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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
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d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
48
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49TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
51
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52TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
53
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54JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
55
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56JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
57
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58PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
59
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60NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
61 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 62
585121e2 63JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 64
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65PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
66
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67PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
68 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
69
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70JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
71 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
72 "acl = name arg..."
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74JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
75
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76JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
77
ea722490 78JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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79 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
80
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81JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
82 Bugzilla 884.
83
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84JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
85 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
86
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87JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
88 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
89
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90PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
91 CVE-2012-5671
92
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93JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
94 authenticators.
95
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96JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
97 for control.
98
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99PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
100
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101PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
102 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
103 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
104 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
105
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106TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
107
108 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
109 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
110 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
111 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
112 the retry rules.
113
114 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
115 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
116 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
117
118 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
119 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
120 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
121 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
122
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123 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
124 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
125 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
126 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
127 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
128 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
129 delivery, as in LMTP.
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130
131 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
132 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
133
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134TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
135
136 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
137
138 Resent-From: f
139
140 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
141 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
142 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
143 username as equal to the username.
144
145 This change corrects that bug.
146
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147GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
148 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
149 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
150
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151TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
152
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153PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
154 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
155 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
156 NULL dereference and crash.
157
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158JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
159
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160PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
161 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
162 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
163
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164SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
165
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166JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
167 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
168 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
169 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
170 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
171 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
172 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
173 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
174 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
175 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
176 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
177
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178PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
179 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
180
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181PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
182 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
183 Bugzilla 880.
184
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185PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
186 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
187 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
188 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
189 an empty string is now equivalent.
190
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191PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
192 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
193 not performing validation itself.
194
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195PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
196 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
197
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198JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
199 Bugzilla 321, 823.
200
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201PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
202 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
203 other false fix of the same issue.
204 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
205 Bugzilla 1363.
206
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207PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
208 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
209
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210PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
211 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
212 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
213
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214PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
215 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
216 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
217
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219Exim version 4.80.1
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221
222PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
223 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 224 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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b1770b6e 227Exim version 4.80
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229
230PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
231 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
232 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
233
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234NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
235
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236NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
237 improved.
238
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239NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
240
c1e794ba 241PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 242
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243PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
244
245PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
246 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
247
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248PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
249 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
250
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251PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
252 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
253
f1e05cc7 254PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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255 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
256 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 257
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258PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
259
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260PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
261 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
262
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263PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
264
c45dd180 265PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 266
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267PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
268 non-compliant senders.
269 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
270
eae0036b 271NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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272 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
273 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
274
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275PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
276 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
277 in spool file corruption.
278
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279PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
280 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
281 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
282 "Got SSL error 2".
283
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284TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
285 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
286 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
287
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288JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
289 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
290
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291JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
292
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293PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
294 diagnostics.
295 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
296
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297PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
298 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
299 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
300
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301PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
302 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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303 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
304 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 305
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306PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
307 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
308
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309PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
310 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
311 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
312 resolver implementation change.
313
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314PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
315 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
316
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317PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
318
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319PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
320
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321PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
322 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
323
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324PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
325 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
326
9e45c72b 327JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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328 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
329
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330PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
331 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
332 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
333 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 334 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 335
53947857 336PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 337
eae0036b 338PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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339 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
340 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 341
9e45c72b 342JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 343
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344PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
345 read-only, out of scope).
346 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
347
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348PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
349 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
350 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
351 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
352
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353PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
354
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355PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
356 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
357 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
358 real issues in debug logging.
359
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360PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
361 assignment on my part. Fixed.
362
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363PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
364 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
365 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
366
367PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
368 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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369 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
370 problems.
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372PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
373 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
374
57eb9e91 375PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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376 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
377 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
378 needs to override this, it can.
379
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380PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
381 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
382 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
383
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384PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
385 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
386 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
387 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
388
3ecab157 389PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 390
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394
395PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
396 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
397
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398TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
399
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400TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
401 whitespace trailer
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403TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
404 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
405
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406TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
407 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
408 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
409
410 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
411 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
412 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
413 not safe for signals.
414
415 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
416 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
417 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
418 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
419 exiwhat.
420
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421TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
422
423 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
424 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
425 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
426 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
427 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
428
429 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
430 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
431 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
432 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
433 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
434 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
435
436 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
437 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
438 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
439 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
440
441 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
442 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
443 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
444 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
445
446 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
447 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
448 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
449 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
450 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
451 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
452 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
453 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
454 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
455
456 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
457 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
458 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
459 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
460
461 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
462 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
463 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
464 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
465 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
466 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
467 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
468 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
469 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
470 details in the main documentation.
471
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472TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
473
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474TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
475
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476TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
477 repository when doing development or release builds.
478
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479PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
480 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 481
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482PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
483 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
484 Bugzilla 97.
485
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486PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
487
9e949f00 488PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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489 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
490
491PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
492 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 493
555ae6af 494PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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495 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
496
497PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
498 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 499
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500PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
501 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
502
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503PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
504 Bugzilla 1156.
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505 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
506 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 507
d6cc7c78 508PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
509 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
510 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
511
0d0e4455
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512PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
513
3399bb60 514PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
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515
516PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
517 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
518
0ca0cf52 519
10906672
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520Exim version 4.76
521-----------------
522
523PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
524
754a0503
PP
525PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
526 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
527
c0c7b2da
PP
528PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
529
e97d1f08
PP
530PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
531
084c1d8c
PP
532PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
533 Bugzilla 1098.
534
4e7ee012
PP
535PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
536 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 537
c8d52a00
PP
538TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
539 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
540
54e7ce4a
PP
541PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
542 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
543
5ee6f336
PP
544PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
545 Bugzilla 1104.
546
c8d52a00 547TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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PP
548 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
549
550TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
551 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
552 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
553 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
554
555PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
556 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 557
10906672 558
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559Exim version 4.75
560-----------------
561
4c9ef03a 562NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
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563 Bugzilla 1073
564
7f3d9eff
TF
565TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
566 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
567 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
568
159f52d2
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569TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
570 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
571
0cc9542a
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572PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
573 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
574 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
575
f7274286
PP
576PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
577 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
578
7b797365
PP
579PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
580 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
581
caacae52
NM
582NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
583 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
584
09dcaba9
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585NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
586 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
587
bc19a55b
PP
588PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
589 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 590
bd4c9759
NM
591NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
592 Fixes bug 943.
593
b72aab72
PP
594PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
595 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
596
2fe76745
PP
597PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
598 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
599
76aa570c
PP
600PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
601 SQL string expansion failure details.
602 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
603
f1e5fef5
PP
604PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
605 Patch from Simon Arlott.
606
4d805ee9
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607PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
608 extern declarations in function scope.
609 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
610
cd59ab18
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611PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
612 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
613 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
614 a kernel bug).
615
332f5cf3
PP
616PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
617 Patch from Mark Zealey.
618
29cfeb94
PP
619PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
620 Patch from Mark Zealey.
621
660242ad
PP
622PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
623 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
624
bc4bc4c5
PP
625PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
626 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
627
2e64baa9
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628NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
629 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
630 Dennis Davis.
631
bddd7526
PP
632PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
633
6bac1a9a
PP
634PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
635
552193f0
NM
636NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
637 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 638
1b587e48
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639TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
640 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
641
aa097c4c 642
8c07b69f
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643Exim version 4.74
644-----------------
645
646TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
647 consequences so log it to the panic log.
648
c0ea85ab
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649TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
650 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
651
0761d44e
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652TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
653
0a349494
PP
654DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
655 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
656 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
657
658PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
659 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
660 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
661
fea24b2e
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662PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
663 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
664 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
665 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
666
6545de78
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667PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
668 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
669 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
670 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
671
1670ef10
PP
672PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
673 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
674 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
675 arbitrary files.
676
c0886197
PP
677PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
678 (Wolfgang Breyha)
679
b7487bce
PP
680PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
681 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
682 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
683 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
684 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
685
8c07b69f 686
97fd1e48 687Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 688-----------------
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PP
689
690PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
691 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
692 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
693
6901c596
PP
694PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
695 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
696
a8c8d6b5
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697JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
698
77bb000f
PP
699PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
700
a29e5231
PP
701PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
702
ec5a0394 703PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 704
55c75993
PP
705PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
706
453a6645 707PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
708 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
709 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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710 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
711
8544e77a
PP
712PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
713 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
714 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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715 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
716 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 717
83e029d5
PP
718PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
719
ed7f7860
PP
720PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
721
7d9f747b
PP
722PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
723
4b2241d2
PP
724PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
725
10385c15
PP
726PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
727
dbc4b90d
PP
728PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
729
532be449
PP
730PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
731
6a8de854 732PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
733 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
734 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 735
5dc43717
JJ
736JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
737
738JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
739 "exim" to be used
55c75993 740
3346ab01
PP
741PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
742 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
743
491fab4c
PP
744PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
745 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
746 Notification from John Horne.
747
13eb9497
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748PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
749 compatible.
750
751PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
752 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
753 it normally works.
754
7f36d675
DW
755DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
756 access.
757
c1d94452
DW
758DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
759 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
760 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
761
e2f5dc15
DW
762DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
763 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
764 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
765 configuration file.
766
cd25e41d
DW
767DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
768 option (effectively making it always true).
769
261dc43e
DW
770DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
771 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
772
fa32850b
DW
773DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
774 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
775
79d4bc3d
PP
776PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
777 run-time user, instead of root.
778
43236f35 779PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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780 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
781
fb08281f
DW
782DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
783 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
784 arguments.
