Add tls_verify_hosts and tls_try_verify_hosts to smtp transport. Bug 1371
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
9
10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
28 were a direct connection from the outside internet.
29
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30JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
31
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32TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
33 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
34
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35PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
36 not dns_use_dnssec.
37
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38JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
39
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40TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
41 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
42 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
43
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44TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
45 results permerror and temperror. Is a backward incompatibility if
46 the ACL tests for either of these two results. Patch contributed by
47 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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49JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
50
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51JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
52 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
53
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54JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
55 failed delivery.
56
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57JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
58
e8793bad 59JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport. OpenSSL only.
214042d2 60
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64
65PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
66
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67PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
68 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
69
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70PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
71 by GnuTLS.
72
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73PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
74 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
75 routines.
76
13363eba 77PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 78
66645890 79PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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80 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
81 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
82 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
83 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 84
a3fb9793 85PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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86 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
87 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
88 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 89 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 90 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 91
d27f98fe 92TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 93
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94TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
95
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96TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
97 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
98
ae0e32ee 99TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 100 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 101 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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102
103TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 104
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105TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
106
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107TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
108 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
109
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110JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
111
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112JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
113
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114PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
115
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116NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
117 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 118
585121e2 119JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 120
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121PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
122 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
123 function.
a5f239e4 124
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125PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
126 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
127
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128JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
129 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
130 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 131
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132JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
133
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134JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
135
ea722490 136JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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137 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
138
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139JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
140 Bugzilla 884.
141
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142JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
143 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
144
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145JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
146 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
147
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148PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
149 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 150 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 151
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152JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
153 authenticators.
154
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155JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
156 for control.
157
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158PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
159
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160PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
161 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
162 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
163 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
164
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165TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
166
167 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
168 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
169 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
170 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
171 the retry rules.
172
173 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
174 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
175 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
176
177 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
178 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
179 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
180 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
181
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182 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
183 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
184 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
185 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
186 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
187 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
188 delivery, as in LMTP.
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190 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
191 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
192
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193TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
194
195 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
196
197 Resent-From: f
198
199 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
200 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
201 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
202 username as equal to the username.
203
204 This change corrects that bug.
205
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206GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
207 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
208 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
209
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210TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
211
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212PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
213 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
214 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
215 NULL dereference and crash.
216
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217JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
218
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219PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
220 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
221 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
222
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223SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
224
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225JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
226 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
227 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
228 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
229 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
230 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
231 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
232 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
233 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
234 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
235 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
236
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237PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
238 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
239
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240PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
241 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
242 Bugzilla 880.
243
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244PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
245 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
246 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
247 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
248 an empty string is now equivalent.
249
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250PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
251 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
252 not performing validation itself.
253
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254PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
255 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
256
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257JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
258 Bugzilla 321, 823.
259
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260TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
261
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262PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
263 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
264 other false fix of the same issue.
265 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
266 Bugzilla 1363.
267
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268PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
269 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
270
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271PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
272 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
273 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
274
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275PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
276 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
277 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
278
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279TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
280
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281JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
282
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283TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
284 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
285
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286TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
287 Alexander Miroch.
288
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289TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
290 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
291 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
292 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
293 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 294
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295TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
296 the src/util/ subdirectory.
297
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298TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
299 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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300 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
301
302TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
303 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
304 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
305 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
306
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307TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
308
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309TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
310 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
311 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 312
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313TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
314
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315TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
316 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
317 interaction.
318
319TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
320 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
321
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322TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
323 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
324
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328
329PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
330 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 331 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 332
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336
337PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
338 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
339 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
340
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341NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
342
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343NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
344 improved.
345
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346NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
347
c1e794ba 348PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 349
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350PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
351
352PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
353 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
354
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355PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
356 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
357
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358PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
359 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
360
f1e05cc7 361PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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362 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
363 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 364
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365PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
366
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367PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
368 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
369
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370PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
371
c45dd180 372PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 373
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374PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
375 non-compliant senders.
376 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
377
eae0036b 378NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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379 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
380 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
381
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382PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
383 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
384 in spool file corruption.
385
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386PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
387 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
388 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
389 "Got SSL error 2".
390
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391TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
392 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
393 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
394
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395JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
396 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
397
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398JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
399
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400PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
401 diagnostics.
402 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
403
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404PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
405 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
406 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
407
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408PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
409 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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410 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
411 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 412
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413PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
414 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
415
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416PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
417 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
418 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
419 resolver implementation change.
420
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421PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
422 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
423
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424PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
425
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426PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
427
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428PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
429 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
430
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431PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
432 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
433
9e45c72b 434JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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435 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
436
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437PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
438 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
439 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
440 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 441 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 442
53947857 443PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 444
eae0036b 445PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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446 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
447 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 448
9e45c72b 449JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 450
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451PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
452 read-only, out of scope).
453 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
454
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455PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
456 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
457 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
458 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
459
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460PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
461
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462PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
463 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
464 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
465 real issues in debug logging.
466
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467PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
468 assignment on my part. Fixed.
469
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470PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
471 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
472 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
473
474PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
475 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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476 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
477 problems.
3375e053 478
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479PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
480 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
481
57eb9e91 482PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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483 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
484 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
485 needs to override this, it can.
486
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487PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
488 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
489 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
490
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491PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
492 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
493 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
494 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
495
3ecab157 496PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 497
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501
502PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
503 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
504
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505TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
506
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507TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
508 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 509
0ca0cf52
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510TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
511 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
512
921b12ca
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513TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
514 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
515 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
516
517 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
518 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
519 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
520 not safe for signals.
521
522 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
523 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
524 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
525 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
526 exiwhat.
527
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528TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
529
530 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
531 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
532 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
533 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
534 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
535
536 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
537 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
538 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
539 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
540 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
541 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
542
543 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
544 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
545 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
546 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
547
548 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
549 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
550 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
551 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
552
553 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
554 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
555 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
556 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
557 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
558 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
559 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
560 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
561 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
562
563 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
564 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
565 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
566 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
567
568 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
569 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
570 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
571 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
572 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
573 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
574 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
575 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
576 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
577 details in the main documentation.
578
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579TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
580
792e8a19
TF
581TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
582
5901f0ab
TF
583TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
584 repository when doing development or release builds.
585
7f2a2a43
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586PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
587 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 588
061b7ebd
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589PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
590 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
591 Bugzilla 97.
592
e12f8c32
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593PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
594
9e949f00 595PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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596 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
597
598PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
599 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 600
555ae6af 601PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
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602 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
603
604PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
605 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 606
6f7fe114
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607PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
608 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
609
c566dd90
PP
610PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
611 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
612 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
613 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 614
d6cc7c78 615PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
616 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
617 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
618
0d0e4455
PP
619PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
620
3399bb60 621PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
622
623PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
624 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
625
0ca0cf52 626
10906672
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627Exim version 4.76
628-----------------
629
630PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
631
754a0503
PP
632PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
633 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
634
c0c7b2da
PP
635PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
636
e97d1f08
PP
637PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
638
084c1d8c
PP
639PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
640 Bugzilla 1098.
641
4e7ee012
PP
642PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
643 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 644
c8d52a00
PP
645TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
646 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
647
54e7ce4a
PP
648PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
649 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
650
5ee6f336
PP
651PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
652 Bugzilla 1104.
653
c8d52a00 654TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
655 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
656
657TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
658 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
659 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
660 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
661
662PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
663 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 664
10906672 665
aa097c4c
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666Exim version 4.75
667-----------------
668
4c9ef03a 669NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
670 Bugzilla 1073
671
7f3d9eff
TF
672TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
673 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
674 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
675
159f52d2
TF
676TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
677 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
678
0cc9542a
PP
679PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
680 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
681 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
682
f7274286
PP
683PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
684 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
685
7b797365
PP
686PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
687 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
688
caacae52
NM
689NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
690 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
691
09dcaba9
NM
692NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
693 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
694
bc19a55b
PP
695PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
696 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 697
bd4c9759
NM
698NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
699 Fixes bug 943.
700
b72aab72
PP
701PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
702 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
703
2fe76745
PP
704PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
705 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
706
76aa570c
PP
707PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
708 SQL string expansion failure details.
709 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
710
f1e5fef5
PP
711PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
712 Patch from Simon Arlott.
713
4d805ee9
PP
714PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
715 extern declarations in function scope.
716 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
717
cd59ab18
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718PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
719 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
720 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
721 a kernel bug).
722
332f5cf3
PP
723PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
724 Patch from Mark Zealey.
725
29cfeb94
PP
726PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
727 Patch from Mark Zealey.
728
660242ad
PP
729PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
730 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
731
bc4bc4c5
PP
732PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
733 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
734
2e64baa9
NM
735NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
736 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
737 Dennis Davis.
738
bddd7526
PP
739PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
740
6bac1a9a
PP
741PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
742
552193f0
NM
743NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
744 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 745
1b587e48
TF
746TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
747 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
748
aa097c4c 749
8c07b69f
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750Exim version 4.74
751-----------------
752
753TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
754 consequences so log it to the panic log.
755
c0ea85ab
TF
756TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
757 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
758
0761d44e
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759TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
760
0a349494
PP
761DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
762 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
763 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
764
765PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
766 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
767 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
768
fea24b2e
PP
769PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
770 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
771 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
772 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
773
6545de78
PP
774PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
775 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
776 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
777 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
778
1670ef10
PP
779PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
780 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
781 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
782 arbitrary files.
