
PH
3623PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3624 Electronic Mail") by including:
3625
3626 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3627
3628 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3629 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3630 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3631 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3632 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3633
3634 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3635
3636 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3637
3638 The auto-replied keyword:
3639
3640 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3641 message by an automatic process,
3642
3643 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3644
3645 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3646 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3647
3648 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3649 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3650 other messages.
3651
3e46c1aa
PH
3652PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3653 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3654
49826d12
PH
3655PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3656
eba0c039
PH
3657PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3658 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3659 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3660
a0d6ba8a
PH
3661PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3662 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3663 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3664
f0917727
PH
3665PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3666 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3667 and treats the condition as false.
3668
096fee00
PH
3669PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3670
024bd3c2
PH
3671PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3672 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3673 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3674 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3675 not changing the active code.
3676
3677 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3678 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3679
3680 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3681 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3682
df199fec
PH
3683PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3684 (Bugzilla #53).
3685
d27f1df3
PH
3686PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3687 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3688 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3689 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3690 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3691 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3692 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3693 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3694 the text comparison.
3695
96776534
PH
3696PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3697 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3698 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3699 The same fix has been applied.
3700
5de37277 3701
9a799bc0
PH
3702Exim version 4.54
3703-----------------
3704
3705PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3706 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3707 It now does.
3708
99a4b039
PH
3709PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3710 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3711
3712PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3713
4b233853
PH
3714PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3715 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3716 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3717 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3718 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3719
8857ccfd
PH
3720TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3721 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3722 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3723 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3724 or /domain=).
3725
433a2980
PH
3726PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3727 testing suite.
3728
3e46c1aa 3729
9a799bc0 3730
e3a311ba
TK
3731Exim version 4.53
3732-----------------
3733
3734TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3735 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3736
13b685f9
PH
3737PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3738
395ff96d
PH
3739PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3740
5b68f6e4
PH
3741PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3742 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3743 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3744
1ab52c69
PH
3745PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3746 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3747 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3748
b07e6aa3
PH
3749PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3750 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3751 operating systems.
3752
254e032f
PH
3753PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3754 ${stat: expansion item.
3755
3af76a81
PH
3756PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3757 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3758
2548ba04
PH
3759PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3760 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3761 file for comments.
3762
b6c6011d
PH
3763PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3764
cf39cf57
PH
3765PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3766 setting.
3767
f1513293
PH
3768PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3769 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3770
727549a4
PH
3771TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3772
af46795e
PH
3773PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3774 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3775 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3776 the end of the subprocess.
3777
d7b47fd0
PH
3778PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3779 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3780 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3781 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3782 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3783
ee744174
JJ
3784JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3785
b582ab87
PH
3786TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3787
41a13e0a
PH
3788PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3789 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3790
f625cc5a
PH
3791PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3792
3793PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3794
21f7af35
PH
3795PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3796 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3797 HP-UX compiler.
3798
31480e42
PH
3799PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3800
2d280592
PH
3801PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3802 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3803 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3804
7cd1141b
PH
3805PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3806 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3807
3808PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3809 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3810
750af86e
PH
3811PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3812 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3813
3814 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3815 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3816
3817 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3818 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3819 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3820 contributed by a Radius user.
3821
3822PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3823 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3824
4304270b
TK
3825TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3826 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3827
750af86e
PH
3828PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3829 available.
3830
64ffc24f
PH
3831PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3832 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3833 received.
3834
5dd9625b
PH
3835PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3836 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3837 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3838 header lines when this was not necessary.
3839
5591031b
PH
3840PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3841
ba18e66a
PH
3842PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3843 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3844 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3845 exists".
3846
9cec981f
PH
3847PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3848 -bV or -d is used.
3849
aa2b5c79
PH
3850PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3851 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3852 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3853 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3854
48a53b7f
PH
3855PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3856
1c59d63b
PH
3857PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3858
671012da
TK
3859TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3860
1509d3a8
PH
3861PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3862
3863PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3864 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3865 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3866 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3867 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3868 settings.
3869
3870PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3871
2fe1a124
PH
3872PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3873 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3874 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3875 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3876 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3877 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3878 which is clearly wrong.
3879
8800895a
PH
3880PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3881
ccfdb010
PH
3882PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3883 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3884 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3885 subsequently added.
3886
1130bfb0
PH
3887PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3888 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3889
ebcb507f
PH
3890PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3891
c35e155c
PH
3892PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3893 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3894
95d1f782
PH
3895PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3896 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3897
fd6de02e
PH
3898PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3899 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3900
58de37c5
PH
3901PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3902 recipients, not senders.
3903
261cf466
TF
3904TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3905 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3906
3ee512ff
PH
3907PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3908
e08c430f
PH
3909PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3910
bef5a11f
PH
3911PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3912 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3913 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3914 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3915
7546de58
TF
3916TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3917
e5d5a95f
TF
3918TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3919 clock is set back in time.
3920
2e88a017
TF
3921TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3922 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3923
a5f65aa4
TF
3924TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3925 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3926
e7726cbf
PH
3927PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3928 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3929 (see PH/47 above).
3930
a7fdad5b
TF
3931TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3932 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3933 header rewrites.
3934
6af56900
PH
3935PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3936 type ("H").
3937
0925ede6
PH
3938PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3939
66afa403
TF
3940TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3941 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3942 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3943
0154e85a
TF
3944TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3945 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3946 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3947 helo verification defer as a failure.
3948
16f12c76
PH
3949PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3950 actual error message.
