SOCKS: downgrade from DISABLE_SOCKS to SUPPORT_SOCKS in Local/Makefile
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
98b98887 66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
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90HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
91 with the $config_file variable.
92
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93JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
94 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
95 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
96 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
97 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
98
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99GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
100 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
101 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
102 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
103 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
104
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105JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
106
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107JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
108 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
109 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
110 list order is no longer honoured.
111
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112JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
113 for DKIM processing.
114
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115JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
116 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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121JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
122 expanded.
123
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124JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
125
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126JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
127 it.
128
01a4a5c5 129JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 130 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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131 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
132 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
133
cb1d7830 134JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 135 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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136 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
137
610ff438 138JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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139 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
140 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
141 TLS connections
610ff438 142
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143JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
144 sites use this now.
145
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146JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
147 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
148 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
149 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
150 have a dsn_lasthop option.
151
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152JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
153 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 154 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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156JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
157
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158JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
159 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
160
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161JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
162 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
163
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164JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
165 /defer_ok option.
166
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167JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
168 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
169
fd4d8871 170JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 171 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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172 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
173
174JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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175 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
176 specify a port-range.
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178JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
179 timeout value per server.
180
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181JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
182 now have the list separator specified.
183
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184JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
185 option values.
186
82c0c8ea 187JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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188 under OpenSSL.
189
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190JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
191
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192JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
193 rather than the verbs used.
194
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195JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
196 from 255 to 1024 chars.
197
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198JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
199
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200HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
201 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 202
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203JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
204 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
205
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206HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
207 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
208
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209JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
210
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211JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
212
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213JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
214 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
215 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
216 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
217
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218JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
219
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220JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
221 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
222
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223JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
224 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
225
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226JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
227
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228JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
229
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230JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
231
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232JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
233 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
234
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235JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
236 added for tls authenticator.
237
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241TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
242 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
243 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
244 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
245 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
246 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
247 the script parsing/test process like normal.
248
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249TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
250 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
251 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
252 function when detected.
253
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254JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
255 cause callback expansion.
256
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257TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
258 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
259 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
260 instead of bool when processing it.
261
0f06b4f2 262JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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263 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
264
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265JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
266
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267JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
268
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269TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
270
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271TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
272 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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274JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
275 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
276 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
277 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
278 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
279 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
280
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281JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
282 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
283 exceeded it.
284
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285JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
286 version 3.3.6 or later.
287
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288JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
289 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
290 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 291 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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292 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
293 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
294 option is defined.
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296TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
297 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
298
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299JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
300 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
301 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
302 matches.
303
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304JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
305 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
306 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
307
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308JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
309 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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311JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
312 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
313 syntax errors.
314
3394b36a 315JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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317JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
318 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
319
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320TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
321 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
322 tarball.
323
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324JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
325
326JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
327 Bug 1561.
328
329JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
330 output list separator was used.
331
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335TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
336 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
337 return.
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339JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
340 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
341
342JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
343
344TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 345 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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350
351TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
352
353 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
354 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
355 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
356 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
357 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
358 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
359
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360TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
361 utilities have not been installed.
362
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363JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
364 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
365
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366TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
367 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
368
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369TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
370 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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371 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
372 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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374JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
375
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376TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
377 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
378
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379PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
380 not dns_use_dnssec.
381
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382JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
383
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384TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
385 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
386 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
387
8ddef691 388TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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389 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
390 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
391 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
392 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 393 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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395JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
396
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397JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
398 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
399
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400JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
401 failed delivery.
402
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403JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
404
511a6c14 405JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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407JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
408 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 409
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410JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
411 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
412
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413TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
414
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415JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
416
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417JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
418 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
419
420 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
421 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
422 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
423
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424TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
425 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
426 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
427 analysis.
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429JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
430
8c51eead 431JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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432 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
433 lookup).
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435TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
436 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
437 Schlichting.
35aba663 438
fd3b6a4a 439JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 440 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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442TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
443 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
444
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445JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
446
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447TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
448 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
449 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
450
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451JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
452 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
453
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454JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
455 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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456 hosts_request_ocsp.
457
ed3bba5f 458JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 459 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 460 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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462JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
463
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464TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
465 Christian Aistleitner.
466
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467JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
468
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469TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
470 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
471
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472JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
473 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
474
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475JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
476 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
477
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478TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
479 support and error reporting did not work properly.
480
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481TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
482 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
483
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484TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
485 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
486 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
487
0df4ab80
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488JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
489
66be95e0
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490PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
491 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
492 Jasper Wallace.
493
1bd0d12b
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494JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
495
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496TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
497 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
498 CVE-2014-2972
499
fd3b6a4a 500
2c422e6f 501Exim version 4.82
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503
504PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
505
12f69989
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506PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
507 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
508
54c90be1
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509PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
510 by GnuTLS.
511
1f4a55da
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512PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
513 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
514 routines.