783
c0886197
PP
784PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
785 (Wolfgang Breyha)
786
b7487bce
PP
787PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
788 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
789 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
790 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
791 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
792
8c07b69f 793
97fd1e48 794Exim version 4.73
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97fd1e48
PP
796
797PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
798 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
799 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
800
6901c596
PP
801PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
802 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
803
a8c8d6b5
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804JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
805
77bb000f
PP
806PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
807
a29e5231
PP
808PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
809
ec5a0394 810PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 811
55c75993
PP
812PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
813
453a6645 814PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
815 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
816 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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817 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
818
8544e77a
PP
819PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
820 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
821 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
822 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
823 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 824
83e029d5
PP
825PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
826
ed7f7860
PP
827PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
828
7d9f747b
PP
829PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
830
4b2241d2
PP
831PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
832
10385c15
PP
833PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
834
dbc4b90d
PP
835PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
836
532be449
PP
837PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
838
6a8de854 839PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
840 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
841 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 842
5dc43717
JJ
843JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
844
845JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
846 "exim" to be used
55c75993 847
3346ab01
PP
848PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
849 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
850
491fab4c
PP
851PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
852 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
853 Notification from John Horne.
854
13eb9497
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855PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
856 compatible.
857
858PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
859 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
860 it normally works.
861
7f36d675
DW
862DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
863 access.
864
c1d94452
DW
865DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
866 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
867 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
868
e2f5dc15
DW
869DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
870 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
871 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
872 configuration file.
873
cd25e41d
DW
874DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
875 option (effectively making it always true).
876
261dc43e
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877DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
878 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
879
fa32850b
DW
880DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
881 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
882
79d4bc3d
PP
883PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
884 run-time user, instead of root.
885
43236f35 886PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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887 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
888
fb08281f
DW
889DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
890 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
891 arguments.
3346ab01 892
74935b98
DW
893DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
894 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
895 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
896
90b6341f
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897DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
898
57730b52
ML
899NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
900
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902Exim version 4.72
903-----------------
904
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905JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
906 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
907 typos
465e92cf 908
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909JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
910 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
911 (Finput)
edae0343 912
9bd3e22c
NM
913NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
914 Patch from Alain Williams
915
bb576ff7
NM
916NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
917
5a1a5845
NM
918NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
919 Patch from Andreas Metzler
920
981a9fad
NM
921NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
922 Patch from Kirill Miazine
923
7fc497ee
NM
924NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
925
1a41defa
JJ
926JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
927
a466095c 928NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 929 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 930
94a6bd0b
NM
931TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
932
933TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
934
935MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
936 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
937 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
938
c1b141a8
NM
939NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
940 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 941
b26eacf1 942NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
943 Patch by Simon Arlott
944
179c5980 945PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 946 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 947
9bd3e22c 948
7c6d71af
NM
949Exim version 4.71
950-----------------
951
7d9f747b 952TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 953
f013fb92
NM
954NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
955
0eb8eedd
NM
956NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
957
663ee6d9
NM
958NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
959
177ebd9b
NM
960NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
961
7c6d71af 962
210f147e
NM
963Exim version 4.70
964-----------------
965
cdd3bb85 966TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 967 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
968
969TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
970 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 971 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
972
973TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
974 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 975 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
976
977TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
978 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
979
210f147e
NM
980NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
981 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
982 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
983 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
984
deafd5b3
NM
985NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
986 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 987 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 988
089793a4
TF
989TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
990
5f16ca82
TF
991TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
992
dae9d94e 993NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 994 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 995
7d9f747b 996NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 997
06864c44
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998TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
999 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1000 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1001 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1002
65a7d8c3 1003NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1004 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1005
23510047 1006TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1007
7d9f747b 1008NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1009
7d8eec3a 1010NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1011 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1012
89dec7b6
TF
1013TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1014 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1015
a99de90c
TF
1016TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1017 that they are available at delivery time.
1018
e2803e40
TF
1019TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1020
7199e1ee
TF
1021TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1022 incoming_port log selectors.
1023
e276e04b
TF
1024TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1025 setting expands to an empty string.
1026
ce552449 1027NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1028 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1029
e765a0f1 1030NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1031 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1032
4f054c63 1033NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1034 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1035
7d9f747b
PP
1036NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1037 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1038
7d9f747b
PP
1039NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1040 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1041
b52bc06e 1042NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1043 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1044
447de4b0
NM
1045NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1046
4c69d561 1047NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1048 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1049
d5c39246 1050NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1051 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1052
0b23848a
TK
1053TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1054
8f3414a1 1055NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1056 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1057
fb6f955d
NM
1058NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1059
1060NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1061
7d9f747b
PP
1062NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1063 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1064
7d9f747b
PP
1065NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1066 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1067
7d9f747b
PP
1068NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1069 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1070
7d9f747b
PP
1071NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1072 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1073
7d9f747b
PP
1074NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1075 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1076
7d9f747b
PP
1077NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1078 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1079
7d9f747b
PP
1080NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1081 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1082
7d9f747b 1083NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1084 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1085
7d9f747b 1086NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1087
7d9f747b
PP
1088NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1089 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1090
7d9f747b 1091NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1092
7d9f747b 1093NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1094
7d9f747b 1095NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1096
7d9f747b 1097NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1098
17792b53 1099NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1100 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1101
7d9f747b
PP
1102NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1103 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1104
91576cec 1105NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1106 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1107
7d9f747b
PP
1108NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1109 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1110
7d9f747b 1111NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1112
7d9f747b 1113NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1114
7d9f747b 1115NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1116
7d9f747b 1117NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1118
deafd5b3 1119
47db1125
NM
1120Exim version 4.69
1121-----------------
1122
4b3504d0
TK
1123TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1124 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1125 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1126
1127 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1128 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1129 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1130 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1131 build errors in sieve.c.
1132
81ea09ca
NM
1133NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1134 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1135 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1136
f13cddcb
SC
1137SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1138
7d9f747b 1139NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1140
7d9f747b 1141NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1142
7d9f747b 1143NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1144
1145
eb4c0de6
PH
1146Exim version 4.68
1147-----------------
1148
1149PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1150
6a3bceb1
PH
1151PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1152 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1153 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1154 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1155 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1156 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1157 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1158 for iplsearch lookups.
1159
1160 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1161 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1162 previously such lookups could never work.
1163
1164 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1165 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1166 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1167
2e30fa9d
TK
1168TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1169 version.
1170
0806a9c5
MH
1171MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1172 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1173 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1174 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1175 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1176 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1177
ae276964
TK
1178TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1179 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1180
0f2cbd1b
MH
1181MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1182 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1183 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1184 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1185 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1186 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1187
2b85bce7
PH
1188PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1189 local_scan API.
1190
93655c46
PH
1191PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1192
6c512171
PH
1193PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1194 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1195 encrypted.
1196
1197PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1198 by clients under certain conditions.
1199
aa6dc513
PH
1200PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1201 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1202
a96603a0
PH
1203PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1204
8f240103
PH
1205PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1206 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1207
1208PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1209
d677b2f2
PH
1210PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1211
d52120f2
PH
1212PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1213
64f2600a
PH
1214PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1215 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1216
8669f003
PH
1217PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1218
a4dc33a8
PH
1219PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1220 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1221
d6a60c0f
PH
1222PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1223
8f128379
PH
1224PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1225
8932dffe
PH
1226PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1227 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1228 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1229 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1230
ddea74fa 1231PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1232 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1233 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1234
ddea74fa 1235PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1236 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1237
ddea74fa
PH
1238PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1239
ce9f225c
PH
1240PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1241
19897d52
PH
1242PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1243
bc64a74d
PH
1244PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1245 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1246 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1247
eb4c0de6 1248
b4ed4da0
PH
1249Exim version 4.67
1250-----------------
1251
22ad45c9
MH
1252MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1253 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1254 Jan Srzednicki.
1255
b4ed4da0
PH
1256PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1257 issue a MAIL command.
1258
431b7361
PH
1259PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1260
1261 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1262
1263 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1264 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1265 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1266 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1267 item. This has been fixed.
1268
1269PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1270 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1271
83da1223
PH
1272PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1273 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1274
54fc8428
PH
1275PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1276 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1277 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1278
34c5e8dd
SC
1279SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1280
bbe15da8
PH
1281PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1282 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1283 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1284 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1285 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1286
0e8a9471
MH
1287MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1288 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1289 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1290
f0872424
PH
1291PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1292 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1293 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1294 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1295
b01dd148
PH
1296PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1297
6bf342e1
PH
1298PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1299
273f34d0
PH
1300PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1301 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1302 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1303 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1304 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1305
cf8b11a5
PH
1306PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1307
41c7c167
PH
1308PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1309 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1310 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1311 values).
1312
9c57cbc0
PH
1313PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1314
f3f065bb
PH
1315PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1316
047bdd8c
PH
1317PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1318
0ce9abe6
PH
1319PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1320
0e22dfd1
PH
1321PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1322
4c590bd1
PH
1323PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1324 no_callout_flush is set.
1325
09945f1e
PH
1326PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1327 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1328 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1329 fixed.
1330
c51b8e75
PH
1331PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1332
e28326d8
PH
1333PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1334 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1335 other ACL rejections are.
1336
75b1493f
PH
1337PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1338 with slight modification.
1339
7c5214ec
PH
1340PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1341 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1342
4311097e
PH
1343PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1344 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1345 connection.
1346
29f89cad
PH
1347PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1348 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1349
5e687460
SC
1350SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1351
c3611384
PH
1352PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1353 expansion side effects.
1354
5a11a7b4
PH
1355PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1356 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1357 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1358 be the same.
1359
0e20aff9
MH
1360MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1361 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1362 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1363
ca86f471
PH
1364PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1365 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1366 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1367 were accidentally chopped off.
1368
a14e5636
PH
1369PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1370 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1371 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1372 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1373 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1374 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1375 pipelining has not been advertised.
1376
ec95d1a6
PH
1377PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1378
42855d71
PH
1379PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1380 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1381 This has been fixed.
1382
57c2c631
PH
1383PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1384 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1385 reported on Solaris.
1386
58c01c94
PH
1387PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1388 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1389 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1390 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1391 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1392 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1393 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1394
dee5a20a
PH
1395PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1396 cpus.
1397
d2ee6114
PH
1398PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1399
b2d5182b
PH
1400PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1401
79749a79
PH
1402PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1403 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1404 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1405 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1406 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1407 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1408
c456d9bb
PH
1409PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1410 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1411 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1412 host_all_ignored option.