3951
bbe902f0 3952
e5a9dba6
PH
3953Exim version 4.52
3954-----------------
3955
3956TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3957
22c3b60b
PH
3958PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3959 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3960 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3961 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3962
06a9b4b5
PH
3963TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3964
c1ac6996
PH
3965PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3966 can still be requested.
3967
9c7a242c
PH
3968PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3969 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3970 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3971 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3972
87ba3f5f
PH
3973TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3974 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3975 circumstances, but probably never did.
3976
3977PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3978 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3979 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3980 in the header line.
3981
29aba418
TF
3982TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3983
fe0dab11
TF
3984TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3985 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3986
11d337a4
TK
3987TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3988
3989TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3990
415c8f3b
PH
3991PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3992 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3993 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3994 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3995 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3996 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3997
958541e9
PH
3998PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3999 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4000 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4001 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4002 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4003 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4004
c206415f
TK
4005TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4006 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4007
2a4be8f9
PH
4008PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4009 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4010
1cba11c5
SC
4011SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4012 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4013
4c04137d 4014SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4015
4016SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4017
4018SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4019
4020SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4021
4022SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4023
4024SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4025
1005d00e
TK
4026TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4027
4028TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4029 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4030 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4031
4032TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4033 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4034 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4035 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4036
9b4768fa
PH
4037PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4038 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4039 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4040
4041PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4042 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4043 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4044 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4045
0d7eb84a
PH
4046PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4047 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4048 to be made).
4049
4050PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4051 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4052 should work with maildirs and everything.
4053
40727bee
TK
4054TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4055 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4056
554d2369
TF
4057TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4058 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4059
1f922db1
PH
4060PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4061 function for BDB 4.3.
4062
ef213c3b
PH
4063PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4064
8ac170f3
PH
4065PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4066 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4067 involved.
4068
b1c749bb
PH
4069PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4070 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4071 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4072 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4073 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4074 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4075
4aac9b49
PH
4076PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4077 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4078 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4079 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4080 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4081 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4082 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4083 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4084
294520c8
TK
4085TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4086 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4087 details.
4088
5bd022fe
PH
4089PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4090 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4091
90e9ce59
PH
4092PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4093 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4094 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4095 test. It is now used for both.
4096
5ea81592
PH
4097PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4098 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4099 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4100 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4101 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4102 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4103
c6c2dc1d
PH
4104PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4105 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4106 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4107 string_vformat().
4108
fffffe4c
PH
4109PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4110 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4111 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4112
9a26b6b2
PH
4113PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4114 experimental DomainKeys support:
4115
4116 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4117 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4118 the control was given.
4119
4120 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4121
4aee0225
PH
4122PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4123
32d668a5
PH
4124PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4125
8187c3f3
PH
4126PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4127 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4128 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4129 db.h files).
4130
ff790e47 4131PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4132 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4133 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4134 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4135 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4136 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4137 course.
ff790e47 4138
5417f6d1
PH
4139PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4140 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4141 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4142 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4143 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4144 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4145
59cf8544
PH
4146PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4147 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4148 do -d+all out of habit.
4149
e7ad8a65
PH
4150PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4151 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4152 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4153
ade42478
PH
4154PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4155 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4156 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4157 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4158 record types that Exim uses.
4159
182ad5cf
PH
4160PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4161 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4162 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4163 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4164 non-existent file that was broken.
4165
b0d9fc80
TK
4166TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4167 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4168
4169TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4170 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4171 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4172
4173TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4174
47c7a64a
PH
4175PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4176 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4177 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4178 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4179 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4180 same time.
4181
a388bce4
SC
4182SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4183 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4184 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4185 at a slight CPU cost.
4186
4187SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4188 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4189
4190SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4191 by Marc Sherman.
4192
0793e4ed
SC
4193SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4194
c58b88df
PH
4195PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4196 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4197
e7ad8a65 4198
7982096b
PH
4199Exim version 4.51
4200-----------------
4201
1a46a8c5
PH
4202TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4203 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4204
2f079f46 4205TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4206
4207TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4208
4209PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4210 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4211
4212PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4213 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4214 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4215 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4216 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4217 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4218 file.
4219
4220PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4221 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4222 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4223 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4224 these two options.
4225
4226PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4227 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4228 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4229 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4230 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4231 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4232 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4233 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4234
4235PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4236 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4237
4238PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4239 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4240 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4241 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4242 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4243 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4244
4245PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4246 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4247 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4248 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4249
4250PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4251 Finch).
4252
4253PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4254 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4255
49c2d5ea
PH
4256PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4257 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4258 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4259 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4260 message.
49c2d5ea 4261
bf759a8b
PH
4262PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4263
83364d30
PH
4264PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4265 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4266
7999bbd7
PH
4267PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4268 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4269 to what was transported.)
4270
7dbf77c9
PH
4271TF/01 Added $received_time.
4272
74e0617f
PH
4273PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4274 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4275 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4276 spamd_address settings.
4277
2f079f46
PH
4278PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4279 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4280 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4281 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4282 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4283
8c841523
PH
4284PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4285
7766a4f0
PH
4286PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4287 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4288 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4289 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4290 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4291
8b417f2c
PH
4292PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4293 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4294
901f42cb
PH
4295PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4296 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4297 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4298 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4299 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4300 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4301 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4302 for failure.
4303
f9b9210e
PH
4304PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4305 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4306 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4307 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4308 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4309 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4310 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4311 "input=".
4312
54cdb463
PH
4313PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4314
cf00dad6
PH
4315PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4316 driver and ACL definitions.