515
13363eba 516PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 517
66645890 518PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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519 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
520 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
521 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
522 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 523
a3fb9793 524PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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525 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
526 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
527 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 528 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 529 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 530
d27f98fe 531TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 532
6822b909
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533TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
534
e7568d51
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535TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
536 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
537
ae0e32ee 538TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 539 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 540 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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541
542TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 543
e2658fff
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544TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
545
83712b39
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546TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
547 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
548
976b7e9f
JH
549JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
550
be4a1376
JH
551JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
552
ec4b68e5
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553PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
554
d7148a07
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555NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
556 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 557
585121e2 558JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 559
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560PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
561 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
562 function.
a5f239e4 563
13d08c90
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564PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
565 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
566
bef3ea7f
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567JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
568 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
569 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 570
846726c5
JH
571JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
572
3a796370
JH
573JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
574
ea722490 575JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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576 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
577
b1b05573
JH
578JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
579 Bugzilla 884.
580
362145b5
JH
581JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
582 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
583
3c0a92dc
JH
584JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
585 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
586
6d7c6175
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587PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
588 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 589 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 590
6f123593
JH
591JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
592 authenticators.
593
c8e2fc1e
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594JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
595 for control.
596
005ac57f
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597PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
598
3f1df0e3
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599PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
600 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
601 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
602 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
603
67bd1ab3
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604TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
605
606 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
607 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
608 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
609 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
610 the retry rules.
611
612 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
613 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
614 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
615
616 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
617 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
618 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
619 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
620
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621 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
622 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
623 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
624 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
625 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
626 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
627 delivery, as in LMTP.
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628
629 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
630 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
631
326cdc37
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632TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
633
634 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
635
636 Resent-From: f
637
638 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
639 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
640 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
641 username as equal to the username.
642
643 This change corrects that bug.
644
f62514b3
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645GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
646 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
647 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
648
eb505532
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649TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
650
14c7b357
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651PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
652 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
653 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
654 NULL dereference and crash.
655
94eaf700
PP
656JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
657
6f5a440a
PP
658PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
659 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
660 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
661
514ee161
SC
662SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
663
fd98a5c6
JH
664JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
665 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
666 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
667 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
668 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
669 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
670 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
671 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
672 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
673 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
674 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
675
035c7f1e
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676PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
677 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
678
ff284120
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679PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
680 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
681 Bugzilla 880.
682
26e72755
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683PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
684 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
685 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
686 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
687 an empty string is now equivalent.
688
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689PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
690 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
691 not performing validation itself.
692
700d22f3
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693PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
694 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
695
fcc8e047
JH
696JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
697 Bugzilla 321, 823.
698
7142daca
PP
699TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
700
8c020188
PP
701PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
702 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
703 other false fix of the same issue.
704 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
705 Bugzilla 1363.
706
d13cdd30
PP
707PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
708 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
709
e2fbf4a2
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710PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
711 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
712 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
713
f4c1088b
PP
714PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
715 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
716 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
717
c5c2182f
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718TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
719
73431ca9
JH
720JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
721
2d07a215
TL
722TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
723 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
724
a30a8861
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725TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
726 Alexander Miroch.
727
33382dd9
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728TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
729 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
730 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
731 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
732 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 733
046172e6
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734TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
735 the src/util/ subdirectory.
736
581d7bee 737TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 738 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
739 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
740
741TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
742 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
743 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
744 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
745
237b2cf2
TL
746TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
747
9fc5a352
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748TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
749 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
750 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 751
b10e4ec2
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752TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
753
e2cebd74
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754TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
755 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
756 interaction.
757
758TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
759 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
760
2519e60d
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761TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
762 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
763
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765Exim version 4.80.1
766-------------------
767
768PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
769 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 770 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 771
ea722490 772
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775
776PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
777 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
778 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
779
23c7e742
NM
780NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
781
b322aac8
NM
782NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
783 improved.
784
4a891427
NM
785NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
786
c1e794ba 787PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 788
97753960
PP
789PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
790
791PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
792 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
793
df6303fa
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794PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
795 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
796
7e6a8985
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797PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
798 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
799
f1e05cc7 800PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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801 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
802 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 803
4c287009
PP
804PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
805
b98bb9ac
PP
806PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
807 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
808
4a6a987a
PP
809PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
810
c45dd180 811PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 812
7db8d074
PP
813PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
814 non-compliant senders.
815 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
816
eae0036b 817NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
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818 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
819 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
820
dec5017e
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821PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
822 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
823 in spool file corruption.
824
c80c5570
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825PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
826 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
827 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
828 "Got SSL error 2".
829
076b11e2
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830TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
831 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
832 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
833
5407bfff
JH
834JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
835 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
836
9e45c72b
PP
837JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
838
e74376d8
PP
839PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
840 diagnostics.
841 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
842
da3ad30d
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843PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
844 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
845 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
846
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847PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
848 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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849 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
850 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 851
ef840681
PP
852PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
853 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
854
5bfb4cdf
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855PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
856 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
857 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
858 resolver implementation change.