3346ab01 785
74935b98
DW
786DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
787 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
788 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
789
90b6341f
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790DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
791
57730b52
ML
792NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
793
66581d1e 794
465e92cf
JJ
795Exim version 4.72
796-----------------
797
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798JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
799 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
800 typos
465e92cf 801
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802JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
803 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
804 (Finput)
edae0343 805
9bd3e22c
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806NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
807 Patch from Alain Williams
808
bb576ff7
NM
809NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
810
5a1a5845
NM
811NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
812 Patch from Andreas Metzler
813
981a9fad
NM
814NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
815 Patch from Kirill Miazine
816
7fc497ee
NM
817NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
818
1a41defa
JJ
819JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
820
a466095c 821NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 822 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 823
94a6bd0b
NM
824TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
825
826TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
827
828MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
829 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
830 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
831
c1b141a8
NM
832NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
833 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 834
b26eacf1 835NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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836 Patch by Simon Arlott
837
179c5980 838PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 839 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 840
9bd3e22c 841
7c6d71af
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842Exim version 4.71
843-----------------
844
7d9f747b 845TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 846
f013fb92
NM
847NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
848
0eb8eedd
NM
849NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
850
663ee6d9
NM
851NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
852
177ebd9b
NM
853NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
854
7c6d71af 855
210f147e
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856Exim version 4.70
857-----------------
858
cdd3bb85 859TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 860 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
861
862TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
863 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 864 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
865
866TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
867 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 868 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
869
870TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
871 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
872
210f147e
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873NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
874 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
875 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
876 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
877
deafd5b3
NM
878NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
879 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 880 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 881
089793a4
TF
882TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
883
5f16ca82
TF
884TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
885
dae9d94e 886NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 887 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 888
7d9f747b 889NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 890
06864c44
TF
891TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
892 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
893 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
894 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
895
65a7d8c3 896NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 897 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 898
23510047 899TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 900
7d9f747b 901NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 902
7d8eec3a 903NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 904 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 905
89dec7b6
TF
906TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
907 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 908
a99de90c
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909TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
910 that they are available at delivery time.
911
e2803e40
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912TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
913
7199e1ee
TF
914TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
915 incoming_port log selectors.
916
e276e04b
TF
917TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
918 setting expands to an empty string.
919
ce552449 920NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 921 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 922
e765a0f1 923NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 924 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 925
4f054c63 926NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 927 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 928
7d9f747b
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929NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
930 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 931
7d9f747b
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932NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
933 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 934
b52bc06e 935NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 936 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 937
447de4b0
NM
938NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
939
4c69d561 940NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 941 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 942
d5c39246 943NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 944 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 945
0b23848a
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946TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
947
8f3414a1 948NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 949 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 950
fb6f955d
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951NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
952
953NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 954
7d9f747b
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955NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
956 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 957
7d9f747b
PP
958NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
959 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 960
7d9f747b
PP
961NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
962 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 963
7d9f747b
PP
964NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
965 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 966
7d9f747b
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967NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
968 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 969
7d9f747b
PP
970NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
971 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 972
7d9f747b
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973NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
974 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 975
7d9f747b 976NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 977 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 978
7d9f747b 979NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 980
7d9f747b
PP
981NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
982 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 983
7d9f747b 984NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 985
7d9f747b 986NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 987
7d9f747b 988NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 989
7d9f747b 990NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 991
17792b53 992NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 993 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 994
7d9f747b
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995NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
996 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 997
91576cec 998NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 999 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1000
7d9f747b
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1001NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1002 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1003
7d9f747b 1004NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1005
7d9f747b 1006NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1007
7d9f747b 1008NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1009
7d9f747b 1010NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1011
deafd5b3 1012
47db1125
NM
1013Exim version 4.69
1014-----------------
1015
4b3504d0
TK
1016TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1017 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1018 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1019
1020 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1021 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1022 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1023 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1024 build errors in sieve.c.
1025
81ea09ca
NM
1026NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1027 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1028 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1029
f13cddcb
SC
1030SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1031
7d9f747b 1032NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1033
7d9f747b 1034NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1035
7d9f747b 1036NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1037
1038
eb4c0de6
PH
1039Exim version 4.68
1040-----------------
1041
1042PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1043
6a3bceb1
PH
1044PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1045 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1046 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1047 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1048 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1049 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1050 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1051 for iplsearch lookups.
1052
1053 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1054 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1055 previously such lookups could never work.
1056
1057 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1058 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1059 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1060
2e30fa9d
TK
1061TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1062 version.
1063
0806a9c5
MH
1064MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1065 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1066 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1067 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1068 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1069 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1070
ae276964
TK
1071TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1072 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1073
0f2cbd1b
MH
1074MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1075 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1076 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1077 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1078 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1079 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1080
2b85bce7
PH
1081PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1082 local_scan API.
1083
93655c46
PH
1084PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1085
6c512171
PH
1086PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1087 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1088 encrypted.
1089
1090PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1091 by clients under certain conditions.
1092
aa6dc513
PH
1093PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1094 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1095
a96603a0
PH
1096PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1097
8f240103
PH
1098PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1099 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1100
1101PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1102
d677b2f2
PH
1103PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1104
d52120f2
PH
1105PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1106
64f2600a
PH
1107PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1108 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1109
8669f003
PH
1110PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1111
a4dc33a8
PH
1112PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1113 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1114
d6a60c0f
PH
1115PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1116
8f128379
PH
1117PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1118
8932dffe
PH
1119PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1120 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1121 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1122 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1123
ddea74fa 1124PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1125 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1126 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1127
ddea74fa 1128PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1129 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1130
ddea74fa
PH
1131PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1132
ce9f225c
PH
1133PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1134
19897d52
PH
1135PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1136
bc64a74d
PH
1137PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1138 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1139 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1140
eb4c0de6 1141
b4ed4da0
PH
1142Exim version 4.67
1143-----------------
1144
22ad45c9
MH
1145MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1146 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1147 Jan Srzednicki.
1148
b4ed4da0
PH
1149PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1150 issue a MAIL command.
1151
431b7361
PH
1152PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1153
1154 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1155
1156 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1157 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1158 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1159 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1160 item. This has been fixed.
1161
1162PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1163 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1164
83da1223
PH
1165PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1166 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1167
54fc8428
PH
1168PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1169 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1170 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1171
34c5e8dd
SC
1172SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1173
bbe15da8
PH
1174PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1175 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1176 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1177 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1178 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1179
0e8a9471
MH
1180MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1181 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1182 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1183
f0872424
PH
1184PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1185 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1186 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1187 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1188
b01dd148
PH
1189PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1190
6bf342e1
PH
1191PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1192
273f34d0
PH
1193PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1194 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1195 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1196 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1197 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1198
cf8b11a5
PH
1199PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1200
41c7c167
PH
1201PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1202 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1203 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1204 values).
1205
9c57cbc0
PH
1206PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1207
f3f065bb
PH
1208PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1209
047bdd8c
PH
1210PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1211
0ce9abe6
PH
1212PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1213
0e22dfd1
PH
1214PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1215
4c590bd1
PH
1216PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1217 no_callout_flush is set.
1218
09945f1e
PH
1219PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1220 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1221 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1222 fixed.
1223
c51b8e75
PH
1224PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1225
e28326d8
PH
1226PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1227 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1228 other ACL rejections are.
1229
75b1493f
PH
1230PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1231 with slight modification.
1232
7c5214ec
PH
1233PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1234 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1235
4311097e
PH
1236PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1237 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1238 connection.
1239
29f89cad
PH
1240PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1241 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1242
5e687460
SC
1243SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1244
c3611384
PH
1245PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1246 expansion side effects.
1247
5a11a7b4
PH
1248PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1249 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1250 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1251 be the same.
1252
0e20aff9
MH
1253MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1254 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1255 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1256
ca86f471
PH
1257PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1258 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1259 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1260 were accidentally chopped off.
1261
a14e5636
PH
1262PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1263 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1264 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1265 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1266 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1267 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1268 pipelining has not been advertised.
1269
ec95d1a6
PH
1270PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1271
42855d71
PH
1272PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1273 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1274 This has been fixed.
1275
57c2c631
PH
1276PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1277 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1278 reported on Solaris.
1279
58c01c94
PH
1280PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1281 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1282 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1283 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1284 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1285 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1286 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1287
dee5a20a
PH
1288PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1289 cpus.
1290
d2ee6114
PH
1291PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1292
b2d5182b
PH
1293PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1294
79749a79
PH
1295PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1296 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1297 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1298 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1299 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1300 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1301
c456d9bb
PH
1302PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1303 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1304 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1305 host_all_ignored option.
1306
cd9868ec
PH
1307PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1308 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1309 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1310 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1311 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1312 is what is supposed to happen).
1313
ebeaf996
PH
1314PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1315 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1316 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1317 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1318 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1319 uses the Exim user.
1320
2679d413
PH
1321PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1322 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1323 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1324 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1325 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1326 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1327 users.
1328
84024b72
PH
1329PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1330
8005d38e
SC
1331SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1332 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1333 (Jez Hancock).
1334 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1335 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1336
3298c6c6
SC
1337SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1338
a43a27c5
PH
1339PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1340
58eb016e 1341PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1342 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1343 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1344 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1345 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1346 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1347 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1348 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1349 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1350 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1351 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1352
b43a74ea
PH
1353PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1354 advertised in response to EHLO.