4317
acb1b346
PH
4318PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4319 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4320
c5ddb310
PH
4321PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4322 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4323 understands it better than I do:
4324
4325 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4326 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4327
4328 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4329 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4330 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4331 => three warnings about OTP not working
4332 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4333
4334 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4335 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4336 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4337 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4338 for each call.)
4339 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4340 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4341
4342 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4343 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4344 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4345
31619da6
PH
4346PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4347 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4348 specified.
4349
bebaf0fc
PH
4350PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4351 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4352 "Linux".
4353
475fe28a
PH
4354PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4355 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4356 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4357
4358 warn !verify = sender
4359 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4360
4361 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4362 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4363
7e8bec7a
PH
4364PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4365
4366 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4367 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4368
4369 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4370 nomenclature these days.)
4371
e4a89c47
PH
4372PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4373 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4374
5ca2a9a1
PH
4375PH/30 In these circumstances:
4376 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4377 . First host does not offer TLS;
4378 . First host accepts first address;
4379 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4380 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4381 . Second host accepts second address.
4382 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4383 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4384 address.
7e8bec7a 4385
c688b954
PH
4386PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4387 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4388 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4389 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4390 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4391
fed77020
PH
4392PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4393 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4394
7fe1560f
PH
4395PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4396 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4397
ebb6e6d5
PH
4398PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4399 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4400 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4401
9c4e8f60
PH
4402PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4403 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4404 overlooked.
4405
4406PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4407
d7174846
PH
4408PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4409 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4410 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4411 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4412 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4413 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4414 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4415
4416 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4417 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4418 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4419 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4420 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4421
4422 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4423 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4424 routed further.
4425
cfe75fc3
PH
4426PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4427 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4428 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4429 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4430 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4431 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4432
be22d70e
PH
4433PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4434
0612b098
PH
4435PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4436 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4437 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4438 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4439 printable escape sequences.
4440
2e0c1448
PH
4441PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4442 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4443 body only.
4444
447d236c
PH
4445PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4446 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4447 are as follows:
4448
4449 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4450 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4451 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4452 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4453 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4454
4455 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4456 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4457 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4458
d20976dc
PH
4459PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4460
f656d135
PH
4461PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4462 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4463 play with."
4464
2e2a30b4
PH
4465PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4466 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4467 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4468 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4469 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4470 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4471 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4472 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4473 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4474 the log output.
4475
9176e9f0
PH
4476PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4477 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4478 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4479 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4480 "make".
4481
7982096b 4482
bbe902f0
PH
4483A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4484----------------------------------------
4485
4486Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4487changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4488needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4489in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4490that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4491release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4492from 4.43.
4493
4494I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44954.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4496those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4497historical information.
4498
4499
f7b63901 4500Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4501-----------------
4502
5fe762f6
PH
4503 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4504
139059f6 4505 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4506 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4507
7086e875
PH
4508 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4509 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4510 place.
4511
35af9f61
PH
4512 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4513 filter fails to execute.
4514
b668c215
PH
4515 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4516 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4517 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4518 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4519 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4520
a494b1e1
PH
4521 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4522
4523 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4524 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4525 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4526 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4527
c5fcb476
PH
4528 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4529 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4530 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4531 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4532 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4533
69358f02
PH
4534 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4535
5be20824
PH
453610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4537
eb2c0248
PH
453811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4539 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4540 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4541 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4542
2a3eea10
PH
454312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4544 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4545 sender verification.
4546
454713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4548 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4549
23c7ff99
PH
455014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4551
4deaf07d
PH
455215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4553 connection timeout.
4554
926e1192
PH
455516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4556 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4557
650edc6f
PH
455817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4559 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4560
2c7db3f5
PH
456118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4562 information about exactly what failed.
4563
3d235903
PH
456419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4565
7c7ad977
PH
456620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4567 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4568 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4569
981756db
PH
457021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4571 It is now set to "smtps".
4572
d4eb88df
PH
457322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4574 ignore_target_hosts.
4575
457623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4577 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4578 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4579 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4580 "[x.x.x.x]".
4581
7d468ab8
PH
458224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4583 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4584 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4585
458625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4587 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4588 wake it up if nothing else does.
4589
62c0818f
PH
459026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4591 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4592 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4593 end up negative.
4594
26034054
PH
459527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4596 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4597
af66f652
PH
459828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4599
90af77f4
PH
460029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4601 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4602 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4603 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4604 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4605 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4606 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4607 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4608
d8ef3577
PH
460930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4610 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4611 than one IP address.
4612
5cb8cbc6
PH
461331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4614 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4615 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4616 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4617
14702f5b
PH
461832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4619 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4620 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4621 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4622 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4623 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4624
063b1e99
PH
462533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4626 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4627 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4628 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4629
652e1b65
PH
463034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4631 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4632 respected.
4633
6f0c9a4f
PH
463435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4635 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4636 $sender_host_address.
4637
33397d19
PH
463836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4639 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4640 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4641 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4642 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4643 very small.
4644
7bb56e1f
PH
464537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4646
4647 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4648 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4649
ea3bc19b
PH
4650 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4651 just the host names, not the priorities.
4652
4653 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4654 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4655 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4656
ea3bc19b 4657 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4658 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4659
0bcb2a0e
PH
466038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4661 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4662 domain.
4663
2ac0e484
PH
466439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4665
4e1fde53
PH
466640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4667 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4668
de365ded
PH
466941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4670 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4671 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4672
f05da2e8
PH
467342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4674
d6453af2
PH
467543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4676
f7b63901
PH
467744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4678
467945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4680 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4681 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4682 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4683 because the tests only now provoked it.