1413
cd9868ec
PH
1414PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1415 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1416 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1417 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1418 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1419 is what is supposed to happen).
1420
ebeaf996
PH
1421PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1422 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1423 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1424 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1425 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1426 uses the Exim user.
1427
2679d413
PH
1428PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1429 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1430 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1431 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1432 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1433 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1434 users.
1435
84024b72
PH
1436PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1437
8005d38e
SC
1438SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1439 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1440 (Jez Hancock).
1441 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1442 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1443
3298c6c6
SC
1444SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1445
a43a27c5
PH
1446PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1447
58eb016e 1448PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1449 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1450 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1451 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1452 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1453 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1454 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1455 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1456 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1457 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1458 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1459
b43a74ea
PH
1460PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1461 advertised in response to EHLO.
1462
b4ed4da0 1463
5dd1517f
PH
1464Exim version 4.66
1465-----------------
1466
1467PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1468 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1469
1470 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1471 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1472
1473 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1474 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1475 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1476
1477 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1478 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1479 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1480 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1481 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1482
1483
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1484Exim version 4.65
1485-----------------
1486
1487TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1488 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1489 versions. (#438)
1490
d6066548
MH
1491MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1492 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1493 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1494
4362ff0d
PH
1495PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1496 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1497 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1498 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1499 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1500 rather than extend the field.
1501
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1506TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1507 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1508 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1509 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1510 these files.
1511
1512TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1513 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1514 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1515
1516TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1517 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1518 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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1519
1520TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1521 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1522 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1523 in the field name.
1524
2b1c6e3a
PH
1525PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1526 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1527 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1528 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1529 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1530 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1531 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1532 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1533 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1534 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1535 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1536
1f872c80
PH
1537PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1538 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1539
1540PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1541 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1542 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1543 ignores EPIPE as well.
1544
d203e649
PH
1545PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1546 (quoted-printable decoding).
1547
cc2ed8f7 1548PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1549 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1550
ddfcd446
PH
1551PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1552
d45b1de8
PH
1553PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1554
1555PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1556
38a0a95f 1557PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1558 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1559
a2405d83
JJ
1560JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1561 in 4.64-PH/09.
1562
1563JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1564 miscellaneous code fixes
1565
6ea85e9a
PH
1566PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1567 rejections.
1568
26da7e20
PH
1569PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1570 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1571 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1572 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1573 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1574 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1575 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1576 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1577
14aa5a05 1578PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1579 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1580 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1581 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1582 function.
1583 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1584 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1585 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1586 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1587 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1588 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1589 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1590 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1591 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1592
ff75a1f7
PH
1593PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1594 decoding.
1595
e6f6568e
PH
1596PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1597 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1598 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1599 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1600 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1601 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1602 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1603 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1604
d6f6e0dc
PH
1605PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1606 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1607 list.
1608
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1609PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1610 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1611 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1612 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1613 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1614 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1615 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1616 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1617 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1618 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1619 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1620 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1621 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1622
08955dd3
PH
1623PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1624 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1625 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1626 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1627 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1628 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1629 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1630
1eccaa59
PH
1631PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1632 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1633 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1634 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1635 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1636 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1637 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1638 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1639 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1640 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1641
602e59e5
PH
1642PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1643 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1644 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1645 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1646 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1647
411ef850
PH
1648PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1649 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1650 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1651 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1652 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1653 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1654 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1655
7befa435
PH
1656PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1657 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1658 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1659 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1660 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1661 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1662 been verified.
1663
48da4259 1664PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1665 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1666 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1667 and authorization.)
1668
48da4259
PH
1669PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1670 if any retry times were supplied.
1671
d1d5595c
PH
1672PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1673 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1674 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1675
0ef732d9
PH
1676PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1677
328895cc
PH
1678PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1679
fd700877
PH
1680PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1681 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1682 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1683 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1684 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1685 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1686
8dce1a6f
PH
1687PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1688 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1689
17af4a17
PH
1690PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1691 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1692 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1693
1694PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1695 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1696 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1697 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1698 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1699 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1700 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1701 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1702 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1703
1704 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1705 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1706 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1707 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1708 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1709 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1710 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1711 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1712 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1713
1714 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1715 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1716 hammering the server.
1717
c1114884
PH
1718PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1719 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1720
7a0743eb
PH
1721PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1722
0d85fa3f
PH
1723PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1724 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1725 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1726
1bf43b78
PH
1727PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1728 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1729 one case where this was not true.
1730
520de300
PH
1731PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1732 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1733 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1734 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1735 fails.
1736
48c7f9e2
PH
1737PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1738 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1739 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1740 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1741 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1742 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1743 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1744 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1745 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1746 smtp transport.
1747
99ea1c86
PH
1748PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1749 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1750 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1751 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1752
a2042e78
PH
1753PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1754 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1755
4fbcfc2e
PH
1756PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1757 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1758 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1759
aa41d2de
PH
1760PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1761
af561417
PH
1762PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1763
3cc66b45
PH
1764PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1765
194cc0e4
PH
1766PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1767 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1768 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1769 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1770
a401ddaa
PH
1771PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1772 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1773
4e88a19f
PH
1774PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1775 be meaningful with "accept".
1776
d7d7b289
SC
1777SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1778 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1779
1780SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1781 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1782 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1783
1784SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1785 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1786 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1787 there is data to show.
1788 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1789
1790SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1791 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1792 as well as the number of messages.
1793
1794SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1795 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1796 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1797
1798SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1799 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1800 have a flag are now skipped.
1801
1802SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1803 Added the -emptyok flag.
1804
1805SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1806 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1807
0ea2a468
JJ
1808JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1809 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1810 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1811
1812JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1813 match 4.64-PH/13
1814
1815JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1816 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1817
1818JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1819
1820JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1821 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1822
8a10f5a4
PH
1823PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1824
30e18802
PH
1825PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1826 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1827 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1828 contravention of the specifications.
1829
55728a4f
PH
1830PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1831 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1832 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1833
d7837193
PH
1834PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1835 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1836 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1837
87054a31
PH
1838PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1839
ea2c01d2
MH
1840MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1841 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1842 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1843 some point in the past.
1844
e4fa6968
PH
1845PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1846 transport during callout processing was broken.
1847
56f5d9bd
PH
1848PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1849 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1850
922e1c28
PH
1851PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1852 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1853
21eb6e72
PH
1854PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1855 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1856
a0540757
PH
1857PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1858
944e9e9c 1859
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SC
1860Exim version 4.63
1861-----------------
1862
1863SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1864 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1865
1866SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1867 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1868 there is data to show.
1869 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1870
1871SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1872 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1873
2b965a65
TF
1874TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1875 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1876
45b91596
PH
1877TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1878 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1879
c59f5781
TF
1880TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1881 submissions from trusted users.
1882
90fc3069
TF
1883TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1884 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1885
6083aca0
TF
1886TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1887 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1888 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1889 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1890 there is now a framework to start from.
1891
765b530f
PH
1892PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1893 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1894 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1895
4e167a8c
PH
1896PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1897
4608d683
PH
1898PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1899
b8dc3e4a
PH
1900PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1901
5418e93b
PH
1902PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1903 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1904 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1905
b4a9bda2
PH
1906PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1907 libradius.
1908
45b91596
PH
1909PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1910 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1911 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1912
5547e2c5
PH
1913PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1914 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1915 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1916 its arguments.
1917
dbcef0ea
PH
1918PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1919 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1920 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1921 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1922 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1923
25257489
PH
1924PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1925 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1926
c816d124
PH
1927PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1928
a9ccd69a
PH
1929PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1930 operations in malware.c.
1931
75fa1910
PH
1932PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1933 signatures.
1934
a7d7aa58
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1935PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1936 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1937 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1938 all.
1939
42119b09
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1940PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1941 statements to "add_header".
1942
41609df5
PH
1943PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1944 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1945
a5bd321b
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1946PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1947 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1948 latter.
1949
e85a7ad5 1950PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
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1951 so that it is now:
1952
e85a7ad5
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1953 ${if or { \
1954 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1955 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1956 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1957 }{no}{yes}}
1958
e85a7ad5
PH
1959 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1960 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1961
d8fe1c03
PH
1962PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1963 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1964
16282d2b
PH
1965PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1966 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1967 any possible encoding problems.
1968
35d40a98
PH
1969PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1970 but not after initializing Perl.
1971
034d99ab
PH
1972PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1973 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1974 apparently, which is not desirable.
1975
6ec97b1b
PH
1976PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1977 queries.
1978
e22ca4ac
JJ
1979JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1980 --not options
1981
1982JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1983
33d73e3b
PH
1984PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1985 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1986 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1987 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1988
9ecb03f3
PH
1989PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1990 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1991 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1992
084efe8d
PH
1993PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1994 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1995 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1996 0.12.
1997
366fc9f0
PH
1998PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1999 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2000 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2001 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2002 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2003
c59f5781 2004
c887c79e
TF
2005Exim version 4.62
2006-----------------
2007
2008TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2009 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2010
1cce3af8
PH
2011PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2012 patch).
2013
afb3eaaf
PH
2014PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2015 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2016 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2017 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2018 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2019 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2020 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2021 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2022 451 error is used.
2023
e173618b
PH
2024PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2025
dd16e114
PH
2026PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2027 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2028 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2029
f7fd3850
PH
2030PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2031 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2032 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2033 odd errors.
2034
d87df92c
PH
2035PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2036 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2037
7e9f683d
PH
2038PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2039 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2040 option (which defaults to 0600).
2041
bfad5236
PH
2042PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2043
01c490df
PH
2044PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2045 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2046 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2047 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2048 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2049 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2050 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2051
d6629cdc
PH
2052PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2053
1cce3af8 2054
214e2000
PH
2055Exim version 4.61
2056-----------------
2057
2058PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2059 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2060 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2061 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2062 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2063 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2064 addresses as local.