859
c6e95d22
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860PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
861 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
862
9cbad13b
PP
863PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
864
9ee44efb
PP
865PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
866
6a6084f8
PP
867PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
868 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
869
12dd53c7
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870PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
871 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
872
9e45c72b 873JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
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874 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
875
17c76198
PP
876PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
877 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
878 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
879 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 880 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 881
53947857 882PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 883
eae0036b 884PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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885 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
886 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 887
9e45c72b 888JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 889
7390e768
PP
890PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
891 read-only, out of scope).
892 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
893
08488c86
PP
894PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
895 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
896 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
897 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
898
6475bd82
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899PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
900
81f91683
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901PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
902 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
903 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
904 real issues in debug logging.
905
5779e6aa
PP
906PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
907 assignment on my part. Fixed.
908
3375e053
PP
909PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
910 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
911 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
912
913PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
914 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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915 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
916 problems.
3375e053 917
9d26b8c0
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918PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
919 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
920
57eb9e91 921PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
922 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
923 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
924 needs to override this, it can.
925
16880d1a
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926PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
927 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
928 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
929
a799883d
PP
930PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
931 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
932 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
933 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
934
3ecab157 935PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 936
0599f9cf 937
867fcbf5
PP
938Exim version 4.77
939-----------------
940
941PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
942 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
943
f1a29782
TF
944TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
945
ab42bd23
TK
946TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
947 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 948
0ca0cf52
TF
949TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
950 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
951
921b12ca
TF
952TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
953 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
954 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
955
956 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
957 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
958 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
959 not safe for signals.
960
961 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
962 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
963 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
964 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
965 exiwhat.
966
c99ce5c9
TF
967TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
968
969 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
970 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
971 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
972 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
973 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
974
975 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
976 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
977 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
978 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
979 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
980 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
981
982 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
983 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
984 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
985 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
986
987 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
988 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
989 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
990 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
991
992 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
993 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
994 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
995 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
996 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
997 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
998 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
999 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1000 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1001
1002 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1003 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1004 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1005 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1006
1007 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1008 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1009 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1010 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1011 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1012 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1013 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1014 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1015 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1016 details in the main documentation.
1017
3634fc25
TF
1018TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1019
792e8a19
TF
1020TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1021
5901f0ab
TF
1022TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1023 repository when doing development or release builds.
1024
7f2a2a43
PP
1025PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1026 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1027
061b7ebd
PP
1028PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1029 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1030 Bugzilla 97.
1031
e12f8c32
PP
1032PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1033
9e949f00 1034PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1035 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1036
1037PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1038 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1039
555ae6af 1040PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1041 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1042
1043PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1044 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1045
6f7fe114
PP
1046PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1047 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1048
c566dd90
PP
1049PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1050 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1051 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1052 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1053
d6cc7c78 1054PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1055 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1056 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1057
0d0e4455
PP
1058PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1059
3399bb60 1060PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1061
1062PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1063 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1064
0ca0cf52 1065
10906672
PP
1066Exim version 4.76
1067-----------------
1068
1069PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1070
754a0503
PP
1071PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1072 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1073
c0c7b2da
PP
1074PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1075
e97d1f08
PP
1076PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1077
084c1d8c
PP
1078PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1079 Bugzilla 1098.
1080
4e7ee012
PP
1081PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1082 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1083
c8d52a00
PP
1084TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1085 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1086
54e7ce4a
PP
1087PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1088 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1089
5ee6f336
PP
1090PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1091 Bugzilla 1104.
1092
c8d52a00 1093TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1094 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1095
1096TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1097 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1098 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1099 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1100
1101PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1102 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1103
10906672 1104
aa097c4c
NM
1105Exim version 4.75
1106-----------------
1107
4c9ef03a 1108NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1109 Bugzilla 1073
1110
7f3d9eff
TF
1111TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1112 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1113 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1114
159f52d2
TF
1115TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1116 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1117
0cc9542a
PP
1118PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1119 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1120 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1121
f7274286
PP
1122PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1123 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1124
7b797365
PP
1125PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1126 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1127
caacae52
NM
1128NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1129 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1130
09dcaba9
NM
1131NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1132 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1133
bc19a55b
PP
1134PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1135 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1136
bd4c9759
NM
1137NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1138 Fixes bug 943.
1139
b72aab72
PP
1140PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1141 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1142
2fe76745
PP
1143PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1144 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1145
76aa570c
PP
1146PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1147 SQL string expansion failure details.
1148 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1149
f1e5fef5
PP
1150PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1151 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1152
4d805ee9
PP
1153PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1154 extern declarations in function scope.
1155 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1156
cd59ab18
PP
1157PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1158 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1159 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1160 a kernel bug).
1161
332f5cf3
PP
1162PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1163 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1164
29cfeb94
PP
1165PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1166 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1167
660242ad
PP
1168PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1169 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1170
bc4bc4c5
PP
1171PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1172 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1173
2e64baa9
NM
1174NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1175 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1176 Dennis Davis.