1355
b4ed4da0 1356
5dd1517f
PH
1357Exim version 4.66
1358-----------------
1359
1360PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1361 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1362
1363 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1364 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1365
1366 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1367 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1368 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1369
1370 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1371 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1372 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1373 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1374 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1375
1376
93cfa765
TK
1377Exim version 4.65
1378-----------------
1379
1380TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1381 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1382 versions. (#438)
1383
d6066548
MH
1384MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1385 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1386 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1387
4362ff0d
PH
1388PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1389 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1390 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1391 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1392 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1393 rather than extend the field.
1394
93cfa765 1395
944e9e9c
TF
1396Exim version 4.64
1397-----------------
aa41d2de 1398
21d74bd9
TK
1399TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1400 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1401 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1402 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1403 these files.
1404
1405TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1406 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1407 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1408
1409TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1410 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1411 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1412
1413TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1414 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1415 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1416 in the field name.
1417
2b1c6e3a
PH
1418PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1419 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1420 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1421 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1422 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1423 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1424 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1425 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1426 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1427 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1428 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1429
1f872c80
PH
1430PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1431 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1432
1433PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1434 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1435 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1436 ignores EPIPE as well.
1437
d203e649
PH
1438PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1439 (quoted-printable decoding).
1440
cc2ed8f7 1441PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1442 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1443
ddfcd446
PH
1444PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1445
d45b1de8
PH
1446PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1447
1448PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1449
38a0a95f 1450PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1451 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1452
a2405d83
JJ
1453JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1454 in 4.64-PH/09.
1455
1456JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1457 miscellaneous code fixes
1458
6ea85e9a
PH
1459PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1460 rejections.
1461
26da7e20
PH
1462PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1463 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1464 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1465 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1466 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1467 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1468 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1469 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1470
14aa5a05 1471PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1472 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1473 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1474 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1475 function.
1476 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1477 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1478 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1479 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1480 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1481 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1482 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1483 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1484 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1485
ff75a1f7
PH
1486PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1487 decoding.
1488
e6f6568e
PH
1489PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1490 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1491 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1492 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1493 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1494 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1495 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1496 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1497
d6f6e0dc
PH
1498PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1499 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1500 list.
1501
322050c2
PH
1502PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1503 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1504 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1505 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1506 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1507 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1508 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1509 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1510 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1511 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1512 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1513 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1514 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1515
08955dd3
PH
1516PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1517 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1518 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1519 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1520 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1521 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1522 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1523
1eccaa59
PH
1524PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1525 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1526 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1527 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1528 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1529 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1530 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1531 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1532 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1533 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1534
602e59e5
PH
1535PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1536 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1537 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1538 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1539 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1540
411ef850
PH
1541PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1542 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1543 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1544 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1545 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1546 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1547 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1548
7befa435
PH
1549PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1550 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1551 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1552 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1553 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1554 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1555 been verified.
1556
48da4259 1557PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1558 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1559 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1560 and authorization.)
1561
48da4259
PH
1562PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1563 if any retry times were supplied.
1564
d1d5595c
PH
1565PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1566 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1567 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1568
0ef732d9
PH
1569PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1570
328895cc
PH
1571PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1572
fd700877
PH
1573PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1574 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1575 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1576 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1577 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1578 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1579
8dce1a6f
PH
1580PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1581 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1582
17af4a17
PH
1583PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1584 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1585 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1586
1587PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1588 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1589 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1590 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1591 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1592 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1593 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1594 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1595 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1596
1597 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1598 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1599 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1600 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1601 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1602 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1603 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1604 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1605 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1606
1607 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1608 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1609 hammering the server.
1610
c1114884
PH
1611PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1612 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1613
7a0743eb
PH
1614PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1615
0d85fa3f
PH
1616PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1617 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1618 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1619
1bf43b78
PH
1620PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1621 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1622 one case where this was not true.
1623
520de300
PH
1624PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1625 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1626 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1627 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1628 fails.
1629
48c7f9e2
PH
1630PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1631 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1632 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1633 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1634 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1635 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1636 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1637 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1638 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1639 smtp transport.
1640
99ea1c86
PH
1641PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1642 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1643 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1644 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1645
a2042e78
PH
1646PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1647 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1648
4fbcfc2e
PH
1649PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1650 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1651 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1652
aa41d2de
PH
1653PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1654
af561417
PH
1655PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1656
3cc66b45
PH
1657PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1658
194cc0e4
PH
1659PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1660 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1661 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1662 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1663
a401ddaa
PH
1664PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1665 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1666
4e88a19f
PH
1667PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1668 be meaningful with "accept".
1669
d7d7b289
SC
1670SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1671 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1672
1673SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1674 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1675 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1676
1677SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1678 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1679 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1680 there is data to show.
1681 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1682
1683SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1684 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1685 as well as the number of messages.
1686
1687SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1688 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1689 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1690
1691SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1692 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1693 have a flag are now skipped.
1694
1695SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1696 Added the -emptyok flag.
1697
1698SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1699 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1700
0ea2a468
JJ
1701JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1702 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1703 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1704
1705JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1706 match 4.64-PH/13
1707
1708JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1709 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1710
1711JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1712
1713JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1714 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1715
8a10f5a4
PH
1716PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1717
30e18802
PH
1718PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1719 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1720 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1721 contravention of the specifications.
1722
55728a4f
PH
1723PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1724 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1725 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1726
d7837193
PH
1727PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1728 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1729 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1730
87054a31
PH
1731PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1732
ea2c01d2
MH
1733MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1734 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1735 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1736 some point in the past.
1737
e4fa6968
PH
1738PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1739 transport during callout processing was broken.
1740
56f5d9bd
PH
1741PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1742 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1743
922e1c28
PH
1744PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1745 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1746
21eb6e72
PH
1747PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1748 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1749
a0540757
PH
1750PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1751
944e9e9c 1752
478be7b0
SC
1753Exim version 4.63
1754-----------------
1755
1756SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1757 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1758
1759SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1760 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1761 there is data to show.
1762 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1763
1764SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1765 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1766
2b965a65
TF
1767TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1768 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1769
45b91596
PH
1770TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1771 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1772
c59f5781
TF
1773TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1774 submissions from trusted users.
1775
90fc3069
TF
1776TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1777 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1778
6083aca0
TF
1779TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1780 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1781 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1782 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1783 there is now a framework to start from.
1784
765b530f
PH
1785PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1786 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1787 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1788
4e167a8c
PH
1789PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1790
4608d683
PH
1791PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1792
b8dc3e4a
PH
1793PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1794
5418e93b
PH
1795PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1796 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1797 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1798
b4a9bda2
PH
1799PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1800 libradius.
1801
45b91596
PH
1802PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1803 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1804 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1805
5547e2c5
PH
1806PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1807 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1808 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1809 its arguments.
1810
dbcef0ea
PH
1811PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1812 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1813 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1814 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1815 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1816
25257489
PH
1817PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1818 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1819
c816d124
PH
1820PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1821
a9ccd69a
PH
1822PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1823 operations in malware.c.
1824
75fa1910
PH
1825PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1826 signatures.
1827
a7d7aa58
PH
1828PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1829 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1830 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1831 all.
1832
42119b09
PH
1833PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1834 statements to "add_header".
1835
41609df5
PH
1836PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1837 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1838
a5bd321b
PH
1839PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1840 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1841 latter.
1842
e85a7ad5 1843PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1844 so that it is now:
1845
e85a7ad5
PH
1846 ${if or { \
1847 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1848 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1849 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1850 }{no}{yes}}
1851
e85a7ad5
PH
1852 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1853 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1854
d8fe1c03
PH
1855PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1856 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1857
16282d2b
PH
1858PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1859 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1860 any possible encoding problems.
1861
35d40a98
PH
1862PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1863 but not after initializing Perl.
1864
034d99ab
PH
1865PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1866 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1867 apparently, which is not desirable.
1868
6ec97b1b
PH
1869PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1870 queries.
1871
e22ca4ac
JJ
1872JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1873 --not options
1874
1875JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1876
33d73e3b
PH
1877PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1878 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1879 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1880 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1881
9ecb03f3
PH
1882PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1883 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1884 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1885
084efe8d
PH
1886PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1887 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1888 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1889 0.12.
1890
366fc9f0
PH
1891PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1892 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1893 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1894 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1895 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1896
c59f5781 1897
c887c79e
TF
1898Exim version 4.62
1899-----------------
1900
1901TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1902 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1903
1cce3af8
PH
1904PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1905 patch).
1906
afb3eaaf
PH
1907PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1908 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1909 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1910 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1911 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1912 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1913 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1914 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1915 451 error is used.
1916
e173618b
PH
1917PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1918
dd16e114
PH
1919PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1920 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1921 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1922
f7fd3850
PH
1923PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1924 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1925 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1926 odd errors.
1927
d87df92c
PH
1928PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1929 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1930
7e9f683d
PH
1931PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1932 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1933 option (which defaults to 0600).
1934
bfad5236
PH
1935PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1936
01c490df
PH
1937PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1938 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1939 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1940 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1941 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1942 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1943 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1944
d6629cdc
PH
1945PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1946
1cce3af8 1947
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1948Exim version 4.61
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1950
1951PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1952 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1953 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1954 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1955 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1956 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1957 addresses as local.
1958
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1959PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1960 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1961
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1962PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1963
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1964PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1965 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1966 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1967 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1968 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1969 grumble.
1970
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1971PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1972 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1973
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1974PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1975 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1976 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1977 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1978 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1979
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1980PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1981 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1982 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1983 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1984
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1985PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1986 be the same on different OS.
1987
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1988PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1989 testing.
1990
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1991JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1992 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1993
1994JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1995 in 4.61-PH/06
1996
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1997PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1998 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1999 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2000 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2001 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2002 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2003 bounce message.