2065
f9daeae0
PH
2066PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2067 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2068
7e66e54d
PH
2069PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2070
c8ea1597
PH
2071PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2072 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2073 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2074 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2075 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2076 grumble.
2077
911f6fde
PH
2078PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2079 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2080
47ca6d6c
PH
2081PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2082 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2083 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2084 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2085 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2086
ed0e9820
PH
2087PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2088 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2089 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2090 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2091
eff37e47
PH
2092PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2093 be the same on different OS.
2094
1921d2ea
PH
2095PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2096 testing.
2097
b3f69ca8
JJ
2098JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2099 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2100
2101JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2102 in 4.61-PH/06
2103
424a1c63
PH
2104PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2105 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2106 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2107 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2108 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2109 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2110 bounce message.
2111
7a100415
PH
2112PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2113 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2114 when Exim was called.
2115
19b9dc85
PH
2116PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2117 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2118
309bd837
PH
2119PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2120 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2121 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2122 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2123
59e82a2a
PH
2124PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2125 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2126 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2127 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2128 changes:
2129
2130 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2131 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2132 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2133
2134 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2135 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2136 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2137
9edc04ce
PH
2138PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2139 feature).
2140
1349e1e5
PH
2141PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2142 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2143 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2144 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2145 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2146 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2147 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2148 values from the SRV records were lost.
2149
ea49d0e1
PH
2150PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2151 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2152 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2153
064a94c9
PH
2154PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2155 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2156 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2157
727071f8
PH
2158PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2159 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2160 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2161 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2162 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2163 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2164 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2165 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2166 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2167 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2168
f78eb7c6
PH
2169PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2170 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2171 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2172
21c28500
PH
2173PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2174 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2175
2176PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2177 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2178 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2179 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2180 is given.
2181
1688f43b
PH
2182PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2183 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2184 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2185
2186PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2187 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2188 PH/23 above applies.
2189
9675b384
PH
2190PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2191 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2192 (for which there is an explicit test).
2193
6a3f1455
PH
2194PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2195
dac79d3e
PH
2196PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2197 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2198 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2199 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2200 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2201
5977a0b3
PH
2202PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2203 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2204 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2205 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2206
c91535f3
PH
2207PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2208 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2209 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2210
0d46a8c8
PH
2211PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2212
278c6e6c
PH
2213PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2214
2cbb4081
PH
2215PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2216 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2217 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2218
3eef829e
PH
2219PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2220 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2221 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2222 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2223 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2224
1ab95fa6
PH
2225PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2226 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2227 the message gets confusing).
2228
230205fc
PH
2229PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2230 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2231 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2232 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2233
75e0e026
PH
2234PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2235 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2236 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2237 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2238 same order.
2239
2240PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2241 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2242 the different processes.
2243
145396a6
PH
2244PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2245
3cd34f13
PH
2246PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2247
11121d3d
JJ
2248JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2249 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2250
2251JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2252 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2253
2254JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2255 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2256 messages matching specified criteria.
2257
8def5aaf
PH
2258PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2259
929ba01c
PH
2260PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2261 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2262
2632889e
PH
2263PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2264 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2265 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2266 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2267 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2268 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2269 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2270 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2271 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2272 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2273
944a9c55
PH
2274PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2275 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2276 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2277
4a23603b
PH
2278PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2279
4730f942
PH
2280PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2281 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2282 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2283 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2284 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2285 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2286 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2287 the variable.
2288
30dba1e6
PH
2289PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2290 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2291
382afc6b
PH
2292PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2293
a86229cf
PH
2294PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2295
50c99ba6
PH
2296PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2297
d35e429d
PH
2298PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2299 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2300 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2301 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2302 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2303 size of the count of files.
2304
f90d018c
PH
2305PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2306
75def545
PH
2307PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2308 used in LMTP mode:
2309
2310 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2311 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2312 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2313 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2314
2315 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2316 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2317 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2318
2319PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2320 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2321 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2322 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2323 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2324
c46782ef
PH
2325PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2326 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2327
71fafd95
PH
2328PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2329 will now be deprecated.
2330
2c5db4fd
PH
2331PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2332
9cf6b11a
JJ
2333JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2334 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2335 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2336
2337JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2338 with very large, slow to parse queues
2339
2340JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2341
2342JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2343
898d150f
PH
2344PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2345 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2346 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2347 SMTP output lines.
2348
46218253
PH
2349PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2350 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2351 Sieve code now uses this.
2352
e97957bc
PH
2353PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2354 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2355
81e509d7
PH
2356PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2357 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2358
3d240ff7
PH
2359PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2360
b37c4101
PH
2361PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2362 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2363 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2364 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2365 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2366
79378e0f
PH
2367PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2368 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2369 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2370 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2371
e49c7bb4
PH
2372PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2373
d114ec46
PH
2374PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2375
f3d7df6c
PH
2376PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2377 is preferred over IPv4.
2378
715ab376
PH
2379PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2380 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2381 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2382 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2383 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2384 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2385 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2386
6b31b150
PH
2387PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2388 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2389 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2390
2391PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2392
d515a917
PH
2393PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2394 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2395 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2396 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2397 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2398 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2399 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2400 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2401 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2402 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2403 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2404
9b8fadde
PH
2405PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2406 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2407 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2408
214e2000 2409
5de37277
PH
2410Exim version 4.60
2411-----------------
2412
cc38ddbf
PH
2413PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2414
2415 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2416 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2417
2418 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2419 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2420 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2421
72fdd6ae
PH
2422PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2423
2424 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2425 not a single digit.
2426
2427 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2428 string.
2429
2430 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2431 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2432 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2433 silly things.
2434
2435 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2436 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2437
2438 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2439 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2440
cb741023
PH
2441PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2442 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2443 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2444
f174f16e
PH
2445PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2446 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2447
c25242d7
PH
2448PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2449 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2450
2451 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2452
2453 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2454 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2455 this:
2456
2457 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2458
82c19f95
PH
2459PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2460 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2461 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2462 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2463 identical. For example:
2464
2465 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2466
2467 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2468 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2469 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2470
d7ffbc12
PH
2471PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2472 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2473 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2474 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2475
9f526266
PH
2476PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2477 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2478 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2479 message.
2480
87fcc8b9
PH
2481PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2482
2483 o fixes some comments
2484 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2485 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2486 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2487 and documents the missing references header update
2488
2489 and most important:
2490
2491 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2492 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2493 result)
2494
456682f5
PH
2495PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2496 Electronic Mail") by including:
2497
2498 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2499
2500 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2501 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2502 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2503 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2504 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2505
2506 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2507
2508 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2509
2510 The auto-replied keyword:
2511
2512 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2513 message by an automatic process,
2514
2515 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2516
2517 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2518 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2519
2520 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2521 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2522 other messages.
2523
3e46c1aa
PH
2524PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2525 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2526
49826d12
PH
2527PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2528
eba0c039
PH
2529PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2530 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2531 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2532
a0d6ba8a
PH
2533PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2534 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2535 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2536
f0917727
PH
2537PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2538 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2539 and treats the condition as false.
2540
096fee00
PH
2541PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2542
024bd3c2
PH
2543PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2544 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2545 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2546 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2547 not changing the active code.
2548
2549 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2550 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2551
2552 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2553 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2554
df199fec
PH
2555PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2556 (Bugzilla #53).
2557
d27f1df3
PH
2558PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2559 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2560 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2561 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2562 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2563 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2564 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2565 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2566 the text comparison.
2567
96776534
PH
2568PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2569 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2570 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2571 The same fix has been applied.
2572
5de37277 2573
9a799bc0
PH
2574Exim version 4.54
2575-----------------
2576
2577PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2578 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2579 It now does.
2580
99a4b039
PH
2581PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2582 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2583
2584PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2585
4b233853
PH
2586PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2587 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2588 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2589 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2590 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2591
8857ccfd
PH
2592TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2593 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2594 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2595 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2596 or /domain=).
2597
433a2980
PH
2598PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2599 testing suite.
2600
3e46c1aa 2601
9a799bc0 2602
e3a311ba
TK
2603Exim version 4.53
2604-----------------
2605
2606TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2607 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2608
13b685f9
PH
2609PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2610
395ff96d
PH
2611PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2612
5b68f6e4
PH
2613PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2614 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2615 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2616
1ab52c69
PH
2617PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2618 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2619 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2620
b07e6aa3
PH
2621PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2622 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2623 operating systems.
2624
254e032f
PH
2625PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2626 ${stat: expansion item.
2627
3af76a81
PH
2628PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2629 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2630
2548ba04
PH
2631PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2632 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2633 file for comments.
2634
b6c6011d
PH
2635PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2636
cf39cf57
PH
2637PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2638 setting.
2639
f1513293
PH
2640PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2641 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2642
727549a4
PH
2643TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2644
af46795e
PH
2645PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2646 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2647 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2648 the end of the subprocess.
2649
d7b47fd0
PH
2650PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2651 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2652 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2653 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2654 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2655
ee744174
JJ
2656JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2657
b582ab87
PH
2658TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2659
41a13e0a
PH
2660PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2661 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2662
f625cc5a
PH
2663PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2664
2665PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2666
21f7af35
PH
2667PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2668 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2669 HP-UX compiler.
2670
31480e42
PH
2671PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2672
2d280592
PH
2673PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2674 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2675 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2676
7cd1141b
PH
2677PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2678 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2679
2680PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2681 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2682
750af86e
PH
2683PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2684 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2685
2686 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2687 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2688
2689 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2690 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2691 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2692 contributed by a Radius user.
2693
2694PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2695 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2696
4304270b
TK
2697TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2698 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2699
750af86e
PH
2700PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2701 available.
2702
64ffc24f
PH
2703PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2704 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2705 received.
2706
5dd9625b
PH
2707PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2708 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2709 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2710 header lines when this was not necessary.
2711
5591031b
PH
2712PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2713
ba18e66a
PH
2714PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2715 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2716 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2717 exists".
2718
9cec981f
PH
2719PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2720 -bV or -d is used.