1177
bddd7526
PP
1178PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1179
6bac1a9a
PP
1180PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1181
552193f0
NM
1182NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1183 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1184
1b587e48
TF
1185TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1186 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1187
aa097c4c 1188
8c07b69f
TF
1189Exim version 4.74
1190-----------------
1191
1192TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1193 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1194
c0ea85ab
TF
1195TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1196 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1197
0761d44e
TF
1198TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1199
0a349494
PP
1200DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1201 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1202 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1203
1204PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1205 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1206 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1207
fea24b2e
PP
1208PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1209 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1210 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1211 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1212
6545de78
PP
1213PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1214 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1215 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1216 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1217
1670ef10
PP
1218PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1219 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1220 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1221 arbitrary files.
1222
c0886197
PP
1223PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1224 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1225
b7487bce
PP
1226PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1227 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1228 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1229 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1230 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1231
8c07b69f 1232
97fd1e48 1233Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1234-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1235
1236PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1237 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1238 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1239
6901c596
PP
1240PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1241 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1242
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1243JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1244
77bb000f
PP
1245PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1246
a29e5231
PP
1247PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1248
ec5a0394 1249PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1250
55c75993
PP
1251PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1252
453a6645 1253PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1254 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1255 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1256 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1257
8544e77a
PP
1258PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1259 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1260 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1261 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1262 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1263
83e029d5
PP
1264PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1265
ed7f7860
PP
1266PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1267
7d9f747b
PP
1268PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1269
4b2241d2
PP
1270PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1271
10385c15
PP
1272PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1273
dbc4b90d
PP
1274PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1275
532be449
PP
1276PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1277
6a8de854 1278PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1279 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1280 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1281
5dc43717
JJ
1282JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1283
1284JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1285 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1286
3346ab01
PP
1287PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1288 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1289
491fab4c
PP
1290PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1291 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1292 Notification from John Horne.
1293
13eb9497
PP
1294PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1295 compatible.
1296
1297PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1298 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1299 it normally works.
1300
7f36d675
DW
1301DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1302 access.
1303
c1d94452
DW
1304DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1305 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1306 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1307
e2f5dc15
DW
1308DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1309 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1310 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1311 configuration file.
1312
cd25e41d
DW
1313DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1314 option (effectively making it always true).
1315
261dc43e
DW
1316DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1317 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1318
fa32850b
DW
1319DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1320 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1321
79d4bc3d
PP
1322PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1323 run-time user, instead of root.
1324
43236f35 1325PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1326 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1327
fb08281f
DW
1328DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1329 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1330 arguments.
3346ab01 1331
74935b98
DW
1332DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1333 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1334 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1335
90b6341f
DW
1336DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1337
57730b52
ML
1338NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1339
66581d1e 1340
465e92cf
JJ
1341Exim version 4.72
1342-----------------
1343
453a6645
PP
1344JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1345 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1346 typos
465e92cf 1347
453a6645
PP
1348JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1349 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1350 (Finput)
edae0343 1351
9bd3e22c
NM
1352NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1353 Patch from Alain Williams
1354
bb576ff7
NM
1355NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1356
5a1a5845
NM
1357NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1358 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1359
981a9fad
NM
1360NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1361 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1362
7fc497ee
NM
1363NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1364
1a41defa
JJ
1365JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1366
a466095c 1367NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1368 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1369
94a6bd0b
NM
1370TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1371
1372TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1373
1374MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1375 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1376 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1377
c1b141a8
NM
1378NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1379 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1380
b26eacf1 1381NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1382 Patch by Simon Arlott
1383
179c5980 1384PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1385 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1386
9bd3e22c 1387
7c6d71af
NM
1388Exim version 4.71
1389-----------------
1390
7d9f747b 1391TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1392
f013fb92
NM
1393NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1394
0eb8eedd
NM
1395NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1396
663ee6d9
NM
1397NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1398
177ebd9b
NM
1399NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1400
7c6d71af 1401
210f147e
NM
1402Exim version 4.70
1403-----------------
1404
cdd3bb85 1405TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1406 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1407
1408TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1409 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1410 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1411
1412TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1413 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1414 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1415
1416TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1417 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1418
210f147e
NM
1419NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1420 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1421 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1422 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1423
deafd5b3
NM
1424NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1425 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1426 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1427
089793a4
TF
1428TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1429
5f16ca82
TF
1430TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1431
dae9d94e 1432NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1433 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1434
7d9f747b 1435NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1436
06864c44
TF
1437TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1438 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1439 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1440 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1441
65a7d8c3 1442NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1443 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1444
23510047 1445TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1446
7d9f747b 1447NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1448
7d8eec3a 1449NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1450 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1451
89dec7b6
TF
1452TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1453 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1454
a99de90c
TF
1455TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1456 that they are available at delivery time.