4684
a444213a
PH
468546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4686 (this can affect the format of dates).
4687
0ec020ea
PH
468847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4689 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4690 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4691 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4692
b1206957
PH
469348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4694
469549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4696 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4697 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4698 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4699
26dd5a95
PH
470050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4701 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4702 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4703
343b2385
PH
470451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4705 autoreply.
4706
1c5466b9
PH
470752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4708 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4709 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4710 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4711 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4712 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4713 is going on).
4714
55ee9ee3
PH
471553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4716 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4717 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4718 the line.
4719
d38f8232
PH
472054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4721 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4722 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4723
4724 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4725 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4726 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4727 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4728 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4729 so I produce this patch..."
4730
3295e65b
PH
4731 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4732 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4733 is not defined.
4734
7102e136
PH
473555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4736 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4737 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4738 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4739 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4740
3ca0ba97
PH
474156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4742
c2bcbe20
PH
474357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4744 long debug lines gets shown.
4745
18ce445d
PH
474658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4747 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4748
1f5b4c3d
PH
474959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4750
4751 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4752 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4753 of $primary_hostname.
4754
b975ba52
PH
475560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4756 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4757 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4758 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4759 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4760 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4761 by change 4.50/55 above.
4762
4763 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4764 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4765 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4766 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4767 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4768 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4769 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4770
477161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4772 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4773 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4774 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4775
17ffcae7
PH
477662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4777 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4778
d95f9fdb
PH
477963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4780 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4781 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4782 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4783 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4784
86b8287f
PH
478564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4786 This has been fixed.
4787
60dc5e56
PH
478865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4789 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4790 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4791 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4792 the caching.)
4793
533244af
PH
479466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4795
a5a28604
PH
479667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4797 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4798 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4799 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4800
7e634d24
PH
480168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4802 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4803
3e11c26b
PH
480469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4805 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4806 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4807
6729cf78
PH
480870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4809 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4810 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4811 message there.
4812
00f00ca5
PH
481371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4814 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4815 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4816
c9bdd01c
PH
481772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4818 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4819 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4820 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4821
d43194df
PH
482273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4823 during host lookups.
4824
fe5b5d0b
PH
482574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4826 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4827
4828 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4829
76a2d7ba
PH
483075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4831 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4832 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4833 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4834 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4835 background.
4836
483776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4838 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4839
04f7d5b9
PH
484077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4841 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4842 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4843
bc60667e
PH
484478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4845
bb6e88ff
PH
484679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4847 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4848 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4849 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4850 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4851 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4852 process earlier.
4853
1e70f85b
PH
485480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4855 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4856 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4857 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4858 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4859
486081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4861 tables).
4862
4e01f9d6
PH
486382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4864
1ee1cef2
PH
486583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4866 "vacation" handling.
4867
6e2b4ccc
PH
486884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4869 OS variants using glibc.
4870
8e669ac1
PH
487185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4872
495ae4b0 4873
bbe902f0
PH
4874----------------------------------------------------
4875See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4876----------------------------------------------------
4877
4878
4879Exim version 4.44
4880-----------------
4881
4882 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4883 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4884 transport
4885
4886 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4887 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4888 place.
4889
4890 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4891 filter fails to execute.
4892
4893 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4894 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4895 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4896 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4897 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4898
4899 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4900 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4901 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4902 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4903
4904 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4905 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4906 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4907 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4908 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4909
4910 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4911
4912 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4913 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4914 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4915 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4916
4917 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4918 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4919 sender verification.
4920
492110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4922 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4923
492411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4925 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4926
492712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4928 ignore_target_hosts.
4929
493013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4931 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4932 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4933 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4934 "[x.x.x.x]".
4935
493614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4937 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4938 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4939
494015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4941 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4942 wake it up if nothing else does.
4943
494416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4945 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4946 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4947 end up negative.
4948
494917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4950 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4951
ea3a6f44 495218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4953
495419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4955 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4956 empty pattern.
4957
495820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4959 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4960 one IP address.
4961
ea3a6f44
NM
496221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4963 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4964 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4965 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4966 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4967 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4968
ea3a6f44
NM
496922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4970 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4971 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4972
497323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4974 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4975 $sender_host_address.
4976
497724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4978
ea3a6f44
NM
497925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4980 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4981 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4982
498326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4984 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4985
ea3a6f44
NM
498627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4987 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4988
ea3a6f44
NM
498928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4990 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4991 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4992 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4993
499429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4995 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4996 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4997
ea3a6f44
NM
499830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4999 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5000 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5001 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5002
ea3a6f44
NM
500331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5004 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5005 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5006
ea3a6f44
NM
500731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5008 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5009
ea3a6f44
NM
501032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5011 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5012 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5013 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5014 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5015 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5016 is going on).
bbe902f0 5017
ea3a6f44
NM
501833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5019 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5020 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5021 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5022 CAN-2005-0021
5023
ea3a6f44
NM
502434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5025 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5026 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5027 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5028 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5029 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5030 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5031
5032 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5033 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5034 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5035 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5036 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5037 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5038 CAN-2005-0021
5039
ea3a6f44
NM
504035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5041 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5042 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5043 CAN-2005-0022
5044
ea3a6f44
NM
504536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5046 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5047 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5048 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5049 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5050
ea3a6f44
NM
505137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5052 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5053 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5054 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5055 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5056
ea3a6f44
NM
505738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5058 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5059 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5060 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5061 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5062
5063
495ae4b0
PH
5064Exim version 4.43
5065-----------------
5066
5067 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5068 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5069 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5070 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5071 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5072 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5073 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5074
5075 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5076 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5077 the delivery.