2721
aa2b5c79
PH
2722PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2723 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2724 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2725 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2726
48a53b7f
PH
2727PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2728
1c59d63b
PH
2729PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2730
671012da
TK
2731TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2732
1509d3a8
PH
2733PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2734
2735PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2736 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2737 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2738 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2739 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2740 settings.
2741
2742PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2743
2fe1a124
PH
2744PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2745 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2746 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2747 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2748 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2749 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2750 which is clearly wrong.
2751
8800895a
PH
2752PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2753
ccfdb010
PH
2754PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2755 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2756 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2757 subsequently added.
2758
1130bfb0
PH
2759PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2760 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2761
ebcb507f
PH
2762PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2763
c35e155c
PH
2764PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2765 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2766
95d1f782
PH
2767PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2768 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2769
fd6de02e
PH
2770PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2771 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2772
58de37c5
PH
2773PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2774 recipients, not senders.
2775
261cf466
TF
2776TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2777 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2778
3ee512ff
PH
2779PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2780
e08c430f
PH
2781PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2782
bef5a11f
PH
2783PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2784 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2785 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2786 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2787
7546de58
TF
2788TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2789
e5d5a95f
TF
2790TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2791 clock is set back in time.
2792
2e88a017
TF
2793TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2794 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2795
a5f65aa4
TF
2796TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2797 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2798
e7726cbf
PH
2799PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2800 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2801 (see PH/47 above).
2802
a7fdad5b
TF
2803TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2804 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2805 header rewrites.
2806
6af56900
PH
2807PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2808 type ("H").
2809
0925ede6
PH
2810PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2811
66afa403
TF
2812TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2813 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2814 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2815
0154e85a
TF
2816TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2817 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2818 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2819 helo verification defer as a failure.
2820
16f12c76
PH
2821PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2822 actual error message.
2823
bbe902f0 2824
e5a9dba6
PH
2825Exim version 4.52
2826-----------------
2827
2828TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2829
22c3b60b
PH
2830PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2831 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2832 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2833 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2834
06a9b4b5
PH
2835TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2836
c1ac6996
PH
2837PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2838 can still be requested.
2839
9c7a242c
PH
2840PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2841 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2842 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2843 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2844
87ba3f5f
PH
2845TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2846 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2847 circumstances, but probably never did.
2848
2849PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2850 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2851 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2852 in the header line.
2853
29aba418
TF
2854TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2855
fe0dab11
TF
2856TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2857 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2858
11d337a4
TK
2859TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2860
2861TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2862
415c8f3b
PH
2863PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2864 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2865 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2866 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2867 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2868 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2869
958541e9
PH
2870PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2871 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2872 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2873 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2874 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2875 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2876
c206415f
TK
2877TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2878 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2879
2a4be8f9
PH
2880PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2881 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2882
1cba11c5
SC
2883SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2884 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2885
2886SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2887
2888SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2889
2890SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2891
2892SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2893
2894SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2895
2896SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2897
1005d00e
TK
2898TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2899
2900TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2901 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2902 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2903
2904TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2905 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2906 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2907 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2908
9b4768fa
PH
2909PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2910 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2911 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2912
2913PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2914 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2915 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2916 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2917
0d7eb84a
PH
2918PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2919 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2920 to be made).
2921
2922PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2923 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2924 should work with maildirs and everything.
2925
40727bee
TK
2926TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2927 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2928
554d2369
TF
2929TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2930 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2931
1f922db1
PH
2932PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2933 function for BDB 4.3.
2934
ef213c3b
PH
2935PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2936
8ac170f3
PH
2937PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2938 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2939 involved.
2940
b1c749bb
PH
2941PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2942 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2943 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2944 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2945 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2946 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2947
4aac9b49
PH
2948PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2949 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2950 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2951 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2952 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2953 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2954 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2955 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2956
294520c8
TK
2957TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2958 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2959 details.
2960
5bd022fe
PH
2961PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2962 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2963
90e9ce59
PH
2964PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2965 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2966 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2967 test. It is now used for both.
2968
5ea81592
PH
2969PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2970 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2971 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2972 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2973 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2974 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2975
c6c2dc1d
PH
2976PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2977 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2978 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2979 string_vformat().
2980
fffffe4c
PH
2981PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2982 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2983 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2984
9a26b6b2
PH
2985PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2986 experimental DomainKeys support:
2987
2988 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2989 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2990 the control was given.
2991
2992 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2993
4aee0225
PH
2994PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2995
32d668a5
PH
2996PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2997
8187c3f3
PH
2998PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2999 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3000 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3001 db.h files).
3002
ff790e47 3003PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3004 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3005 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3006 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3007 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3008 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3009 course.
ff790e47 3010
5417f6d1
PH
3011PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3012 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3013 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3014 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3015 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3016 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3017
59cf8544
PH
3018PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3019 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3020 do -d+all out of habit.
3021
e7ad8a65
PH
3022PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3023 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3024 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3025
ade42478
PH
3026PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3027 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3028 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3029 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3030 record types that Exim uses.
3031
182ad5cf
PH
3032PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3033 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3034 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3035 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3036 non-existent file that was broken.
3037
b0d9fc80
TK
3038TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3039 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3040
3041TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3042 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3043 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3044
3045TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3046
47c7a64a
PH
3047PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3048 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3049 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3050 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3051 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3052 same time.
3053
a388bce4
SC
3054SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3055 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3056 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3057 at a slight CPU cost.
3058
3059SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3060 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3061
3062SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3063 by Marc Sherman.
3064
0793e4ed
SC
3065SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3066
c58b88df
PH
3067PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3068 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3069
e7ad8a65 3070
7982096b
PH
3071Exim version 4.51
3072-----------------
3073
1a46a8c5
PH
3074TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3075 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3076
2f079f46 3077TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3078
3079TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3080
3081PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3082 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3083
3084PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3085 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3086 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3087 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3088 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3089 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3090 file.
3091
3092PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3093 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3094 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3095 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3096 these two options.
3097
3098PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3099 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3100 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3101 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3102 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3103 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3104 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3105 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3106
3107PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3108 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3109
3110PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3111 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3112 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3113 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3114 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3115 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3116
3117PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3118 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3119 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3120 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3121
3122PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3123 Finch).
3124
3125PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3126 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3127
49c2d5ea
PH
3128PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3129 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3130 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3131 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3132 message.
49c2d5ea 3133
bf759a8b
PH
3134PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3135
83364d30
PH
3136PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3137 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3138
7999bbd7
PH
3139PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3140 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3141 to what was transported.)
3142
7dbf77c9
PH
3143TF/01 Added $received_time.
3144
74e0617f
PH
3145PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3146 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3147 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3148 spamd_address settings.
3149
2f079f46
PH
3150PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3151 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3152 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3153 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3154 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3155
8c841523
PH
3156PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3157
7766a4f0
PH
3158PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3159 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3160 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3161 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3162 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3163
8b417f2c
PH
3164PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3165 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3166
901f42cb
PH
3167PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3168 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3169 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3170 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3171 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3172 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3173 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3174 for failure.
3175
f9b9210e
PH
3176PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3177 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3178 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3179 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3180 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3181 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3182 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3183 "input=".
3184
54cdb463
PH
3185PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3186
cf00dad6
PH
3187PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3188 driver and ACL definitions.
3189
acb1b346
PH
3190PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3191 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3192
c5ddb310
PH
3193PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3194 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3195 understands it better than I do:
3196
3197 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3198 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3199
3200 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3201 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3202 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3203 => three warnings about OTP not working
3204 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3205
3206 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3207 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3208 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3209 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3210 for each call.)
3211 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3212 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3213
3214 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3215 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3216 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3217
31619da6
PH
3218PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3219 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3220 specified.
3221
bebaf0fc
PH
3222PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3223 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3224 "Linux".
3225
475fe28a
PH
3226PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3227 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3228 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3229
3230 warn !verify = sender
3231 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3232
3233 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3234 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3235
7e8bec7a
PH
3236PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3237
3238 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3239 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3240
3241 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3242 nomenclature these days.)
3243
e4a89c47
PH
3244PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3245 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3246
5ca2a9a1
PH
3247PH/30 In these circumstances:
3248 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3249 . First host does not offer TLS;
3250 . First host accepts first address;
3251 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3252 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3253 . Second host accepts second address.
3254 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3255 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3256 address.
7e8bec7a 3257
c688b954
PH
3258PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3259 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3260 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3261 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3262 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3263
fed77020
PH
3264PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3265 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3266
7fe1560f
PH
3267PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3268 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3269
ebb6e6d5
PH
3270PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3271 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3272 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3273
9c4e8f60
PH
3274PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3275 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3276 overlooked.
3277
3278PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3279
d7174846
PH
3280PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3281 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3282 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3283 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3284 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3285 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3286 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3287
3288 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3289 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3290 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3291 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3292 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3293
3294 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3295 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3296 routed further.
3297
cfe75fc3
PH
3298PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3299 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3300 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3301 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3302 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3303 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3304
be22d70e
PH
3305PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3306
0612b098
PH
3307PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3308 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3309 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3310 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3311 printable escape sequences.
3312
2e0c1448
PH
3313PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3314 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3315 body only.
3316
447d236c
PH
3317PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3318 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3319 are as follows:
3320
3321 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3322 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3323 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3324 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3325 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3326
3327 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3328 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3329 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3330
d20976dc
PH
3331PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3332
f656d135
PH
3333PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3334 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3335 play with."
3336
2e2a30b4
PH
3337PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3338 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3339 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3340 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3341 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3342 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3343 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3344 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3345 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3346 the log output.
3347
9176e9f0
PH
3348PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3349 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3350 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3351 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3352 "make".
3353
7982096b 3354
bbe902f0
PH
3355A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3356----------------------------------------
3357
3358Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3359changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3360needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3361in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3362that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3363release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3364from 4.43.
3365
3366I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
33674.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3368those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3369historical information.