1457
e2803e40
TF
1458TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1459
7199e1ee
TF
1460TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1461 incoming_port log selectors.
1462
e276e04b
TF
1463TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1464 setting expands to an empty string.
1465
ce552449 1466NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1467 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1468
e765a0f1 1469NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1470 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1471
4f054c63 1472NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1473 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1474
7d9f747b
PP
1475NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1476 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1477
7d9f747b
PP
1478NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1479 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1480
b52bc06e 1481NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1482 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1483
447de4b0
NM
1484NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1485
4c69d561 1486NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1487 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1488
d5c39246 1489NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1490 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1491
0b23848a
TK
1492TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1493
8f3414a1 1494NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1495 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1496
fb6f955d
NM
1497NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1498
1499NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1500
7d9f747b
PP
1501NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1502 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1503
7d9f747b
PP
1504NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1505 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1506
7d9f747b
PP
1507NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1508 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1509
7d9f747b
PP
1510NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1511 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1512
7d9f747b
PP
1513NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1514 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1515
7d9f747b
PP
1516NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1517 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1518
7d9f747b
PP
1519NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1520 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1521
7d9f747b 1522NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1523 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1524
7d9f747b 1525NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1526
7d9f747b
PP
1527NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1528 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1529
7d9f747b 1530NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1531
7d9f747b 1532NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1533
7d9f747b 1534NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1535
7d9f747b 1536NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1537
17792b53 1538NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1539 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1540
7d9f747b
PP
1541NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1542 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1543
91576cec 1544NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1545 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1546
7d9f747b
PP
1547NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1548 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1549
7d9f747b 1550NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1551
7d9f747b 1552NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1553
7d9f747b 1554NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1555
7d9f747b 1556NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1557
deafd5b3 1558
47db1125
NM
1559Exim version 4.69
1560-----------------
1561
4b3504d0
TK
1562TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1563 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1564 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1565
1566 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1567 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1568 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1569 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1570 build errors in sieve.c.
1571
81ea09ca
NM
1572NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1573 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1574 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1575
f13cddcb
SC
1576SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1577
7d9f747b 1578NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1579
7d9f747b 1580NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1581
7d9f747b 1582NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1583
1584
eb4c0de6
PH
1585Exim version 4.68
1586-----------------
1587
1588PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1589
6a3bceb1
PH
1590PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1591 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1592 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1593 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1594 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1595 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1596 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1597 for iplsearch lookups.
1598
1599 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1600 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1601 previously such lookups could never work.
1602
1603 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1604 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1605 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1606
2e30fa9d
TK
1607TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1608 version.
1609
0806a9c5
MH
1610MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1611 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1612 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1613 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1614 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1615 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1616
ae276964
TK
1617TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1618 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1619
0f2cbd1b
MH
1620MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1621 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1622 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1623 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1624 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1625 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1626
2b85bce7
PH
1627PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1628 local_scan API.
1629
93655c46
PH
1630PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1631
6c512171
PH
1632PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1633 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1634 encrypted.
1635
1636PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1637 by clients under certain conditions.
1638
aa6dc513
PH
1639PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1640 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1641
a96603a0
PH
1642PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1643
8f240103
PH
1644PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1645 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1646
1647PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1648
d677b2f2
PH
1649PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1650
d52120f2
PH
1651PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1652
64f2600a
PH
1653PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1654 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1655
8669f003
PH
1656PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1657
a4dc33a8
PH
1658PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1659 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1660
d6a60c0f
PH
1661PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1662
8f128379
PH
1663PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1664
8932dffe
PH
1665PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1666 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1667 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1668 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1669
ddea74fa 1670PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1671 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1672 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1673
ddea74fa 1674PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1675 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1676
ddea74fa
PH
1677PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1678
ce9f225c
PH
1679PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1680
19897d52
PH
1681PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1682
bc64a74d
PH
1683PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1684 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1685 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1686
eb4c0de6 1687
b4ed4da0
PH
1688Exim version 4.67
1689-----------------
1690
22ad45c9
MH
1691MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1692 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1693 Jan Srzednicki.
1694
b4ed4da0
PH
1695PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1696 issue a MAIL command.
1697
431b7361
PH
1698PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1699
1700 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1701
1702 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1703 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1704 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1705 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1706 item. This has been fixed.
1707
1708PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1709 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1710
83da1223
PH
1711PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1712 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1713
54fc8428
PH
1714PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1715 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1716 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1717
34c5e8dd
SC
1718SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1719
bbe15da8
PH
1720PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1721 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1722 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1723 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1724 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1725
0e8a9471
MH
1726MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1727 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1728 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1729
f0872424
PH
1730PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1731 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1732 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1733 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1734
b01dd148
PH
1735PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1736
6bf342e1
PH
1737PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1738
273f34d0
PH
1739PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1740 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1741 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1742 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1743 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1744
cf8b11a5
PH
1745PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1746
41c7c167
PH
1747PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1748 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1749 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1750 values).