5078
5079 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5080
5081 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5082
5083 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5084 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5085 to local_scan().
5086
5087 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5088 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5089 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5090 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5091 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5092
5093 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5094 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5095
5096 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5097
5098 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5099
510010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5101 header_sender only.
5102
510311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5104 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5105
510612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5107 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5108 affecting debugging statements).
5109
511013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5111
511214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5113 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5114 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5115 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5116 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5117 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5118 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5119 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5120 after the received time, and all would be well.
5121
512215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5123 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5124 condition in an expansion string.
5125
512616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5127
512817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5129 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5130 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5131 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5132 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5133 job under whatever limits there are.
5134
513518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5136
513719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5138 space).
5139
514020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5141 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5142 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5143 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5144 return path is set.
5145
514621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5147 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5148 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5149 binary data in such strings.
5150
515122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5152
515323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5154 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5155 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5156 failure, which is pointless.
5157
515824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5159
516025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5161
516226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5163 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5164 Sender: header lines.
5165
516627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5167 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5168 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5169
517028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5171 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5172 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5173 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5174 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5175 happens.
5176
517729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5178 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5179 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5180 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5181 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5182
518330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5184 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5185 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5186 1024.
5187
518831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5189 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5190
519132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5192 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5193
519433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5195
519632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5197
519833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5199
520034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5201 syntax error.
5202
520335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5204
520536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5206
520737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5208 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5209 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5210 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5211
521238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5213 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5214
5215
5216Exim version 4.42
5217-----------------
5218
5219 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5220 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5221 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5222 it was not quoted.
5223 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5224 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5225 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5226 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5227 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5228 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5229
5230 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5231 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5232 verification failure".
5233
5234 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5235 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5236 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5237 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5238
5239 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5240 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5241 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5242 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5243 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5244 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5245 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5246 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5247 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5248 treated as a timeout.
5249
5250 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5251 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5252 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5253 not set for Exim filters).
5254
5255 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5256 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5257 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5258
5259 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5260
5261 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5262 try to make them clearer.
5263
5264 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5265 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5266
5267 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5268
5269 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5270
527110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5272 only the Cygwin environment.
5273
527411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5275 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5276 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5277 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5278 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5279
528012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5281 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5282 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5283 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5284 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5285 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5286 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5287
528813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5289 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5290
529114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5292
5293 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5294 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5295 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5296
5297 To: susanne@some.where
5298
5299 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5300 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5301 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5302 of addresses in From: header lines).
5303
5304 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5305 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5306 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5307
5308 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5309 treated as non-personal.
5310
5311 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5312 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5313
531415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5315
531616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5317
531817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5319 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5320 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5321
532218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5323 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5324
532519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5326 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5327 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5328 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5329 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5330 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5331
533220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5333 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5334 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5335 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5336 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5337 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5338 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5339 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5340
5341 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5342
534321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5344 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5345
534622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5347 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5348 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5349
535023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5351 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5352
535324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5354 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5355 rather than long int.
5356
535725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5358
535926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5360
5361
5362Exim version 4.41
5363-----------------
5364
5365 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5366 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5367 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5368 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5369 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5370 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5371
5372
5373Exim version 4.40
5374-----------------
5375
5376 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5377 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5378
5379 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5380 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5381 socklen_t is defined.
5382
5383 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5384 always exist.
5385
5386 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5387 configured.
5388
5389 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5390 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5391 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5392 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5393 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5394
5395 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5396 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5397 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5398 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5399
5400 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5401 of flapping under certain conditions.
5402
5403 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5404 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5405 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5406
5407 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5408
540910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5410
541111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5412 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5413 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5414 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5415
541612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5417 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5418 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5419 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5420 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5421 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5422 preserved with the message after it was received.
5423
542413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5425 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5426 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5427 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5428 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5429 test suite worked just fine.
5430
543114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5432 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5433 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5434
543515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5436 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5437 string.
5438
543916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5440 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5441 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5442 does not fully solve it.
5443
544417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5445 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5446 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5447 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5448 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5449
545018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5451 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5452 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5453
545419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5455 string, for example:
5456
5457 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5458
5459 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5460 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5461 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5462 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5463 the routers could not see them.
5464
546520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5466 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5467
546821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5469 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5470 output).
5471
547222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5473 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5474 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5475 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5476 that needed quoting.
5477
547823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5479 was not being matched caselessly.
5480
548124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5482 backslashes.
5483
548425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5485 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5486 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5487 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5488 when use_sender is false.
5489
549026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5491
549227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5493
549428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5495
549629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5497 the configuration file.
5498
549930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5500 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5501
550231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5503
550432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5505 bytes in the message body.
5506
550733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5508 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5509 delivery.
5510
551134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5512
551335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5514
551536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5516 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5517 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5518 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5519 another IP address.
5520
5521
5522Exim version 4.34
5523-----------------
5524
5525 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5526 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5527
5528 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5529 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5530 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5531 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5532 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5533
5534 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5535 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5536
5537 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5538 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5539 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5540
5541 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5542 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5543 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5544
5545 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5546 for routers.
5547
5548 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5549 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5550 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5551 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5552 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5553 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5554 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5555
5556
5557Exim version 4.33
5558-----------------
5559
5560 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5561 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5562 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5563 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5564 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5565 default (and expected) setting.