2004
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2005PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2006 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2007 when Exim was called.
2008
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2009PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2010 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2011
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2012PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2013 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2014 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2015 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2016
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2017PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2018 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2019 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2020 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2021 changes:
2022
2023 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2024 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2025 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2026
2027 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2028 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2029 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2030
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2031PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2032 feature).
2033
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2034PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2035 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2036 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2037 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2038 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2039 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2040 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2041 values from the SRV records were lost.
2042
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2043PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2044 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2045 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2046
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2047PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2048 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2049 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2050
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2051PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2052 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2053 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2054 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2055 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2056 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2057 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2058 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2059 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2060 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2061
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2062PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2063 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2064 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2065
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2066PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2067 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2068
2069PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2070 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2071 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2072 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2073 is given.
2074
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2075PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2076 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2077 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2078
2079PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2080 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2081 PH/23 above applies.
2082
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2083PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2084 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2085 (for which there is an explicit test).
2086
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2087PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2088
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2089PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2090 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2091 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2092 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2093 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2094
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2095PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2096 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2097 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2098 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2099
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2100PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2101 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2102 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2103
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2104PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2105
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2106PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2107
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2108PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2109 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2110 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2111
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2112PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2113 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2114 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2115 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2116 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2117
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2118PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2119 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2120 the message gets confusing).
2121
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2122PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2123 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2124 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2125 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2126
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2127PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2128 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2129 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2130 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2131 same order.
2132
2133PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2134 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2135 the different processes.
2136
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2137PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2138
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2139PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2140
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2141JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2142 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2143
2144JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2145 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2146
2147JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2148 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2149 messages matching specified criteria.
2150
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2151PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2152
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2153PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2154 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2155
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2156PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2157 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2158 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2159 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2160 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2161 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2162 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2163 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2164 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2165 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2166
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2167PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2168 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2169 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2170
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2171PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2172
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2173PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2174 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2175 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2176 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2177 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2178 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2179 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2180 the variable.
2181
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2182PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2183 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2184
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2185PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2186
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2187PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2188
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2189PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2190
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2191PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2192 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2193 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2194 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2195 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2196 size of the count of files.
2197
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2198PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2199
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2200PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2201 used in LMTP mode:
2202
2203 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2204 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2205 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2206 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2207
2208 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2209 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2210 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2211
2212PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2213 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2214 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2215 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2216 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2217
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2218PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2219 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2220
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2221PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2222 will now be deprecated.
2223
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2224PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2225
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2226JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2227 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2228 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2229
2230JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2231 with very large, slow to parse queues
2232
2233JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2234
2235JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2236
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2237PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2238 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2239 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2240 SMTP output lines.
2241
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2242PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2243 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2244 Sieve code now uses this.
2245
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2246PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2247 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2248
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2249PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2250 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2251
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2252PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2253
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2254PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2255 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2256 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2257 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2258 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2259
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2260PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2261 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2262 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2263 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2264
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2265PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2266
d114ec46
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2267PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2268
f3d7df6c
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2269PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2270 is preferred over IPv4.
2271
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2272PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2273 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2274 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2275 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2276 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2277 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2278 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2279
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2280PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2281 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2282 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2283
2284PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2285
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2286PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2287 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2288 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2289 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2290 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2291 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2292 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2293 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2294 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2295 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2296 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2297
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2298PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2299 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2300 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2301
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2305
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2306PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2307
2308 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2309 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2310
2311 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2312 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2313 statements are most likely to be submissions.
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2315PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2316
2317 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2318 not a single digit.
2319
2320 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2321 string.
2322
2323 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2324 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2325 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2326 silly things.
2327
2328 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2329 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2330
2331 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2332 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2333
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2334PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2335 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2336 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2337
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2338PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2339 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2340
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2341PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2342 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2343
2344 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2345
2346 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2347 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2348 this:
2349
2350 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2351
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PH
2352PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2353 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2354 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2355 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2356 identical. For example:
2357
2358 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2359
2360 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2361 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2362 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2363
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2364PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2365 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2366 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2367 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2368
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2369PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2370 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2371 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2372 message.
2373
87fcc8b9
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2374PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2375
2376 o fixes some comments
2377 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2378 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2379 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2380 and documents the missing references header update
2381
2382 and most important:
2383
2384 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2385 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2386 result)
2387
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2388PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2389 Electronic Mail") by including:
2390
2391 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2392
2393 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2394 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2395 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2396 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2397 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2398
2399 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2400
2401 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2402
2403 The auto-replied keyword:
2404
2405 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2406 message by an automatic process,
2407
2408 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2409
2410 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2411 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2412
2413 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2414 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2415 other messages.
2416
3e46c1aa
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2417PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2418 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2419
49826d12
PH
2420PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2421
eba0c039
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2422PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2423 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2424 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2425
a0d6ba8a
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2426PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2427 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2428 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2429
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2430PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2431 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2432 and treats the condition as false.
2433
096fee00
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2434PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2435
024bd3c2
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2436PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2437 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2438 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2439 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2440 not changing the active code.
2441
2442 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2443 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2444
2445 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2446 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2447
df199fec
PH
2448PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2449 (Bugzilla #53).
2450
d27f1df3
PH
2451PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2452 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2453 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2454 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2455 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2456 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2457 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2458 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2459 the text comparison.
2460
96776534
PH
2461PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2462 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2463 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2464 The same fix has been applied.
2465
5de37277 2466
9a799bc0
PH
2467Exim version 4.54
2468-----------------
2469
2470PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2471 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2472 It now does.
2473
99a4b039
PH
2474PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2475 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2476
2477PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2478
4b233853
PH
2479PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2480 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2481 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2482 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2483 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2484
8857ccfd
PH
2485TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2486 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2487 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2488 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2489 or /domain=).
2490
433a2980
PH
2491PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2492 testing suite.
2493
3e46c1aa 2494
9a799bc0 2495
e3a311ba
TK
2496Exim version 4.53
2497-----------------
2498
2499TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2500 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2501
13b685f9
PH
2502PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2503
395ff96d
PH
2504PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2505
5b68f6e4
PH
2506PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2507 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2508 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2509
1ab52c69
PH
2510PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2511 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2512 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2513
b07e6aa3
PH
2514PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2515 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2516 operating systems.
2517
254e032f
PH
2518PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2519 ${stat: expansion item.
2520
3af76a81
PH
2521PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2522 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2523
2548ba04
PH
2524PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2525 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2526 file for comments.
2527
b6c6011d
PH
2528PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2529
cf39cf57
PH
2530PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2531 setting.
2532
f1513293
PH
2533PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2534 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2535
727549a4
PH
2536TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2537
af46795e
PH
2538PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2539 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2540 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2541 the end of the subprocess.
2542
d7b47fd0
PH
2543PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2544 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2545 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2546 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2547 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2548
ee744174
JJ
2549JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2550
b582ab87
PH
2551TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2552
41a13e0a
PH
2553PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2554 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2555
f625cc5a
PH
2556PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2557
2558PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2559
21f7af35
PH
2560PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2561 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2562 HP-UX compiler.
2563
31480e42
PH
2564PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2565
2d280592
PH
2566PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2567 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2568 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2569
7cd1141b
PH
2570PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2571 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2572
2573PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2574 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2575
750af86e
PH
2576PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2577 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2578
2579 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2580 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2581
2582 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2583 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2584 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2585 contributed by a Radius user.
2586
2587PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2588 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2589
4304270b
TK
2590TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2591 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2592
750af86e
PH
2593PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2594 available.
2595
64ffc24f
PH
2596PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2597 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2598 received.
2599
5dd9625b
PH
2600PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2601 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2602 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2603 header lines when this was not necessary.
2604
5591031b
PH
2605PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2606
ba18e66a
PH
2607PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2608 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2609 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2610 exists".
2611
9cec981f
PH
2612PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2613 -bV or -d is used.
2614
aa2b5c79
PH
2615PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2616 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2617 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2618 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2619
48a53b7f
PH
2620PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2621
1c59d63b
PH
2622PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2623
671012da
TK
2624TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2625
1509d3a8
PH
2626PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2627
2628PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2629 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2630 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2631 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2632 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2633 settings.
2634
2635PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2636
2fe1a124
PH
2637PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2638 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2639 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2640 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2641 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2642 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2643 which is clearly wrong.
2644
8800895a
PH
2645PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2646
ccfdb010
PH
2647PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2648 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2649 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2650 subsequently added.
2651
1130bfb0
PH
2652PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2653 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2654
ebcb507f
PH
2655PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2656
c35e155c
PH
2657PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2658 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2659
95d1f782
PH
2660PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2661 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2662
fd6de02e
PH
2663PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2664 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2665
58de37c5
PH
2666PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2667 recipients, not senders.
2668
261cf466
TF
2669TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2670 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2671
3ee512ff
PH
2672PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2673
e08c430f
PH
2674PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2675
bef5a11f
PH
2676PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2677 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2678 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2679 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2680
7546de58
TF
2681TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2682
e5d5a95f
TF
2683TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2684 clock is set back in time.
2685
2e88a017
TF
2686TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2687 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2688
a5f65aa4
TF
2689TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2690 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2691
e7726cbf
PH
2692PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2693 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2694 (see PH/47 above).
2695
a7fdad5b
TF
2696TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2697 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2698 header rewrites.
2699
6af56900
PH
2700PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2701 type ("H").
2702
0925ede6
PH
2703PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2704
66afa403
TF
2705TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2706 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2707 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2708
0154e85a
TF
2709TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2710 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2711 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2712 helo verification defer as a failure.