1751
9c57cbc0
PH
1752PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1753
f3f065bb
PH
1754PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1755
047bdd8c
PH
1756PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1757
0ce9abe6
PH
1758PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1759
0e22dfd1
PH
1760PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1761
4c590bd1
PH
1762PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1763 no_callout_flush is set.
1764
09945f1e
PH
1765PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1766 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1767 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1768 fixed.
1769
c51b8e75
PH
1770PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1771
e28326d8
PH
1772PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1773 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1774 other ACL rejections are.
1775
75b1493f
PH
1776PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1777 with slight modification.
1778
7c5214ec
PH
1779PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1780 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1781
4311097e
PH
1782PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1783 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1784 connection.
1785
29f89cad
PH
1786PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1787 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1788
5e687460
SC
1789SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1790
c3611384
PH
1791PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1792 expansion side effects.
1793
5a11a7b4
PH
1794PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1795 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1796 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1797 be the same.
1798
0e20aff9
MH
1799MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1800 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1801 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1802
ca86f471
PH
1803PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1804 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1805 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1806 were accidentally chopped off.
1807
a14e5636
PH
1808PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1809 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1810 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1811 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1812 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1813 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1814 pipelining has not been advertised.
1815
ec95d1a6
PH
1816PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1817
42855d71
PH
1818PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1819 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1820 This has been fixed.
1821
57c2c631
PH
1822PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1823 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1824 reported on Solaris.
1825
58c01c94
PH
1826PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1827 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1828 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1829 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1830 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1831 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1832 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1833
dee5a20a
PH
1834PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1835 cpus.
1836
d2ee6114
PH
1837PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1838
b2d5182b
PH
1839PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1840
79749a79
PH
1841PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1842 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1843 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1844 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1845 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1846 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1847
c456d9bb
PH
1848PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1849 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1850 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1851 host_all_ignored option.
1852
cd9868ec
PH
1853PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1854 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1855 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1856 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1857 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1858 is what is supposed to happen).
1859
ebeaf996
PH
1860PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1861 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1862 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1863 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1864 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1865 uses the Exim user.
1866
2679d413
PH
1867PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1868 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1869 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1870 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1871 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1872 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1873 users.
1874
84024b72
PH
1875PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1876
8005d38e
SC
1877SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1878 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1879 (Jez Hancock).
1880 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1881 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1882
3298c6c6
SC
1883SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1884
a43a27c5
PH
1885PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1886
58eb016e 1887PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1888 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1889 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1890 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1891 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1892 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1893 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1894 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1895 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1896 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1897 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1898
b43a74ea
PH
1899PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1900 advertised in response to EHLO.
1901
b4ed4da0 1902
5dd1517f
PH
1903Exim version 4.66
1904-----------------
1905
1906PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1907 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1908
1909 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1910 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1911
1912 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1913 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1914 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1915
1916 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1917 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1918 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1919 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1920 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1921
1922
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1923Exim version 4.65
1924-----------------
1925
1926TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1927 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1928 versions. (#438)
1929
d6066548
MH
1930MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1931 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1932 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1933
4362ff0d
PH
1934PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1935 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1936 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1937 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1938 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1939 rather than extend the field.
1940
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1942Exim version 4.64
1943-----------------
aa41d2de 1944
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1945TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1946 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1947 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1948 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1949 these files.
1950
1951TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1952 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1953 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1954
1955TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1956 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1957 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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1958
1959TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1960 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1961 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1962 in the field name.
1963
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1964PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1965 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1966 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1967 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1968 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1969 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1970 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1971 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1972 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1973 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1974 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1975
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1976PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1977 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1978
1979PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1980 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1981 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1982 ignores EPIPE as well.
1983
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PH
1984PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1985 (quoted-printable decoding).
1986
cc2ed8f7 1987PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1988 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1989
ddfcd446
PH
1990PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1991
d45b1de8
PH
1992PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1993
1994PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1995
38a0a95f 1996PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1997 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1998
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JJ
1999JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2000 in 4.64-PH/09.
2001
2002JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2003 miscellaneous code fixes
2004
6ea85e9a
PH
2005PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2006 rejections.
2007
26da7e20
PH
2008PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2009 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2010 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2011 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2012 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2013 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2014 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2015 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2016
14aa5a05 2017PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2018 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2019 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2020 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2021 function.
2022 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2023 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2024 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2025 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2026 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2027 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2028 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2029 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2030 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2031
ff75a1f7
PH
2032PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2033 decoding.
2034
e6f6568e
PH
2035PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2036 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2037 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2038 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2039 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2040 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2041 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2042 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2043
d6f6e0dc
PH
2044PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2045 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2046 list.