5566
5567 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5568 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5569 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5570 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5571
5572 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5573 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5574
5575 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5576 in domain lists.
5577
5578 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5579 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5580 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5581 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5582 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5583 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5584
5585 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5586 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5587 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5588
5589 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5590 part (NOT match_host).
5591
5592 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5593
5594 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5595 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5596 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5597 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5598 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5599 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5600 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5601 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5602 the same named file.
5603
560410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5605 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5606 when Exim is built.
5607
560811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5609 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5610 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5611 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5612 a host name.
5613
561412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5615 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5616 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5617
561813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5619
562014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5621
562215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5623
562416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5625 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5626
562717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5628 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5629 before starting the TLS session.
5630
563118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5632
563319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5634 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5635
563620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5637 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5638 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5639 colon in the middle).
5640
5641
5642Exim version 4.32
5643-----------------
5644
5645 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5646 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5647 multiple configurations are in use.
5648
5649 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5650 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5651 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5652 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5653 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5654 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5655
5656 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5657 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5658
5659 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5660 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5661 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5662
5663 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5664 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5665 occurs.
5666
5667 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5668 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5669
5670 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5671
5672 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5673 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5674
5675 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5676
5677 -prval:sval
5678
5679 is equivalent to
5680
5681 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5682
5683 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5684 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5685 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5686 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5687 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5688
568910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5690 Exim's behaviour:
5691
5692 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5693 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5694 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5695 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5696 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5697 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5698
5699 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5700 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5701 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5702 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5703 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5704 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5705 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5706 string.
5707
5708 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5709 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5710 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5711 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5712 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5713
571411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5715
571612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5717 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5718 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5719
572013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5721
572214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5723 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5724 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5725 information.
5726
572715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5728 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5729
573016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5731 Three changes have been made:
5732
5733 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5734 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5735 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5736 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5737 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5738
5739 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5740 been restored.
5741
5742 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5743 the modified behaviour.
5744
5745
5746Exim version 4.31
5747-----------------
5748
5749 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5750 Larry Rosenman.
5751
5752 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5753 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5754
5755 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5756 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5757 try to track down a specific problem.
5758
5759 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5760 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5761 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5762
5763 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5764 warning.
5765
5766 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5767 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5768 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5769 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5770 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5771 some earlier ones do not.
5772
5773 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5774
5775 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5776 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5777 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5778 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5779 address literals are enabled, of course).
5780
5781 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5782
578310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5784 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5785 by a command such as
5786
5787 exim -f "" ...
5788
5789 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5790
579111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5792
579312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5794 remained set. It is now erased.
5795
579613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5797 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5798
579914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5800 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5801 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5802 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5803 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5804 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5805 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5806 appropriate error code.
5807
580815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5809 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5810 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5811 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5812 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5813 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5814
581516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5816 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5817 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5818
581917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5820 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5821 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5822 terminate the header.
5823
582418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5825 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5826 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5827
582819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5829 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5830 (4.30/29). In particular:
5831
5832 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5833 imposed.
5834
5835 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5836 to write a maildirsize file.
5837
5838 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5839 the transport, the new value overrides.
5840
5841 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5842 count.
5843
584420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5845 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5846 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5847 space or a tab.
5848
584921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5850 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5851 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5852 the fallback hosts.
5853
585422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5855 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5856 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5857
585823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5859 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5860 using a union.
5861
586224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5863 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5864 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5865
586625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5867
586826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5869
587027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5871
587228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5873 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5874 become corrupted.
5875
587629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5877 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5878 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5879 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5880 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5881 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5882 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5883 too great.
5884
588530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5886 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5887 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5888 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5889 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5890 incorrectly.
5891
589231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5893 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5894 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5895 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5896 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5897 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5898 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5899 cached value only when the same options are set.
5900
590132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5902
590333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5904 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5905 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5906 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5907 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5908
590934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5910 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5911 it is clearly obsolete.
5912
591335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5914 transport.
5915
591636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5917 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5918 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5919 times.
5920
592137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5922 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5923 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5924 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5925 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5926
592738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5928 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5929 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5930 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5931
593239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5933
5934 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5935
5936 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5937 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5938 2^31.
5939
594040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5941 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5942 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5943 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5944 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5945 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5946 $localpart_data.
5947
594841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5949 with the -f command-line option.
5950
595142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5952 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5953 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5954 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5955 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5956 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5957
595843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5959 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5960 line.
5961
596244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5963 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5964 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5965 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5966 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5967 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5968 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5969 buffer is too small.
5970
597145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5972 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5973
597446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5975 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5976 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5977 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5978 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5979 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5980 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5981 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5982 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5983
598447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5985 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5986 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5987
598848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5989 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5990 ACL").
5991
599249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5993 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5994 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5995 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5996 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5997
599850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5999 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6000 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6001 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6002 is set.
6003
600451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6005
600652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6007
600853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6009 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6010
601154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6012 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6013 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6014
601555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6016 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6017 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6018 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6019 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6020
602156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6022 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6023 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6024 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6025 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6026 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6027 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6028
602957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6030 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6031 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6032 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6033 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6034 the test of how many are available.
6035
603658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6037 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6038 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6039 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6040 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6041 new message is started.
6042
604359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6044 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6045
604660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6047 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6048
604961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6050 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6051 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6052 is no long logged.
6053
605462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6055 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6056 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6057 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6058 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6059 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6060 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6061
606263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6063 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6064 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6065 interpreted as octal.
6066
606764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6068 setting.