3370
3371
f7b63901 3372Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3373-----------------
3374
5fe762f6
PH
3375 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3376
139059f6 3377 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3378 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3379
7086e875
PH
3380 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3381 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3382 place.
3383
35af9f61
PH
3384 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3385 filter fails to execute.
3386
b668c215
PH
3387 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3388 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3389 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3390 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3391 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3392
a494b1e1
PH
3393 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3394
3395 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3396 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3397 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3398 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3399
c5fcb476
PH
3400 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3401 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3402 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3403 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3404 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3405
69358f02
PH
3406 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3407
5be20824
PH
340810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3409
eb2c0248
PH
341011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3411 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3412 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3413 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3414
2a3eea10
PH
341512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3416 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3417 sender verification.
3418
341913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3420 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3421
23c7ff99
PH
342214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3423
4deaf07d
PH
342415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3425 connection timeout.
3426
926e1192
PH
342716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3428 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3429
650edc6f
PH
343017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3431 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3432
2c7db3f5
PH
343318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3434 information about exactly what failed.
3435
3d235903
PH
343619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3437
7c7ad977
PH
343820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3439 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3440 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3441
981756db
PH
344221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3443 It is now set to "smtps".
3444
d4eb88df
PH
344522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3446 ignore_target_hosts.
3447
344823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3449 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3450 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3451 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3452 "[x.x.x.x]".
3453
7d468ab8
PH
345424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3455 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3456 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3457
345825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3459 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3460 wake it up if nothing else does.
3461
62c0818f
PH
346226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3463 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3464 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3465 end up negative.
3466
26034054
PH
346727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3468 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3469
af66f652
PH
347028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3471
90af77f4
PH
347229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3473 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3474 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3475 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3476 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3477 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3478 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3479 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3480
d8ef3577
PH
348130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3482 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3483 than one IP address.
3484
5cb8cbc6
PH
348531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3486 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3487 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3488 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3489
14702f5b
PH
349032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3491 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3492 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3493 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3494 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3495 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3496
063b1e99
PH
349733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3498 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3499 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3500 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3501
652e1b65
PH
350234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3503 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3504 respected.
3505
6f0c9a4f
PH
350635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3507 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3508 $sender_host_address.
3509
33397d19
PH
351036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3511 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3512 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3513 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3514 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3515 very small.
3516
7bb56e1f
PH
351737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3518
3519 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3520 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3521
ea3bc19b
PH
3522 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3523 just the host names, not the priorities.
3524
3525 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3526 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3527 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3528
ea3bc19b 3529 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3530 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3531
0bcb2a0e
PH
353238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3533 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3534 domain.
3535
2ac0e484
PH
353639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3537
4e1fde53
PH
353840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3539 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3540
de365ded
PH
354141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3542 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3543 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3544
f05da2e8
PH
354542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3546
d6453af2
PH
354743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3548
f7b63901
PH
354944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3550
355145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3552 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3553 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3554 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3555 because the tests only now provoked it.
3556
a444213a
PH
355746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3558 (this can affect the format of dates).
3559
0ec020ea
PH
356047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3561 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3562 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3563 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3564
b1206957
PH
356548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3566
356749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3568 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3569 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3570 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3571
26dd5a95
PH
357250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3573 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3574 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3575
343b2385
PH
357651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3577 autoreply.
3578
1c5466b9
PH
357952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3580 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3581 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3582 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3583 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3584 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3585 is going on).
3586
55ee9ee3
PH
358753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3588 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3589 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3590 the line.
3591
d38f8232
PH
359254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3593 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3594 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3595
3596 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3597 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3598 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3599 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3600 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3601 so I produce this patch..."
3602
3295e65b
PH
3603 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3604 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3605 is not defined.
3606
7102e136
PH
360755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3608 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3609 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3610 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3611 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3612
3ca0ba97
PH
361356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3614
c2bcbe20
PH
361557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3616 long debug lines gets shown.
3617
18ce445d
PH
361858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3619 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3620
1f5b4c3d
PH
362159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3622
3623 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3624 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3625 of $primary_hostname.
3626
b975ba52
PH
362760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3628 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3629 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3630 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3631 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3632 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3633 by change 4.50/55 above.
3634
3635 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3636 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3637 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3638 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3639 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3640 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3641 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3642
364361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3644 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3645 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3646 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3647
17ffcae7
PH
364862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3649 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3650
d95f9fdb
PH
365163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3652 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3653 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3654 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3655 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3656
86b8287f
PH
365764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3658 This has been fixed.
3659
60dc5e56
PH
366065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3661 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3662 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3663 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3664 the caching.)
3665
533244af
PH
366666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3667
a5a28604
PH
366867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3669 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3670 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3671 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3672
7e634d24
PH
367368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3674 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3675
3e11c26b
PH
367669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3677 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3678 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3679
6729cf78
PH
368070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3681 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3682 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3683 message there.
3684
00f00ca5
PH
368571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3686 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3687 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3688
c9bdd01c
PH
368972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3690 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3691 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3692 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3693
d43194df
PH
369473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3695 during host lookups.
3696
fe5b5d0b
PH
369774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3698 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3699
3700 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3701
76a2d7ba
PH
370275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3703 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3704 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3705 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3706 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3707 background.
3708
370976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3710 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3711
04f7d5b9
PH
371277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3713 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3714 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3715
bc60667e
PH
371678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3717
bb6e88ff
PH
371879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3719 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3720 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3721 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3722 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3723 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3724 process earlier.
3725
1e70f85b
PH
372680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3727 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3728 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3729 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3730 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3731
373281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3733 tables).
3734
4e01f9d6
PH
373582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3736
1ee1cef2
PH
373783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3738 "vacation" handling.
3739
6e2b4ccc
PH
374084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3741 OS variants using glibc.
3742
8e669ac1
PH
374385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3744
495ae4b0 3745
bbe902f0
PH
3746----------------------------------------------------
3747See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3748----------------------------------------------------
3749
3750
3751Exim version 4.44
3752-----------------
3753
3754 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3755 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3756 transport
3757
3758 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3759 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3760 place.
3761
3762 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3763 filter fails to execute.
3764
3765 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3766 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3767 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3768 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3769 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3770
3771 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3772 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3773 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3774 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3775
3776 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3777 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3778 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3779 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3780 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3781
3782 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3783
3784 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3785 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3786 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3787 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3788
3789 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3790 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3791 sender verification.
3792
379310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3794 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3795
379611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3797 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3798
379912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3800 ignore_target_hosts.
3801
380213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3803 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3804 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3805 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3806 "[x.x.x.x]".
3807
380814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3809 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3810 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3811
381215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3813 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3814 wake it up if nothing else does.
3815
381616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3817 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3818 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3819 end up negative.
3820
382117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3822 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3823
ea3a6f44 382418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3825
382619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3827 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3828 empty pattern.
3829
383020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3831 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3832 one IP address.
3833
ea3a6f44
NM
383421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3835 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3836 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3837 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3838 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3839 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3840
ea3a6f44
NM
384122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3842 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3843 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3844
384523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3846 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3847 $sender_host_address.
3848
384924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3850
ea3a6f44
NM
385125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3852 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3853 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3854
385526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3856 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3857
ea3a6f44
NM
385827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3859 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3860
ea3a6f44
NM
386128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3862 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3863 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3864 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3865
386629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3867 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3868 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3869
ea3a6f44
NM
387030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3871 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3872 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3873 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3874
ea3a6f44
NM
387531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3876 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3877 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3878
ea3a6f44
NM
387931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3880 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3881
ea3a6f44
NM
388232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3883 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3884 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3885 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3886 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3887 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3888 is going on).
bbe902f0 3889
ea3a6f44
NM
389033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3891 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3892 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3893 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3894 CAN-2005-0021
3895
ea3a6f44
NM
389634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3897 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3898 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3899 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3900 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3901 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3902 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3903
3904 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3905 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3906 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3907 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3908 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3909 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3910 CAN-2005-0021
3911
ea3a6f44
NM
391235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3913 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3914 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3915 CAN-2005-0022
3916
ea3a6f44
NM
391736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3918 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3919 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3920 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3921 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3922
ea3a6f44
NM
392337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3924 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3925 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3926 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3927 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3928
ea3a6f44
NM
392938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3930 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3931 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3932 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3933 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3934
3935
495ae4b0
PH
3936Exim version 4.43
3937-----------------
3938
3939 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3940 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3941 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3942 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3943 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3944 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3945 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3946
3947 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3948 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3949 the delivery.
3950
3951 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3952
3953 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3954
3955 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3956 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3957 to local_scan().
3958
3959 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3960 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3961 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3962 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3963 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3964
3965 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3966 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3967
3968 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3969
3970 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3971
397210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3973 header_sender only.
3974
397511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3976 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3977
397812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3979 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3980 affecting debugging statements).
3981
398213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3983
398414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3985 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3986 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3987 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3988 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3989 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3990 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3991 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3992 after the received time, and all would be well.
3993
399415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3995 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3996 condition in an expansion string.
3997
399816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3999
400017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4001 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4002 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4003 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4004 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4005 job under whatever limits there are.
4006
400718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4008
400919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4010 space).
4011
401220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4013 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4014 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4015 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4016 return path is set.
4017
401821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4019 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4020 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4021 binary data in such strings.
4022
402322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4024
402523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4026 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4027 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4028 failure, which is pointless.
4029
403024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4031
403225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4033
403426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4035 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4036 Sender: header lines.
4037
403827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4039 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4040 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4041
404228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4043 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4044 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4045 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4046 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4047 happens.
4048
404929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4050 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4051 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4052 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4053 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4054
405530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4056 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4057 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4058 1024.
4059
406031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4061 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4062
406332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4064 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4065
406633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4067
406832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4069
407033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4071
407234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4073 syntax error.
4074
407535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4076
407736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4078
407937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4080 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4081 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4082 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4083
408438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4085 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4086
4087
4088Exim version 4.42
4089-----------------
4090
4091 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4092 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4093 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4094 it was not quoted.