2713
16f12c76
PH
2714PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2715 actual error message.
2716
bbe902f0 2717
e5a9dba6
PH
2718Exim version 4.52
2719-----------------
2720
2721TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2722
22c3b60b
PH
2723PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2724 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2725 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2726 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2727
06a9b4b5
PH
2728TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2729
c1ac6996
PH
2730PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2731 can still be requested.
2732
9c7a242c
PH
2733PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2734 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2735 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2736 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2737
87ba3f5f
PH
2738TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2739 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2740 circumstances, but probably never did.
2741
2742PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2743 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2744 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2745 in the header line.
2746
29aba418
TF
2747TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2748
fe0dab11
TF
2749TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2750 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2751
11d337a4
TK
2752TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2753
2754TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2755
415c8f3b
PH
2756PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2757 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2758 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2759 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2760 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2761 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2762
958541e9
PH
2763PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2764 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2765 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2766 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2767 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2768 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2769
c206415f
TK
2770TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2771 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2772
2a4be8f9
PH
2773PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2774 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2775
1cba11c5
SC
2776SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2777 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2778
2779SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2780
2781SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2782
2783SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2784
2785SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2786
2787SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2788
2789SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2790
1005d00e
TK
2791TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2792
2793TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2794 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2795 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2796
2797TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2798 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2799 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2800 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2801
9b4768fa
PH
2802PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2803 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2804 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2805
2806PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2807 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2808 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2809 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2810
0d7eb84a
PH
2811PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2812 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2813 to be made).
2814
2815PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2816 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2817 should work with maildirs and everything.
2818
40727bee
TK
2819TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2820 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2821
554d2369
TF
2822TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2823 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2824
1f922db1
PH
2825PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2826 function for BDB 4.3.
2827
ef213c3b
PH
2828PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2829
8ac170f3
PH
2830PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2831 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2832 involved.
2833
b1c749bb
PH
2834PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2835 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2836 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2837 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2838 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2839 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2840
4aac9b49
PH
2841PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2842 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2843 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2844 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2845 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2846 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2847 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2848 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2849
294520c8
TK
2850TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2851 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2852 details.
2853
5bd022fe
PH
2854PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2855 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2856
90e9ce59
PH
2857PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2858 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2859 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2860 test. It is now used for both.
2861
5ea81592
PH
2862PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2863 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2864 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2865 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2866 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2867 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2868
c6c2dc1d
PH
2869PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2870 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2871 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2872 string_vformat().
2873
fffffe4c
PH
2874PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2875 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2876 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2877
9a26b6b2
PH
2878PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2879 experimental DomainKeys support:
2880
2881 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2882 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2883 the control was given.
2884
2885 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2886
4aee0225
PH
2887PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2888
32d668a5
PH
2889PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2890
8187c3f3
PH
2891PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2892 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2893 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2894 db.h files).
2895
ff790e47 2896PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2897 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2898 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2899 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2900 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2901 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2902 course.
ff790e47 2903
5417f6d1
PH
2904PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2905 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2906 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2907 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2908 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2909 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2910
59cf8544
PH
2911PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2912 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2913 do -d+all out of habit.
2914
e7ad8a65
PH
2915PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2916 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2917 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2918
ade42478
PH
2919PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2920 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2921 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2922 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2923 record types that Exim uses.
2924
182ad5cf
PH
2925PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2926 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2927 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2928 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2929 non-existent file that was broken.
2930
b0d9fc80
TK
2931TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2932 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2933
2934TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2935 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2936 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2937
2938TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2939
47c7a64a
PH
2940PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2941 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2942 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2943 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2944 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2945 same time.
2946
a388bce4
SC
2947SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2948 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2949 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2950 at a slight CPU cost.
2951
2952SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2953 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2954
2955SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2956 by Marc Sherman.
2957
0793e4ed
SC
2958SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2959
c58b88df
PH
2960PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2961 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2962
e7ad8a65 2963
7982096b
PH
2964Exim version 4.51
2965-----------------
2966
1a46a8c5
PH
2967TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2968 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2969
2f079f46 2970TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2971
2972TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2973
2974PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2975 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2976
2977PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2978 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2979 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2980 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2981 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2982 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2983 file.
2984
2985PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2986 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2987 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2988 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2989 these two options.
2990
2991PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2992 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2993 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2994 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2995 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2996 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2997 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2998 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2999
3000PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3001 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3002
3003PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3004 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3005 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3006 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3007 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3008 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3009
3010PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3011 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3012 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3013 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3014
3015PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3016 Finch).
3017
3018PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3019 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3020
49c2d5ea
PH
3021PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3022 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3023 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3024 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3025 message.
49c2d5ea 3026
bf759a8b
PH
3027PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3028
83364d30
PH
3029PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3030 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3031
7999bbd7
PH
3032PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3033 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3034 to what was transported.)
3035
7dbf77c9
PH
3036TF/01 Added $received_time.
3037
74e0617f
PH
3038PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3039 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3040 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3041 spamd_address settings.
3042
2f079f46
PH
3043PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3044 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3045 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3046 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3047 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3048
8c841523
PH
3049PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3050
7766a4f0
PH
3051PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3052 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3053 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3054 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3055 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3056
8b417f2c
PH
3057PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3058 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3059
901f42cb
PH
3060PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3061 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3062 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3063 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3064 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3065 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3066 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3067 for failure.
3068
f9b9210e
PH
3069PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3070 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3071 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3072 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3073 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3074 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3075 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3076 "input=".
3077
54cdb463
PH
3078PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3079
cf00dad6
PH
3080PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3081 driver and ACL definitions.
3082
acb1b346
PH
3083PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3084 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3085
c5ddb310
PH
3086PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3087 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3088 understands it better than I do:
3089
3090 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3091 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3092
3093 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3094 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3095 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3096 => three warnings about OTP not working
3097 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3098
3099 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3100 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3101 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3102 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3103 for each call.)
3104 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3105 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3106
3107 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3108 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3109 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3110
31619da6
PH
3111PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3112 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3113 specified.
3114
bebaf0fc
PH
3115PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3116 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3117 "Linux".
3118
475fe28a
PH
3119PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3120 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3121 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3122
3123 warn !verify = sender
3124 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3125
3126 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3127 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3128
7e8bec7a
PH
3129PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3130
3131 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3132 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3133
3134 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3135 nomenclature these days.)
3136
e4a89c47
PH
3137PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3138 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3139
5ca2a9a1
PH
3140PH/30 In these circumstances:
3141 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3142 . First host does not offer TLS;
3143 . First host accepts first address;
3144 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3145 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3146 . Second host accepts second address.
3147 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3148 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3149 address.
7e8bec7a 3150
c688b954
PH
3151PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3152 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3153 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3154 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3155 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3156
fed77020
PH
3157PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3158 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3159
7fe1560f
PH
3160PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3161 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3162
ebb6e6d5
PH
3163PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3164 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3165 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3166
9c4e8f60
PH
3167PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3168 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3169 overlooked.
3170
3171PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3172
d7174846
PH
3173PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3174 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3175 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3176 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3177 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3178 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3179 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3180
3181 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3182 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3183 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3184 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3185 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3186
3187 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3188 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3189 routed further.
3190
cfe75fc3
PH
3191PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3192 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3193 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3194 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3195 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3196 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3197
be22d70e
PH
3198PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3199
0612b098
PH
3200PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3201 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3202 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3203 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3204 printable escape sequences.
3205
2e0c1448
PH
3206PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3207 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3208 body only.
3209
447d236c
PH
3210PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3211 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3212 are as follows:
3213
3214 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3215 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3216 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3217 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3218 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3219
3220 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3221 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3222 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3223
d20976dc
PH
3224PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3225
f656d135
PH
3226PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3227 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3228 play with."
3229
2e2a30b4
PH
3230PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3231 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3232 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3233 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3234 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3235 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3236 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3237 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3238 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3239 the log output.
3240
9176e9f0
PH
3241PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3242 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3243 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3244 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3245 "make".
3246
7982096b 3247
bbe902f0
PH
3248A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3249----------------------------------------
3250
3251Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3252changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3253needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3254in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3255that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3256release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3257from 4.43.
3258
3259I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
32604.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3261those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3262historical information.
3263
3264
f7b63901 3265Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3266-----------------
3267
5fe762f6
PH
3268 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3269
139059f6 3270 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3271 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3272
7086e875
PH
3273 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3274 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3275 place.
3276
35af9f61
PH
3277 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3278 filter fails to execute.
3279
b668c215
PH
3280 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3281 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3282 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3283 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3284 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3285
a494b1e1
PH
3286 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3287
3288 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3289 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3290 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3291 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3292
c5fcb476
PH
3293 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3294 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3295 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3296 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3297 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3298
69358f02
PH
3299 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3300
5be20824
PH
330110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3302
eb2c0248
PH
330311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3304 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3305 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3306 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3307
2a3eea10
PH
330812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3309 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3310 sender verification.
3311
331213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3313 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3314
23c7ff99
PH
331514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3316
4deaf07d
PH
331715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3318 connection timeout.
3319
926e1192
PH
332016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3321 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3322
650edc6f
PH
332317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3324 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3325
2c7db3f5
PH
332618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3327 information about exactly what failed.
3328
3d235903
PH
332919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3330
7c7ad977
PH
333120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3332 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3333 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3334
981756db
PH
333521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3336 It is now set to "smtps".
3337
d4eb88df
PH
333822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3339 ignore_target_hosts.
3340
334123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3342 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3343 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3344 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3345 "[x.x.x.x]".