6069
607065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6071 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6072 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6073 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6074 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6075 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6076
607766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6078 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6079 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6080 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6081
6082 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6083 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6084 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6085 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6086
6087 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6088 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6089 is a bug fix.
6090
6091 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6092 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6093
609467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6095
609668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6097 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6098 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6099 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6100
610169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6102 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6103 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6104 supplied", which is not helpful.
6105
610670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6107 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6108 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6109
611071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6111 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6112 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6113 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6114 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6115 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6116 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6117 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6118
611972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6120 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6121 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6122 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6123 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6124
612573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6126 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6127 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6128 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6129 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6130 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6131
613274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6133 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6134 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6135
613675. Added write_rejectlog option.
6137
613876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6139 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6140 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6141 variables.
6142
614377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6144
614578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6146 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6147 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6148 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6149 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6150 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6151 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6152 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6153
615479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6155 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6156 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6157 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6158 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6159
616080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6161 Haardt.
6162
616381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6164 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6165 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6166 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6167 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6168 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6169 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6170 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6171 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6172
6173
6174Exim version 4.30
6175-----------------
6176
6177 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6178 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6179 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6180
6181 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6182 fixed.
6183
6184 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6185 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6186 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6187
6188 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6189 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6190 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6191 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6192 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6193 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6194
6195 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6196 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6197 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6198 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6199 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6200 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6201 the Exim test suite.
6202
6203 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6204 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6205 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6206 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6207
6208 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6209 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6210 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6211 specify it in this variable.
6212
6213 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6214 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6215 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6216 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6217
6218 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6219 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6220 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6221 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6222
6223 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6224 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6225 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6226 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6227 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6228
6229 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6230
623110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6232 they are logged.
6233
623411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6235 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6236 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6237 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6238 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6239
624012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6241 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6242
624313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6244 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6245 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6246 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6247 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6248
624914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6250 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6251
625215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6253 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6254 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6255
625616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6257 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6258
625917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6260 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6261
626218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6263 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6264 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6265
626619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6267 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6268
626920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6270 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6271 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6272 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6273
627421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6275
627622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6277 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6278 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6279 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6280
628123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6282
628324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6284 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6285
628625. Added .include_if_exists.
6287
628826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6289 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6290 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6291 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6292 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6293 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6294
629527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6296
629728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6298 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6299 this.
6300
630129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6302
630330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6304 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6305
6306 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6307 550 Sender verify failed
6308
6309 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6310 the final line of the response.
6311
631231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6313 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6314 all other user lookups.
6315
631632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6317 delivery time.
6318
631933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6320 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6321 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6322 result into an int without checking.
6323
632434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6325 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6326 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6327
632835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6329 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6330 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6331 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6332
633336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6334 correctly.
6335
633637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6337 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6338
633938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6340 to the empty sender.
6341
634239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6343 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6344 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6345 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6346 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6347 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6348 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6349 panic log.
6350
635140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6352 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6353 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6354 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6355 used.
6356
635741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6358 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6359
636042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6361 timestamps.
6362
636343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6364 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6365
636644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6367
636845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6369 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6370 logs.
6371
637246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6373 as soon as it is encountered.
6374
637547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6376
637748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6378 rewritten to "<>".
6379
638049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6381 recognizes a tab character.
6382
638350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6384 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6385 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6386 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6387
638851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6389
639052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6391 crash.
6392
639353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6394
639554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6396
639755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6398 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6399 2822.
6400
640156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6402 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6403 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6404 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6405 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6406
640757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6408 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6409
641058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6411 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6412 list (.included file names were always shown).
6413
641459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6415 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6416 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6417 root at that time.
6418
641960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6420 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6421
642261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6423
642462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6425
642663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6427
642864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6429 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6430 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6431 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6432 failures to open the logs.
6433
643465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6435 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6436 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6437 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6438 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6439 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6440 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6441
6442
6443Exim version 4.24
6444-----------------
6445
6446 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6447 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6448 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6449 change 4.23/1.
6450
6451 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6452 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6453 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6454
6455 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6456 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6457 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6458
6459 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6460 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6461 causing some misleading effects.
6462
6463 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6464 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6465 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6466
6467 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6468 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6469 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6470 queue-runner function directly.
6471
6472
6473Exim version 4.23
6474-----------------
6475
6476 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6477 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6478
6479 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6480 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6481 was always written to the default place.
6482
6483 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6484 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6485 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6486
6487 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6488
6489 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6490
6491 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6492 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6493 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6494
6495 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6496 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6497 must start.
6498
6499 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6500 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6501 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6502
6503 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6504 command line option is disabled.
6505
6506 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6507 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6508
6509 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6510
6511 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6512
6513 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6514 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6515
651610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6517
651811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6519 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6520 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6521 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6522 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6523 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6524
652512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6526 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6527 timeout.
6528
652913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6530 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6531
653214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6533 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6534
653515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6536 received was valid base64.
6537
653816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6539 name of the variable that was being set.
6540
654117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6542
654318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6544 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6545 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6546 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6547 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6548 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6549
655019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6551
655220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6553 nor realm was specified.
6554
655521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6556 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6557 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6558 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6559
656022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6561 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6562 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6563
656423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6565 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6566 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6567
656824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6569 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6570 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6571 some systems use these upper case variants.
6572
657325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6574 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6575 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6576 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6577
657826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6579
658027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6581 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6582
658328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6584 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6585 expansion variable.
6586
658729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6588
658930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6590 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6591 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6592 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6593
659431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6595 using it.