4095 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4096 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4097 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4098 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4099 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4100 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4101
4102 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4103 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4104 verification failure".
4105
4106 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4107 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4108 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4109 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4110
4111 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4112 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4113 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4114 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4115 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4116 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4117 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4118 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4119 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4120 treated as a timeout.
4121
4122 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4123 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4124 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4125 not set for Exim filters).
4126
4127 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4128 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4129 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4130
4131 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4132
4133 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4134 try to make them clearer.
4135
4136 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4137 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4138
4139 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4140
4141 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4142
414310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4144 only the Cygwin environment.
4145
414611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4147 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4148 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4149 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4150 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4151
415212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4153 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4154 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4155 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4156 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4157 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4158 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4159
416013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4161 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4162
416314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4164
4165 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4166 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4167 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4168
4169 To: susanne@some.where
4170
4171 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4172 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4173 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4174 of addresses in From: header lines).
4175
4176 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4177 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4178 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4179
4180 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4181 treated as non-personal.
4182
4183 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4184 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4185
418615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4187
418816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4189
419017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4191 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4192 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4193
419418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4195 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4196
419719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4198 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4199 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4200 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4201 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4202 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4203
420420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4205 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4206 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4207 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4208 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4209 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4210 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4211 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4212
4213 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4214
421521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4216 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4217
421822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4219 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4220 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4221
422223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4223 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4224
422524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4226 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4227 rather than long int.
4228
422925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4230
423126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4232
4233
4234Exim version 4.41
4235-----------------
4236
4237 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4238 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4239 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4240 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4241 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4242 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4243
4244
4245Exim version 4.40
4246-----------------
4247
4248 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4249 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4250
4251 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4252 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4253 socklen_t is defined.
4254
4255 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4256 always exist.
4257
4258 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4259 configured.
4260
4261 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4262 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4263 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4264 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4265 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4266
4267 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4268 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4269 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4270 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4271
4272 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4273 of flapping under certain conditions.
4274
4275 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4276 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4277 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4278
4279 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4280
428110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4282
428311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4284 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4285 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4286 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4287
428812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4289 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4290 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4291 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4292 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4293 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4294 preserved with the message after it was received.
4295
429613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4297 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4298 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4299 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4300 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4301 test suite worked just fine.
4302
430314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4304 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4305 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4306
430715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4308 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4309 string.
4310
431116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4312 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4313 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4314 does not fully solve it.
4315
431617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4317 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4318 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4319 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4320 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4321
432218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4323 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4324 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4325
432619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4327 string, for example:
4328
4329 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4330
4331 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4332 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4333 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4334 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4335 the routers could not see them.
4336
433720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4338 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4339
434021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4341 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4342 output).
4343
434422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4345 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4346 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4347 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4348 that needed quoting.
4349
435023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4351 was not being matched caselessly.
4352
435324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4354 backslashes.
4355
435625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4357 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4358 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4359 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4360 when use_sender is false.
4361
436226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4363
436427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4365
436628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4367
436829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4369 the configuration file.
4370
437130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4372 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4373
437431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4375
437632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4377 bytes in the message body.
4378
437933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4380 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4381 delivery.
4382
438334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4384
438535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4386
438736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4388 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4389 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4390 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4391 another IP address.
4392
4393
4394Exim version 4.34
4395-----------------
4396
4397 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4398 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4399
4400 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4401 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4402 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4403 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4404 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4405
4406 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4407 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4408
4409 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4410 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4411 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4412
4413 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4414 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4415 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4416
4417 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4418 for routers.
4419
4420 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4421 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4422 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4423 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4424 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4425 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4426 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4427
4428
4429Exim version 4.33
4430-----------------
4431
4432 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4433 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4434 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4435 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4436 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4437 default (and expected) setting.
4438
4439 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4440 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4441 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4442 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4443
4444 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4445 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4446
4447 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4448 in domain lists.
4449
4450 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4451 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4452 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4453 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4454 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4455 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4456
4457 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4458 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4459 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4460
4461 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4462 part (NOT match_host).
4463
4464 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4465
4466 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4467 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4468 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4469 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4470 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4471 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4472 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4473 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4474 the same named file.
4475
447610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4477 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4478 when Exim is built.
4479
448011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4481 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4482 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4483 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4484 a host name.
4485
448612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4487 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4488 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4489
449013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4491
449214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4493
449415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4495
449616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4497 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4498
449917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4500 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4501 before starting the TLS session.
4502
450318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4504
450519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4506 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4507
450820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4509 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4510 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4511 colon in the middle).
4512
4513
4514Exim version 4.32
4515-----------------
4516
4517 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4518 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4519 multiple configurations are in use.
4520
4521 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4522 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4523 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4524 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4525 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4526 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4527
4528 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4529 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4530
4531 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4532 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4533 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4534
4535 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4536 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4537 occurs.
4538
4539 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4540 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4541
4542 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4543
4544 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4545 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4546
4547 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4548
4549 -prval:sval
4550
4551 is equivalent to
4552
4553 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4554
4555 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4556 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4557 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4558 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4559 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4560
456110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4562 Exim's behaviour:
4563
4564 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4565 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4566 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4567 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4568 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4569 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4570
4571 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4572 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4573 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4574 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4575 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4576 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4577 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4578 string.
4579
4580 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4581 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4582 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4583 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4584 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4585
458611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4587
458812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4589 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4590 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4591
459213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4593
459414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4595 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4596 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4597 information.
4598
459915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4600 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4601
460216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4603 Three changes have been made:
4604
4605 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4606 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4607 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4608 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4609 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4610
4611 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4612 been restored.
4613
4614 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4615 the modified behaviour.
4616
4617
4618Exim version 4.31
4619-----------------
4620
4621 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4622 Larry Rosenman.
4623
4624 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4625 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4626
4627 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4628 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4629 try to track down a specific problem.
4630
4631 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4632 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4633 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4634
4635 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4636 warning.
4637
4638 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4639 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4640 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4641 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4642 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4643 some earlier ones do not.
4644
4645 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4646
4647 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4648 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4649 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4650 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4651 address literals are enabled, of course).
4652
4653 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4654
465510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4656 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4657 by a command such as
4658
4659 exim -f "" ...
4660
4661 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4662
466311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4664
466512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4666 remained set. It is now erased.
4667
466813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4669 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4670
467114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4672 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4673 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4674 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4675 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4676 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4677 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4678 appropriate error code.
4679
468015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4681 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4682 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4683 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4684 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4685 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4686
468716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4688 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4689 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4690
469117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4692 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4693 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4694 terminate the header.
4695
469618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4697 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4698 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4699
470019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4701 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4702 (4.30/29). In particular:
4703
4704 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4705 imposed.
4706
4707 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4708 to write a maildirsize file.
4709
4710 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4711 the transport, the new value overrides.
4712
4713 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4714 count.
4715
471620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4717 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4718 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4719 space or a tab.
4720
472121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4722 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4723 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4724 the fallback hosts.
4725
472622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4727 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4728 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4729
473023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4731 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4732 using a union.
4733
473424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4735 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4736 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4737
473825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4739
474026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4741
474227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4743
474428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4745 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4746 become corrupted.
4747
474829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4749 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4750 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4751 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4752 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4753 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4754 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4755 too great.
4756
475730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4758 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4759 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4760 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4761 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4762 incorrectly.
4763
476431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4765 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4766 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4767 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4768 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4769 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4770 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4771 cached value only when the same options are set.
4772
477332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4774
477533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4776 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4777 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4778 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4779 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4780
478134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4782 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4783 it is clearly obsolete.
4784
478535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4786 transport.
4787
478836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4789 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4790 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4791 times.
4792
479337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4794 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4795 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4796 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4797 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4798
479938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4800 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4801 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4802 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4803
480439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4805
4806 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4807
4808 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4809 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4810 2^31.
4811
481240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4813 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4814 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4815 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4816 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4817 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4818 $localpart_data.
4819
482041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4821 with the -f command-line option.
4822
482342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4824 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4825 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4826 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4827 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4828 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4829
483043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4831 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4832 line.
4833
483444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4835 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4836 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4837 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4838 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4839 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4840 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4841 buffer is too small.
4842
484345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4844 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4845
484646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4847 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4848 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4849 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4850 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4851 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4852 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4853 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4854 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4855
485647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4857 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4858 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4859
486048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4861 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4862 ACL").
4863
486449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4865 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4866 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4867 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4868 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4869
487050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4871 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4872 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4873 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4874 is set.
4875
487651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4877
487852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4879
488053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4881 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4882
488354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4884 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4885 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4886
488755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4888 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4889 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4890 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4891 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4892
489356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4894 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4895 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4896 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4897 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4898 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4899 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4900
490157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4902 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4903 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4904 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4905 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4906 the test of how many are available.
4907
490858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4909 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4910 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4911 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4912 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4913 new message is started.
4914
491559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4916 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4917
491860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4919 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4920
492161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4922 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4923 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4924 is no long logged.
4925
492662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4927 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4928 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4929 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4930 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4931 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4932 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4933
493463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4935 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4936 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4937 interpreted as octal.
4938
493964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4940 setting.
4941
494265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4943 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4944 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4945 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4946 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4947 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4948
494966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4950 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4951 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4952 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4953
4954 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4955 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4956 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4957 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4958
4959 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4960 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4961 is a bug fix.
4962
4963 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4964 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4965
496667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4967
496868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4969 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4970 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4971 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4972
497369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4974 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4975 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4976 supplied", which is not helpful.
4977
497870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4979 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4980 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4981
498271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4983 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4984 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4985 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4986 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4987 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4988 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4989 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4990
499172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4992 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4993 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4994 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4995 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4996
499773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4998 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4999 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5000 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5001 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5002 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5003
500474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5005 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5006 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5007
500875. Added write_rejectlog option.
5009
501076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5011 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5012 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5013 variables.
5014
501577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5016
501778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5018 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5019 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5020 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5021 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5022 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5023 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5024 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5025
502679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5027 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5028 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5029 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5030 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5031
503280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5033 Haardt.