3346
7d468ab8
PH
334724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3348 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3349 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3350
335125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3352 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3353 wake it up if nothing else does.
3354
62c0818f
PH
335526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3356 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3357 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3358 end up negative.
3359
26034054
PH
336027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3361 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3362
af66f652
PH
336328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3364
90af77f4
PH
336529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3366 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3367 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3368 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3369 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3370 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3371 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3372 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3373
d8ef3577
PH
337430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3375 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3376 than one IP address.
3377
5cb8cbc6
PH
337831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3379 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3380 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3381 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3382
14702f5b
PH
338332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3384 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3385 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3386 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3387 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3388 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3389
063b1e99
PH
339033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3391 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3392 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3393 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3394
652e1b65
PH
339534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3396 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3397 respected.
3398
6f0c9a4f
PH
339935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3400 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3401 $sender_host_address.
3402
33397d19
PH
340336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3404 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3405 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3406 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3407 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3408 very small.
3409
7bb56e1f
PH
341037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3411
3412 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3413 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3414
ea3bc19b
PH
3415 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3416 just the host names, not the priorities.
3417
3418 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3419 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3420 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3421
ea3bc19b 3422 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3423 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3424
0bcb2a0e
PH
342538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3426 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3427 domain.
3428
2ac0e484
PH
342939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3430
4e1fde53
PH
343140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3432 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3433
de365ded
PH
343441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3435 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3436 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3437
f05da2e8
PH
343842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3439
d6453af2
PH
344043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3441
f7b63901
PH
344244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3443
344445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3445 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3446 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3447 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3448 because the tests only now provoked it.
3449
a444213a
PH
345046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3451 (this can affect the format of dates).
3452
0ec020ea
PH
345347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3454 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3455 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3456 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3457
b1206957
PH
345848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3459
346049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3461 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3462 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3463 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3464
26dd5a95
PH
346550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3466 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3467 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3468
343b2385
PH
346951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3470 autoreply.
3471
1c5466b9
PH
347252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3473 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3474 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3475 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3476 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3477 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3478 is going on).
3479
55ee9ee3
PH
348053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3481 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3482 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3483 the line.
3484
d38f8232
PH
348554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3486 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3487 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3488
3489 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3490 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3491 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3492 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3493 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3494 so I produce this patch..."
3495
3295e65b
PH
3496 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3497 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3498 is not defined.
3499
7102e136
PH
350055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3501 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3502 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3503 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3504 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3505
3ca0ba97
PH
350656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3507
c2bcbe20
PH
350857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3509 long debug lines gets shown.
3510
18ce445d
PH
351158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3512 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3513
1f5b4c3d
PH
351459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3515
3516 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3517 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3518 of $primary_hostname.
3519
b975ba52
PH
352060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3521 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3522 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3523 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3524 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3525 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3526 by change 4.50/55 above.
3527
3528 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3529 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3530 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3531 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3532 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3533 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3534 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3535
353661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3537 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3538 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3539 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3540
17ffcae7
PH
354162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3542 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3543
d95f9fdb
PH
354463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3545 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3546 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3547 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3548 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3549
86b8287f
PH
355064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3551 This has been fixed.
3552
60dc5e56
PH
355365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3554 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3555 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3556 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3557 the caching.)
3558
533244af
PH
355966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3560
a5a28604
PH
356167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3562 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3563 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3564 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3565
7e634d24
PH
356668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3567 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3568
3e11c26b
PH
356969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3570 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3571 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3572
6729cf78
PH
357370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3574 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3575 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3576 message there.
3577
00f00ca5
PH
357871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3579 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3580 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3581
c9bdd01c
PH
358272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3583 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3584 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3585 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3586
d43194df
PH
358773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3588 during host lookups.
3589
fe5b5d0b
PH
359074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3591 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3592
3593 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3594
76a2d7ba
PH
359575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3596 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3597 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3598 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3599 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3600 background.
3601
360276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3603 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3604
04f7d5b9
PH
360577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3606 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3607 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3608
bc60667e
PH
360978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3610
bb6e88ff
PH
361179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3612 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3613 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3614 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3615 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3616 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3617 process earlier.
3618
1e70f85b
PH
361980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3620 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3621 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3622 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3623 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3624
362581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3626 tables).
3627
4e01f9d6
PH
362882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3629
1ee1cef2
PH
363083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3631 "vacation" handling.
3632
6e2b4ccc
PH
363384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3634 OS variants using glibc.
3635
8e669ac1
PH
363685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3637
495ae4b0 3638
bbe902f0
PH
3639----------------------------------------------------
3640See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3641----------------------------------------------------
3642
3643
3644Exim version 4.44
3645-----------------
3646
3647 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3648 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3649 transport
3650
3651 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3652 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3653 place.
3654
3655 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3656 filter fails to execute.
3657
3658 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3659 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3660 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3661 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3662 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3663
3664 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3665 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3666 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3667 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3668
3669 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3670 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3671 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3672 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3673 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3674
3675 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3676
3677 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3678 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3679 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3680 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3681
3682 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3683 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3684 sender verification.
3685
368610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3687 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3688
368911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3690 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3691
369212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3693 ignore_target_hosts.
3694
369513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3696 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3697 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3698 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3699 "[x.x.x.x]".
3700
370114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3702 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3703 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3704
370515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3706 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3707 wake it up if nothing else does.
3708
370916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3710 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3711 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3712 end up negative.
3713
371417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3715 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3716
ea3a6f44 371718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3718
371919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3720 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3721 empty pattern.
3722
372320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3724 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3725 one IP address.
3726
ea3a6f44
NM
372721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3728 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3729 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3730 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3731 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3732 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3733
ea3a6f44
NM
373422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3735 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3736 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3737
373823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3739 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3740 $sender_host_address.
3741
374224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3743
ea3a6f44
NM
374425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3745 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3746 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3747
374826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3749 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3750
ea3a6f44
NM
375127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3752 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3753
ea3a6f44
NM
375428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3755 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3756 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3757 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3758
375929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3760 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3761 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3762
ea3a6f44
NM
376330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3764 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3765 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3766 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3767
ea3a6f44
NM
376831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3769 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3770 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3771
ea3a6f44
NM
377231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3773 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3774
ea3a6f44
NM
377532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3776 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3777 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3778 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3779 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3780 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3781 is going on).
bbe902f0 3782
ea3a6f44
NM
378333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3784 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3785 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3786 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3787 CAN-2005-0021
3788
ea3a6f44
NM
378934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3790 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3791 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3792 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3793 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3794 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3795 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3796
3797 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3798 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3799 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3800 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3801 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3802 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3803 CAN-2005-0021
3804
ea3a6f44
NM
380535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3806 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3807 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3808 CAN-2005-0022
3809
ea3a6f44
NM
381036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3811 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3812 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3813 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3814 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3815
ea3a6f44
NM
381637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3817 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3818 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3819 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3820 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3821
ea3a6f44
NM
382238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3823 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3824 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3825 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3826 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3827
3828
495ae4b0
PH
3829Exim version 4.43
3830-----------------
3831
3832 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3833 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3834 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3835 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3836 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3837 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3838 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3839
3840 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3841 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3842 the delivery.
3843
3844 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3845
3846 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3847
3848 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3849 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3850 to local_scan().
3851
3852 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3853 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3854 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3855 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3856 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3857
3858 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3859 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3860
3861 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3862
3863 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3864
386510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3866 header_sender only.
3867
386811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3869 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3870
387112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3872 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3873 affecting debugging statements).
3874
387513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3876
387714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3878 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3879 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3880 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3881 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3882 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3883 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3884 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3885 after the received time, and all would be well.
3886
388715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3888 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3889 condition in an expansion string.
3890
389116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3892
389317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3894 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3895 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3896 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3897 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3898 job under whatever limits there are.
3899
390018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3901
390219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3903 space).
3904
390520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3906 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3907 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3908 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3909 return path is set.
3910
391121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3912 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3913 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3914 binary data in such strings.
3915
391622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3917
391823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3919 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3920 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3921 failure, which is pointless.
3922
392324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3924
392525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3926
392726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3928 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3929 Sender: header lines.
3930
393127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3932 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3933 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3934
393528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3936 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3937 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3938 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3939 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3940 happens.
3941
394229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3943 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3944 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3945 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3946 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3947
394830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3949 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3950 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3951 1024.
3952
395331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3954 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3955
395632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3957 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3958
395933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3960
396132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3962
396333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3964
396534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3966 syntax error.
3967
396835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3969
397036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3971
397237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3973 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3974 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3975 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3976
397738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3978 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3979
3980
3981Exim version 4.42
3982-----------------
3983
3984 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3985 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3986 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3987 it was not quoted.
3988 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3989 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3990 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3991 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3992 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3993 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3994
3995 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3996 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3997 verification failure".
3998
3999 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4000 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4001 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4002 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4003
4004 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4005 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4006 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4007 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4008 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4009 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4010 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4011 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4012 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4013 treated as a timeout.
4014
4015 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4016 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4017 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4018 not set for Exim filters).
4019
4020 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4021 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4022 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4023
4024 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4025
4026 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4027 try to make them clearer.
4028
4029 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4030 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4031
4032 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4033
4034 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4035
403610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4037 only the Cygwin environment.
4038
403911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4040 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4041 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4042 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4043 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4044
404512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4046 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4047 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4048 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4049 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4050 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4051 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4052
405313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4054 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4055
405614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4057
4058 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4059 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4060 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4061
4062 To: susanne@some.where
4063
4064 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4065 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4066 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4067 of addresses in From: header lines).