2047
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PH
2048PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2049 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2050 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2051 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2052 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2053 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2054 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2055 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2056 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2057 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2058 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2059 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2060 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2061
08955dd3
PH
2062PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2063 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2064 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2065 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2066 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2067 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2068 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2069
1eccaa59
PH
2070PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2071 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2072 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2073 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2074 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2075 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2076 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2077 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2078 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2079 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2080
602e59e5
PH
2081PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2082 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2083 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2084 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2085 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2086
411ef850
PH
2087PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2088 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2089 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2090 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2091 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2092 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2093 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2094
7befa435
PH
2095PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2096 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2097 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2098 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2099 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2100 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2101 been verified.
2102
48da4259 2103PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2104 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2105 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2106 and authorization.)
2107
48da4259
PH
2108PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2109 if any retry times were supplied.
2110
d1d5595c
PH
2111PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2112 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2113 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2114
0ef732d9
PH
2115PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2116
328895cc
PH
2117PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2118
fd700877
PH
2119PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2120 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2121 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2122 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2123 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2124 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2125
8dce1a6f
PH
2126PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2127 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2128
17af4a17
PH
2129PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2130 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2131 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2132
2133PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2134 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2135 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2136 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2137 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2138 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2139 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2140 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2141 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2142
2143 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2144 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2145 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2146 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2147 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2148 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2149 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2150 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2151 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2152
2153 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2154 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2155 hammering the server.
2156
c1114884
PH
2157PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2158 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2159
7a0743eb
PH
2160PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2161
0d85fa3f
PH
2162PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2163 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2164 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2165
1bf43b78
PH
2166PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2167 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2168 one case where this was not true.
2169
520de300
PH
2170PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2171 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2172 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2173 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2174 fails.
2175
48c7f9e2
PH
2176PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2177 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2178 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2179 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2180 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2181 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2182 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2183 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2184 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2185 smtp transport.
2186
99ea1c86
PH
2187PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2188 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2189 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2190 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2191
a2042e78
PH
2192PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2193 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2194
4fbcfc2e
PH
2195PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2196 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2197 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2198
aa41d2de
PH
2199PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2200
af561417
PH
2201PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2202
3cc66b45
PH
2203PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2204
194cc0e4
PH
2205PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2206 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2207 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2208 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2209
a401ddaa
PH
2210PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2211 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2212
4e88a19f
PH
2213PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2214 be meaningful with "accept".
2215
d7d7b289
SC
2216SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2217 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2218
2219SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2220 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2221 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2222
2223SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2224 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2225 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2226 there is data to show.
2227 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2228
2229SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2230 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2231 as well as the number of messages.
2232
2233SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2234 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2235 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2236
2237SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2238 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2239 have a flag are now skipped.
2240
2241SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2242 Added the -emptyok flag.
2243
2244SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2245 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2246
0ea2a468
JJ
2247JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2248 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2249 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2250
2251JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2252 match 4.64-PH/13
2253
2254JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2255 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2256
2257JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2258
2259JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2260 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2261
8a10f5a4
PH
2262PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2263
30e18802
PH
2264PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2265 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2266 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2267 contravention of the specifications.
2268
55728a4f
PH
2269PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2270 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2271 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2272
d7837193
PH
2273PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2274 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2275 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2276
87054a31
PH
2277PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2278
ea2c01d2
MH
2279MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2280 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2281 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2282 some point in the past.
2283
e4fa6968
PH
2284PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2285 transport during callout processing was broken.
2286
56f5d9bd
PH
2287PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2288 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2289
922e1c28
PH
2290PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2291 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2292
21eb6e72
PH
2293PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2294 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2295
a0540757
PH
2296PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2297
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2299Exim version 4.63
2300-----------------
2301
2302SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2303 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2304
2305SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2306 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2307 there is data to show.
2308 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2309
2310SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2311 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2312
2b965a65
TF
2313TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2314 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2315
45b91596
PH
2316TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2317 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2318
c59f5781
TF
2319TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2320 submissions from trusted users.
2321
90fc3069
TF
2322TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2323 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2324
6083aca0
TF
2325TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2326 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2327 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2328 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2329 there is now a framework to start from.
2330
765b530f
PH
2331PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2332 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2333 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2334
4e167a8c
PH
2335PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2336
4608d683
PH
2337PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2338
b8dc3e4a
PH
2339PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2340
5418e93b
PH
2341PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2342 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2343 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2344
b4a9bda2
PH
2345PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2346 libradius.
2347
45b91596
PH
2348PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2349 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2350 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2351
5547e2c5
PH
2352PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2353 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2354 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2355 its arguments.
2356
dbcef0ea
PH
2357PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2358 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2359 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2360 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2361 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2362
25257489
PH
2363PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2364 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2365
c816d124
PH
2366PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2367
a9ccd69a
PH
2368PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2369 operations in malware.c.
2370
75fa1910
PH
2371PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2372 signatures.
2373
a7d7aa58
PH
2374PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2375 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2376 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2377 all.
2378
42119b09
PH
2379PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2380 statements to "add_header".
2381
41609df5
PH
2382PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2383 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2384
a5bd321b
PH
2385PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2386 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2387 latter.