6596
659732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6598 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6599 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6600
660133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6602 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6603
660434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6605 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6606 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6607 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6608
660935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6610 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6611 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6612
661336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6614
661537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6616 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6617 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6618 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6619 aborted.
6620
662138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6622 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6623 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6624
662539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6626
662740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6628 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6629
663041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6631 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6632
663342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6634 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6635 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6636 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6637 when emails are that large.
6638
6639
6640
6641Exim version 4.22
6642-----------------
6643
6644 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6645 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6646
6647 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6648 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6649 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6650
6651 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6652 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6653 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6654
6655 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6656 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6657 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6658 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6659 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6660
6661 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6662 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6663 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6664 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6665 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6666 ever.
6667
6668 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6669 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6670 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6671 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6672 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6673 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6674 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6675 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6676 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6677 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6678 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6679 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6680 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6681 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6682
6683 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6684 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6685 parameterised it.
6686
6687 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6688 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6689 error should be diagnosed.
6690
6691 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6692 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6693 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6694 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6695 appeared instead of "NULL".
6696
669710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6698 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6699 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6700 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6701 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6702 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6703 proceeds).
6704
6705 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6706 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6707 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6708
6709
6710Exim version 4.21
6711-----------------
6712
6713 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6714 or receiver verification errors.
6715
6716 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6717 name.
6718
6719 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6720 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6721 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6722 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6723
6724 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6725 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6726 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6727 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6728 shouldn't happen again.
6729
6730 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6731 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6732 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6733
6734 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6735 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6736
6737 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6738
6739 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6740 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6741
6742 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6743 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6744 RFC.
6745
674610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6747 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6748 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6749
675011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6751 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6752 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6753 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6754
675512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6756 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6757 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6758 to define what should happen).
6759
676013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6761 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6762 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6763
676414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6765
676615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6767
676816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6769 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6770
4c04137d 677117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6772 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6773 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6774 structure in all cases.
6775
6776 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6777 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6778 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6779 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6780
678118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6782 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6783 domain name.
6784
678519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6786 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6787
678820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6789 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6790
679121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6792 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6793 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6794
679522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6796 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6797 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6798
679923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6800 the book and for uniformity.
6801
680224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6803
680425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6805 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6806 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6807 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6808 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6809 non-existent command as the problem.
6810
681126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6812 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6813 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6814
681527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6816
681728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6818 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6819 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6820
682129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6822 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6823 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6824 timestamps using strftime().
6825
682630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6827 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6828
682932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6830 transport-time rewrites.
6831
683233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6833 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6834 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6835 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6836
683734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6838 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6839
684035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6841 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6842 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6843 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6844 comma and a space.
6845
684636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6847 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6848 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6849 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6850 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6851 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6852 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6853
685437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6855 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6856 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6857 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6858 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6859
686038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6861 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6862 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6863 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6864 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6865 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6866 remaining text gets split now.
6867
686839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6869 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6870 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6871 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6872
687340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6874 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6875 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6876 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6877 $return_path.
6878
687941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6880 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6881 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6882 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6883 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6884 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6885 passed through if needed.
6886
688742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6888 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6889 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6890 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6891 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6892 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6893
689443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6895 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6896 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6897 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6898 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6899
690044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6901 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6902 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6903 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6904 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6905
690645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6907 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6908 noticed.
6909
691046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6911 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6912 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6913 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6914 mayhem of various kinds.
6915
691647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6917 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6918 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6919 the right test for positive values.
6920
692148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6922 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6923 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6924 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6925 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6926 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6927 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6928 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6929 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6930 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6931 envelope.
6932
693349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6934 module.
6935
693650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6937 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6938 forbidding it.
6939
694051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6941 the existing equality matching.
6942
694352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6944 dealing with inode numbers.
6945
694653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6947 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6948 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6949
695054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6951 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6952 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6953 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6954 local_scan().
6955
695655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6957 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6958 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6959 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6960 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6961 relay addresses has also been removed.
6962
696356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6964
696557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6966 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6967 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6968
696958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6970 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6971 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6972 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6973 processing applies to CR:
6974
6975 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6976 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6977
6978 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6979 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6980 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6981 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6982
698359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6984 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6985 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6986
698760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6988 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6989 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6990 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6991 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6992 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6993 arisen.
6994
699561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6996 program routers.
6997
699862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6999 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7000 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7001 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7002 adds:
7003
7004 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7005
7006 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7007
7008 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7009
701063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7011 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7012 not considered personal.
7013
701464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7015
701665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7017
701866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7019
702067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7021 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7022 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7023 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7024 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7025 header lines, and spool format errors.
7026
702768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7028 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7029 for more flexibility.
7030
703169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7032 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7033 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7034
703570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7036 Sabourenkov.
7037
703871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7039 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7040 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7041 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7042 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7043 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7044 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7045 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7046 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7047
704872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7049 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7050 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7051 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7052 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7053 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7054 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7055
705673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7057 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7058 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7059
706074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7061 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7062 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7063 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7064 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7065 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7066 instead of killing the process with assert().
7067
706875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7069 than Unicode encoding.
7070
707176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7072 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7073 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7074 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7075
707677. Added process_log_path.
7077
707878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7079 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7080
708179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7082 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7083
708480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7085 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7086 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7087
708881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7089 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7090 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7091 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7092 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7093 were applied:
7094
7095 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7096 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7097 as invalid.
7098
709982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7100 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7101 they will be used during message reception.
7102
7103
7104Exim version 4.20
7105-----------------
7106
7107The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7108
7109****