4068
4069 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4070 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4071 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4072
4073 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4074 treated as non-personal.
4075
4076 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4077 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4078
407915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4080
408116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4082
408317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4084 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4085 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4086
408718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4088 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4089
409019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4091 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4092 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4093 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4094 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4095 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4096
409720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4098 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4099 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4100 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4101 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4102 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4103 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4104 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4105
4106 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4107
410821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4109 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4110
411122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4112 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4113 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4114
411523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4116 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4117
411824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4119 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4120 rather than long int.
4121
412225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4123
412426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4125
4126
4127Exim version 4.41
4128-----------------
4129
4130 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4131 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4132 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4133 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4134 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4135 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4136
4137
4138Exim version 4.40
4139-----------------
4140
4141 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4142 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4143
4144 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4145 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4146 socklen_t is defined.
4147
4148 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4149 always exist.
4150
4151 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4152 configured.
4153
4154 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4155 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4156 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4157 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4158 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4159
4160 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4161 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4162 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4163 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4164
4165 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4166 of flapping under certain conditions.
4167
4168 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4169 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4170 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4171
4172 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4173
417410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4175
417611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4177 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4178 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4179 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4180
418112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4182 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4183 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4184 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4185 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4186 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4187 preserved with the message after it was received.
4188
418913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4190 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4191 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4192 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4193 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4194 test suite worked just fine.
4195
419614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4197 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4198 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4199
420015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4201 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4202 string.
4203
420416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4205 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4206 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4207 does not fully solve it.
4208
420917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4210 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4211 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4212 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4213 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4214
421518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4216 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4217 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4218
421919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4220 string, for example:
4221
4222 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4223
4224 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4225 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4226 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4227 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4228 the routers could not see them.
4229
423020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4231 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4232
423321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4234 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4235 output).
4236
423722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4238 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4239 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4240 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4241 that needed quoting.
4242
424323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4244 was not being matched caselessly.
4245
424624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4247 backslashes.
4248
424925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4250 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4251 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4252 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4253 when use_sender is false.
4254
425526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4256
425727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4258
425928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4260
426129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4262 the configuration file.
4263
426430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4265 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4266
426731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4268
426932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4270 bytes in the message body.
4271
427233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4273 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4274 delivery.
4275
427634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4277
427835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4279
428036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4281 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4282 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4283 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4284 another IP address.
4285
4286
4287Exim version 4.34
4288-----------------
4289
4290 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4291 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4292
4293 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4294 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4295 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4296 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4297 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4298
4299 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4300 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4301
4302 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4303 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4304 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4305
4306 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4307 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4308 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4309
4310 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4311 for routers.
4312
4313 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4314 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4315 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4316 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4317 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4318 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4319 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4320
4321
4322Exim version 4.33
4323-----------------
4324
4325 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4326 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4327 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4328 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4329 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4330 default (and expected) setting.
4331
4332 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4333 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4334 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4335 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4336
4337 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4338 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4339
4340 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4341 in domain lists.
4342
4343 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4344 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4345 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4346 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4347 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4348 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4349
4350 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4351 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4352 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4353
4354 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4355 part (NOT match_host).
4356
4357 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4358
4359 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4360 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4361 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4362 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4363 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4364 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4365 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4366 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4367 the same named file.
4368
436910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4370 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4371 when Exim is built.
4372
437311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4374 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4375 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4376 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4377 a host name.
4378
437912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4380 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4381 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4382
438313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4384
438514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4386
438715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4388
438916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4390 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4391
439217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4393 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4394 before starting the TLS session.
4395
439618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4397
439819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4399 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4400
440120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4402 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4403 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4404 colon in the middle).
4405
4406
4407Exim version 4.32
4408-----------------
4409
4410 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4411 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4412 multiple configurations are in use.
4413
4414 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4415 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4416 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4417 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4418 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4419 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4420
4421 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4422 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4423
4424 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4425 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4426 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4427
4428 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4429 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4430 occurs.
4431
4432 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4433 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4434
4435 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4436
4437 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4438 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4439
4440 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4441
4442 -prval:sval
4443
4444 is equivalent to
4445
4446 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4447
4448 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4449 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4450 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4451 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4452 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4453
445410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4455 Exim's behaviour:
4456
4457 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4458 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4459 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4460 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4461 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4462 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4463
4464 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4465 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4466 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4467 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4468 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4469 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4470 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4471 string.
4472
4473 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4474 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4475 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4476 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4477 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4478
447911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4480
448112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4482 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4483 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4484
448513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4486
448714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4488 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4489 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4490 information.
4491
449215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4493 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4494
449516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4496 Three changes have been made:
4497
4498 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4499 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4500 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4501 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4502 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4503
4504 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4505 been restored.
4506
4507 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4508 the modified behaviour.
4509
4510
4511Exim version 4.31
4512-----------------
4513
4514 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4515 Larry Rosenman.
4516
4517 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4518 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4519
4520 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4521 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4522 try to track down a specific problem.
4523
4524 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4525 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4526 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4527
4528 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4529 warning.
4530
4531 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4532 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4533 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4534 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4535 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4536 some earlier ones do not.
4537
4538 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4539
4540 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4541 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4542 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4543 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4544 address literals are enabled, of course).
4545
4546 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4547
454810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4549 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4550 by a command such as
4551
4552 exim -f "" ...
4553
4554 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4555
455611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4557
455812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4559 remained set. It is now erased.
4560
456113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4562 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4563
456414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4565 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4566 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4567 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4568 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4569 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4570 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4571 appropriate error code.
4572
457315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4574 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4575 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4576 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4577 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4578 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4579
458016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4581 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4582 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4583
458417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4585 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4586 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4587 terminate the header.
4588
458918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4590 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4591 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4592
459319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4594 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4595 (4.30/29). In particular:
4596
4597 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4598 imposed.
4599
4600 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4601 to write a maildirsize file.
4602
4603 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4604 the transport, the new value overrides.
4605
4606 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4607 count.
4608
460920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4610 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4611 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4612 space or a tab.
4613
461421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4615 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4616 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4617 the fallback hosts.
4618
461922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4620 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4621 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4622
462323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4624 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4625 using a union.
4626
462724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4628 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4629 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4630
463125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4632
463326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4634
463527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4636
463728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4638 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4639 become corrupted.
4640
464129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4642 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4643 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4644 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4645 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4646 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4647 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4648 too great.
4649
465030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4651 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4652 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4653 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4654 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4655 incorrectly.
4656
465731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4658 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4659 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4660 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4661 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4662 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4663 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4664 cached value only when the same options are set.
4665
466632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4667
466833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4669 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4670 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4671 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4672 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4673
467434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4675 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4676 it is clearly obsolete.
4677
467835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4679 transport.
4680
468136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4682 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4683 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4684 times.
4685
468637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4687 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4688 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4689 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4690 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4691
469238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4693 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4694 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4695 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4696
469739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4698
4699 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4700
4701 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4702 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4703 2^31.
4704
470540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4706 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4707 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4708 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4709 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4710 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4711 $localpart_data.
4712
471341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4714 with the -f command-line option.
4715
471642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4717 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4718 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4719 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4720 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4721 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4722
472343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4724 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4725 line.
4726
472744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4728 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4729 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4730 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4731 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4732 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4733 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4734 buffer is too small.
4735
473645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4737 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4738
473946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4740 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4741 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4742 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4743 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4744 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4745 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4746 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4747 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4748
474947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4750 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4751 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4752
475348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4754 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4755 ACL").
4756
475749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4758 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4759 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4760 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4761 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4762
476350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4764 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4765 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4766 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4767 is set.
4768
476951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4770
477152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4772
477353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4774 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4775
477654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4777 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4778 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4779
478055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4781 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4782 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4783 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4784 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4785
478656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4787 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4788 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4789 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4790 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4791 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4792 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4793
479457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4795 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4796 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4797 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4798 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4799 the test of how many are available.
4800
480158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4802 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4803 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4804 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4805 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4806 new message is started.
4807
480859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4809 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4810
481160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4812 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4813
481461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4815 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4816 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4817 is no long logged.
4818
481962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4820 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4821 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4822 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4823 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4824 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4825 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4826
482763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4828 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4829 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4830 interpreted as octal.
4831
483264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4833 setting.
4834
483565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4836 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4837 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4838 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4839 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4840 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4841
484266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4843 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4844 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4845 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4846
4847 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4848 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4849 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4850 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4851
4852 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4853 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4854 is a bug fix.
4855
4856 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4857 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4858
485967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4860
486168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4862 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4863 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4864 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4865
486669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4867 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4868 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4869 supplied", which is not helpful.
4870
487170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4872 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4873 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4874
487571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4876 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4877 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4878 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4879 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4880 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4881 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4882 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4883
488472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4885 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4886 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4887 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4888 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4889
489073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4891 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4892 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4893 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4894 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4895 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4896
489774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4898 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4899 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4900
490175. Added write_rejectlog option.
4902
490376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4904 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4905 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4906 variables.
4907
490877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4909
491078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4911 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4912 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4913 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4914 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4915 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4916 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4917 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4918
491979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4920 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4921 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4922 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4923 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4924
492580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4926 Haardt.
4927
492881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4929 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4930 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4931 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4932 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4933 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4934 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4935 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4936 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4937
4938
4939Exim version 4.30
4940-----------------
4941
4942 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4943 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4944 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4945
4946 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4947 fixed.
4948
4949 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4950 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4951 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4952
4953 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4954 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4955 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4956 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4957 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4958 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4959
4960 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4961 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4962 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4963 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4964 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4965 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4966 the Exim test suite.