5034
503581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5036 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5037 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5038 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5039 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5040 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5041 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5042 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5043 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5044
5045
5046Exim version 4.30
5047-----------------
5048
5049 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5050 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5051 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5052
5053 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5054 fixed.
5055
5056 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5057 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5058 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5059
5060 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5061 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5062 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5063 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5064 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5065 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5066
5067 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5068 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5069 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5070 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5071 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5072 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5073 the Exim test suite.
5074
5075 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5076 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5077 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5078 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5079
5080 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5081 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5082 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5083 specify it in this variable.
5084
5085 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5086 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5087 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5088 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5089
5090 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5091 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5092 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5093 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5094
5095 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5096 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5097 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5098 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5099 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5100
5101 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5102
510310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5104 they are logged.
5105
510611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5107 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5108 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5109 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5110 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5111
511212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5113 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5114
511513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5116 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5117 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5118 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5119 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5120
512114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5122 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5123
512415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5125 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5126 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5127
512816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5129 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5130
513117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5132 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5133
513418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5135 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5136 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5137
513819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5139 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5140
514120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5142 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5143 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5144 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5145
514621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5147
514822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5149 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5150 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5151 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5152
515323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5154
515524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5156 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5157
515825. Added .include_if_exists.
5159
516026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5161 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5162 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5163 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5164 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5165 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5166
516727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5168
516928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5170 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5171 this.
5172
517329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5174
517530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5176 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5177
5178 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5179 550 Sender verify failed
5180
5181 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5182 the final line of the response.
5183
518431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5185 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5186 all other user lookups.
5187
518832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5189 delivery time.
5190
519133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5192 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5193 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5194 result into an int without checking.
5195
519634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5197 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5198 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5199
520035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5201 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5202 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5203 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5204
520536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5206 correctly.
5207
520837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5209 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5210
521138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5212 to the empty sender.
5213
521439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5215 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5216 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5217 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5218 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5219 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5220 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5221 panic log.
5222
522340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5224 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5225 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5226 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5227 used.
5228
522941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5230 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5231
523242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5233 timestamps.
5234
523543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5236 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5237
523844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5239
524045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5241 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5242 logs.
5243
524446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5245 as soon as it is encountered.
5246
524747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5248
524948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5250 rewritten to "<>".
5251
525249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5253 recognizes a tab character.
5254
525550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5256 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5257 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5258 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5259
526051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5261
526252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5263 crash.
5264
526553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5266
526754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5268
526955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5270 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5271 2822.
5272
527356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5274 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5275 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5276 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5277 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5278
527957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5280 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5281
528258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5283 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5284 list (.included file names were always shown).
5285
528659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5287 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5288 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5289 root at that time.
5290
529160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5292 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5293
529461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5295
529662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5297
529863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5299
530064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5301 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5302 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5303 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5304 failures to open the logs.
5305
530665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5307 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5308 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5309 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5310 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5311 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5312 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5313
5314
5315Exim version 4.24
5316-----------------
5317
5318 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5319 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5320 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5321 change 4.23/1.
5322
5323 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5324 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5325 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5326
5327 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5328 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5329 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5330
5331 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5332 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5333 causing some misleading effects.
5334
5335 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5336 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5337 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5338
5339 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5340 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5341 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5342 queue-runner function directly.
5343
5344
5345Exim version 4.23
5346-----------------
5347
5348 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5349 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5350
5351 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5352 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5353 was always written to the default place.
5354
5355 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5356 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5357 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5358
5359 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5360
5361 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5362
5363 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5364 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5365 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5366
5367 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5368 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5369 must start.
5370
5371 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5372 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5373 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5374
5375 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5376 command line option is disabled.
5377
5378 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5379 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5380
5381 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5382
5383 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5384
5385 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5386 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5387
538810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5389
539011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5391 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5392 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5393 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5394 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5395 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5396
539712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5398 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5399 timeout.
5400
540113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5402 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5403
540414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5405 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5406
540715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5408 received was valid base64.
5409
541016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5411 name of the variable that was being set.
5412
541317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5414
541518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5416 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5417 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5418 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5419 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5420 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5421
542219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5423
542420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5425 nor realm was specified.
5426
542721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5428 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5429 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5430 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5431
543222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5433 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5434 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5435
543623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5437 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5438 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5439
544024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5441 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5442 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5443 some systems use these upper case variants.
5444
544525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5446 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5447 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5448 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5449
545026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5451
545227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5453 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5454
545528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5456 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5457 expansion variable.
5458
545929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5460
546130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5462 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5463 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5464 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5465
546631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5467 using it.
5468
546932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5470 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5471 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5472
547333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5474 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5475
547634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5477 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5478 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5479 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5480
548135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5482 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5483 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5484
548536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5486
548737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5488 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5489 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5490 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5491 aborted.
5492
549338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5494 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5495 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5496
549739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5498
549940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5500 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5501
550241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5503 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5504
550542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5506 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5507 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5508 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5509 when emails are that large.
5510
5511
5512
5513Exim version 4.22
5514-----------------
5515
5516 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5517 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5518
5519 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5520 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5521 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5522
5523 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5524 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5525 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5526
5527 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5528 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5529 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5530 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5531 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5532
5533 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5534 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5535 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5536 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5537 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5538 ever.
5539
5540 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5541 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5542 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5543 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5544 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5545 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5546 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5547 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5548 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5549 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5550 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5551 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5552 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5553 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5554
5555 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5556 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5557 parameterised it.
5558
5559 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5560 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5561 error should be diagnosed.
5562
5563 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5564 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5565 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5566 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5567 appeared instead of "NULL".
5568
556910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5570 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5571 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5572 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5573 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5574 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5575 proceeds).
5576
5577 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5578 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5579 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5580
5581
5582Exim version 4.21
5583-----------------
5584
5585 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5586 or receiver verification errors.
5587
5588 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5589 name.
5590
5591 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5592 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5593 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5594 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5595
5596 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5597 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5598 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5599 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5600 shouldn't happen again.
5601
5602 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5603 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5604 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5605
5606 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5607 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5608
5609 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5610
5611 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5612 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5613
5614 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5615 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5616 RFC.
5617
561810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5619 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5620 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5621
562211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5623 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5624 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5625 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5626
562712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5628 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5629 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5630 to define what should happen).
5631
563213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5633 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5634 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5635
563614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5637
563815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5639
564016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5641 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5642
564317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5644 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5645 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5646 structure in all cases.
5647
5648 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5649 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5650 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5651 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5652
565318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5654 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5655 domain name.
5656
565719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5658 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5659
566020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5661 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5662
566321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5664 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5665 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5666
566722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5668 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5669 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5670
567123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5672 the book and for uniformity.
5673
567424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5675
567625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5677 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5678 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5679 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5680 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5681 non-existent command as the problem.
5682
568326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5684 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5685 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5686
568727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5688
568928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5690 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5691 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5692
569329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5694 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5695 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5696 timestamps using strftime().
5697
569830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5699 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5700
570132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5702 transport-time rewrites.
5703
570433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5705 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5706 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5707 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5708
570934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5710 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5711
571235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5713 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5714 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5715 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5716 comma and a space.
5717
571836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5719 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5720 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5721 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5722 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5723 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5724 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5725
572637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5727 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5728 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5729 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5730 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5731
573238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5733 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5734 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5735 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5736 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5737 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5738 remaining text gets split now.
5739
574039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5741 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5742 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5743 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5744
574540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5746 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5747 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5748 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5749 $return_path.
5750
575141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5752 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5753 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5754 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5755 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5756 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5757 passed through if needed.
5758
575942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5760 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5761 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5762 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5763 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5764 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5765
576643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5767 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5768 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5769 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5770 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5771
577244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5773 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5774 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5775 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5776 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5777
577845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5779 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5780 noticed.
5781
578246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5783 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5784 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5785 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5786 mayhem of various kinds.
5787
578847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5789 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5790 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5791 the right test for positive values.
5792
579348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5794 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5795 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5796 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5797 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5798 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5799 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5800 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5801 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5802 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5803 envelope.
5804
580549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5806 module.
5807
580850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5809 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5810 forbidding it.
5811
581251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5813 the existing equality matching.
5814
581552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5816 dealing with inode numbers.
5817
581853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5819 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5820 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5821
582254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5823 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5824 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5825 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5826 local_scan().
5827
582855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5829 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5830 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5831 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5832 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5833 relay addresses has also been removed.
5834
583556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5836
583757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5838 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5839 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5840
584158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5842 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5843 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5844 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5845 processing applies to CR:
5846
5847 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5848 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5849
5850 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5851 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5852 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5853 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5854
585559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5856 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5857 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5858
585960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5860 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5861 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5862 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5863 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5864 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5865 arisen.
5866
586761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5868 program routers.
5869
587062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5871 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5872 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5873 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5874 adds:
5875
5876 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5877
5878 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5879
5880 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5881
588263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5883 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5884 not considered personal.
5885
588664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5887
588865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5889
589066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5891
589267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5893 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5894 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5895 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5896 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5897 header lines, and spool format errors.
5898
589968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5900 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5901 for more flexibility.
5902
590369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5904 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5905 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5906
590770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5908 Sabourenkov.
5909
591071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5911 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5912 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5913 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5914 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5915 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5916 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5917 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5918 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5919
592072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5921 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5922 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5923 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5924 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5925 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5926 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5927
592873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5929 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5930 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5931
593274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5933 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5934 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5935 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5936 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5937 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5938 instead of killing the process with assert().
5939
594075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5941 than Unicode encoding.
5942
594376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5944 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5945 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5946 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5947
594877. Added process_log_path.
5949
595078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5951 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5952
595379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5954 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5955
595680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5957 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5958 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5959
596081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5961 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5962 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5963 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5964 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5965 were applied:
5966
5967 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5968 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5969 as invalid.
5970
597182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5972 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5973 they will be used during message reception.
5974
5975
5976Exim version 4.20
5977-----------------
5978
5979The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5980
5981****