4967
4968 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4969 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4970 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4971 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4972
4973 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4974 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4975 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4976 specify it in this variable.
4977
4978 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4979 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4980 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4981 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4982
4983 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4984 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4985 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4986 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4987
4988 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4989 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4990 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4991 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4992 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4993
4994 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4995
499610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4997 they are logged.
4998
499911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5000 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5001 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5002 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5003 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5004
500512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5006 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5007
500813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5009 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5010 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5011 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5012 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5013
501414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5015 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5016
501715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5018 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5019 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5020
502116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5022 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5023
502417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5025 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5026
502718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5028 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5029 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5030
503119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5032 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5033
503420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5035 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5036 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5037 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5038
503921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5040
504122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5042 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5043 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5044 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5045
504623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5047
504824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5049 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5050
505125. Added .include_if_exists.
5052
505326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5054 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5055 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5056 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5057 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5058 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5059
506027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5061
506228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5063 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5064 this.
5065
506629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5067
506830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5069 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5070
5071 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5072 550 Sender verify failed
5073
5074 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5075 the final line of the response.
5076
507731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5078 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5079 all other user lookups.
5080
508132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5082 delivery time.
5083
508433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5085 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5086 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5087 result into an int without checking.
5088
508934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5090 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5091 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5092
509335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5094 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5095 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5096 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5097
509836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5099 correctly.
5100
510137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5102 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5103
510438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5105 to the empty sender.
5106
510739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5108 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5109 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5110 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5111 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5112 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5113 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5114 panic log.
5115
511640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5117 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5118 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5119 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5120 used.
5121
512241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5123 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5124
512542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5126 timestamps.
5127
512843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5129 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5130
513144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5132
513345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5134 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5135 logs.
5136
513746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5138 as soon as it is encountered.
5139
514047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5141
514248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5143 rewritten to "<>".
5144
514549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5146 recognizes a tab character.
5147
514850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5149 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5150 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5151 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5152
515351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5154
515552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5156 crash.
5157
515853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5159
516054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5161
516255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5163 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5164 2822.
5165
516656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5167 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5168 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5169 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5170 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5171
517257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5173 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5174
517558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5176 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5177 list (.included file names were always shown).
5178
517959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5180 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5181 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5182 root at that time.
5183
518460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5185 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5186
518761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5188
518962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5190
519163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5192
519364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5194 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5195 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5196 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5197 failures to open the logs.
5198
519965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5200 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5201 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5202 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5203 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5204 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5205 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5206
5207
5208Exim version 4.24
5209-----------------
5210
5211 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5212 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5213 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5214 change 4.23/1.
5215
5216 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5217 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5218 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5219
5220 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5221 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5222 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5223
5224 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5225 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5226 causing some misleading effects.
5227
5228 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5229 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5230 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5231
5232 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5233 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5234 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5235 queue-runner function directly.
5236
5237
5238Exim version 4.23
5239-----------------
5240
5241 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5242 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5243
5244 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5245 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5246 was always written to the default place.
5247
5248 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5249 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5250 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5251
5252 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5253
5254 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5255
5256 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5257 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5258 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5259
5260 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5261 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5262 must start.
5263
5264 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5265 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5266 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5267
5268 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5269 command line option is disabled.
5270
5271 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5272 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5273
5274 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5275
5276 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5277
5278 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5279 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5280
528110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5282
528311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5284 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5285 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5286 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5287 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5288 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5289
529012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5291 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5292 timeout.
5293
529413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5295 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5296
529714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5298 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5299
530015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5301 received was valid base64.
5302
530316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5304 name of the variable that was being set.
5305
530617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5307
530818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5309 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5310 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5311 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5312 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5313 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5314
531519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5316
531720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5318 nor realm was specified.
5319
532021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5321 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5322 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5323 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5324
532522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5326 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5327 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5328
532923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5330 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5331 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5332
533324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5334 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5335 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5336 some systems use these upper case variants.
5337
533825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5339 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5340 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5341 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5342
534326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5344
534527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5346 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5347
534828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5349 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5350 expansion variable.
5351
535229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5353
535430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5355 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5356 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5357 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5358
535931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5360 using it.
5361
536232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5363 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5364 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5365
536633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5367 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5368
536934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5370 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5371 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5372 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5373
537435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5375 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5376 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5377
537836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5379
538037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5381 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5382 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5383 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5384 aborted.
5385
538638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5387 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5388 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5389
539039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5391
539240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5393 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5394
539541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5396 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5397
539842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5399 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5400 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5401 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5402 when emails are that large.
5403
5404
5405
5406Exim version 4.22
5407-----------------
5408
5409 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5410 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5411
5412 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5413 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5414 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5415
5416 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5417 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5418 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5419
5420 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5421 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5422 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5423 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5424 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5425
5426 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5427 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5428 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5429 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5430 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5431 ever.
5432
5433 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5434 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5435 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5436 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5437 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5438 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5439 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5440 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5441 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5442 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5443 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5444 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5445 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5446 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5447
5448 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5449 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5450 parameterised it.
5451
5452 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5453 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5454 error should be diagnosed.
5455
5456 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5457 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5458 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5459 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5460 appeared instead of "NULL".
5461
546210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5463 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5464 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5465 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5466 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5467 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5468 proceeds).
5469
5470 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5471 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5472 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5473
5474
5475Exim version 4.21
5476-----------------
5477
5478 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5479 or receiver verification errors.
5480
5481 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5482 name.
5483
5484 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5485 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5486 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5487 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5488
5489 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5490 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5491 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5492 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5493 shouldn't happen again.
5494
5495 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5496 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5497 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5498
5499 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5500 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5501
5502 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5503
5504 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5505 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5506
5507 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5508 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5509 RFC.
5510
551110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5512 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5513 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5514
551511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5516 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5517 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5518 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5519
552012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5521 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5522 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5523 to define what should happen).
5524
552513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5526 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5527 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5528
552914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5530
553115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5532
553316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5534 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5535
553617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5537 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5538 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5539 structure in all cases.
5540
5541 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5542 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5543 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5544 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5545
554618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5547 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5548 domain name.
5549
555019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5551 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5552
555320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5554 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5555
555621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5557 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5558 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5559
556022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5561 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5562 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5563
556423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5565 the book and for uniformity.
5566
556724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5568
556925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5570 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5571 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5572 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5573 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5574 non-existent command as the problem.
5575
557626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5577 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5578 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5579
558027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5581
558228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5583 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5584 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5585
558629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5587 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5588 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5589 timestamps using strftime().
5590
559130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5592 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5593
559432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5595 transport-time rewrites.
5596
559733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5598 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5599 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5600 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5601
560234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5603 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5604
560535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5606 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5607 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5608 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5609 comma and a space.
5610
561136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5612 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5613 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5614 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5615 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5616 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5617 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5618
561937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5620 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5621 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5622 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5623 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5624
562538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5626 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5627 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5628 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5629 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5630 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5631 remaining text gets split now.
5632
563339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5634 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5635 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5636 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5637
563840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5639 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5640 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5641 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5642 $return_path.
5643
564441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5645 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5646 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5647 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5648 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5649 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5650 passed through if needed.
5651
565242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5653 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5654 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5655 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5656 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5657 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5658
565943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5660 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5661 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5662 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5663 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5664
566544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5666 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5667 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5668 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5669 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5670
567145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5672 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5673 noticed.
5674
567546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5676 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5677 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5678 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5679 mayhem of various kinds.
5680
568147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5682 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5683 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5684 the right test for positive values.
5685
568648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5687 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5688 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5689 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5690 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5691 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5692 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5693 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5694 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5695 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5696 envelope.
5697
569849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5699 module.
5700
570150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5702 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5703 forbidding it.
5704
570551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5706 the existing equality matching.
5707
570852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5709 dealing with inode numbers.
5710
571153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5712 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5713 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5714
571554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5716 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5717 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5718 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5719 local_scan().
5720
572155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5722 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5723 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5724 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5725 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5726 relay addresses has also been removed.
5727
572856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5729
573057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5731 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5732 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5733
573458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5735 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5736 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5737 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5738 processing applies to CR:
5739
5740 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5741 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5742
5743 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5744 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5745 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5746 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5747
574859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5749 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5750 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5751
575260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5753 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5754 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5755 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5756 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5757 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5758 arisen.
5759
576061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5761 program routers.
5762
576362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5764 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5765 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5766 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5767 adds:
5768
5769 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5770
5771 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5772
5773 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5774
577563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5776 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5777 not considered personal.
5778
577964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5780
578165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5782
578366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5784
578567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5786 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5787 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5788 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5789 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5790 header lines, and spool format errors.
5791
579268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5793 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5794 for more flexibility.
5795
579669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5797 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5798 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5799
580070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5801 Sabourenkov.
5802
580371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5804 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5805 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5806 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5807 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5808 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5809 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5810 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5811 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5812
581372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5814 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5815 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5816 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5817 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5818 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5819 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5820
582173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5822 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5823 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5824
582574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5826 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5827 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5828 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5829 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5830 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5831 instead of killing the process with assert().
5832
583375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5834 than Unicode encoding.
5835
583676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5837 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5838 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5839 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5840
584177. Added process_log_path.
5842
584378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5844 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5845
584679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5847 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5848
584980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5850 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5851 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5852
585381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5854 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5855 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5856 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5857 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5858 were applied:
5859
5860 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5861 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5862 as invalid.
5863
586482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5865 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5866 they will be used during message reception.
5867
5868
5869Exim version 4.20
5870-----------------
5871
5872The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5873
5874****