2388
e85a7ad5 2389PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2390 so that it is now:
2391
e85a7ad5
PH
2392 ${if or { \
2393 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2394 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2395 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2396 }{no}{yes}}
2397
e85a7ad5
PH
2398 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2399 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2400
d8fe1c03
PH
2401PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2402 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2403
16282d2b
PH
2404PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2405 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2406 any possible encoding problems.
2407
35d40a98
PH
2408PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2409 but not after initializing Perl.
2410
034d99ab
PH
2411PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2412 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2413 apparently, which is not desirable.
2414
6ec97b1b
PH
2415PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2416 queries.
2417
e22ca4ac
JJ
2418JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2419 --not options
2420
2421JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2422
33d73e3b
PH
2423PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2424 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2425 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2426 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2427
9ecb03f3
PH
2428PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2429 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2430 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2431
084efe8d
PH
2432PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2433 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2434 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2435 0.12.
2436
366fc9f0
PH
2437PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2438 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2439 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2440 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2441 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2442
c59f5781 2443
c887c79e
TF
2444Exim version 4.62
2445-----------------
2446
2447TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2448 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2449
1cce3af8
PH
2450PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2451 patch).
2452
afb3eaaf
PH
2453PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2454 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2455 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2456 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2457 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2458 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2459 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2460 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2461 451 error is used.
2462
e173618b
PH
2463PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2464
dd16e114
PH
2465PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2466 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2467 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2468
f7fd3850
PH
2469PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2470 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2471 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2472 odd errors.
2473
d87df92c
PH
2474PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2475 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2476
7e9f683d
PH
2477PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2478 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2479 option (which defaults to 0600).
2480
bfad5236
PH
2481PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2482
01c490df
PH
2483PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2484 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2485 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2486 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2487 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2488 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2489 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2490
d6629cdc
PH
2491PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2492
1cce3af8 2493
214e2000
PH
2494Exim version 4.61
2495-----------------
2496
2497PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2498 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2499 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2500 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2501 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2502 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2503 addresses as local.
2504
f9daeae0
PH
2505PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2506 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2507
7e66e54d
PH
2508PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2509
c8ea1597
PH
2510PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2511 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2512 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2513 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2514 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2515 grumble.
2516
911f6fde
PH
2517PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2518 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2519
47ca6d6c
PH
2520PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2521 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2522 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2523 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2524 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2525
ed0e9820
PH
2526PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2527 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2528 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2529 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2530
eff37e47
PH
2531PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2532 be the same on different OS.
2533
1921d2ea
PH
2534PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2535 testing.
2536
b3f69ca8
JJ
2537JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2538 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2539
2540JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2541 in 4.61-PH/06
2542
424a1c63
PH
2543PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2544 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2545 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2546 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2547 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2548 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2549 bounce message.
2550
7a100415
PH
2551PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2552 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2553 when Exim was called.
2554
19b9dc85
PH
2555PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2556 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2557
309bd837
PH
2558PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2559 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2560 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2561 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2562
59e82a2a
PH
2563PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2564 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2565 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2566 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2567 changes:
2568
2569 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2570 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2571 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2572
2573 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2574 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2575 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2576
9edc04ce
PH
2577PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2578 feature).
2579
1349e1e5
PH
2580PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2581 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2582 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2583 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2584 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2585 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2586 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2587 values from the SRV records were lost.
2588
ea49d0e1
PH
2589PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2590 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2591 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2592
064a94c9
PH
2593PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2594 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2595 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2596
727071f8
PH
2597PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2598 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2599 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2600 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2601 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2602 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2603 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2604 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2605 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2606 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2607
f78eb7c6
PH
2608PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2609 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2610 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2611
21c28500
PH
2612PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2613 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2614
2615PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2616 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2617 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2618 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2619 is given.
2620
1688f43b
PH
2621PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2622 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2623 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2624
2625PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2626 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2627 PH/23 above applies.
2628
9675b384
PH
2629PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2630 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2631 (for which there is an explicit test).
2632
6a3f1455
PH
2633PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2634
dac79d3e
PH
2635PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2636 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2637 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2638 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2639 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2640
5977a0b3
PH
2641PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2642 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2643 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2644 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2645
c91535f3
PH
2646PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2647 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2648 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2649
0d46a8c8
PH
2650PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2651
278c6e6c
PH
2652PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2653
2cbb4081
PH
2654PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2655 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2656 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2657
3eef829e
PH
2658PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2659 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2660 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2661 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2662 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2663
1ab95fa6
PH
2664PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2665 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2666 the message gets confusing).
2667
230205fc
PH
2668PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2669 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2670 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2671 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2672
75e0e026
PH
2673PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2674 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2675 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2676 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2677 same order.
2678
2679PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2680 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2681 the different processes.
2682
145396a6
PH
2683PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2684
3cd34f13
PH
2685PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2686
11121d3d
JJ
2687JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2688 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2689
2690JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2691 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2692
2693JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2694 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2695 messages matching specified criteria.
2696
8def5aaf
PH
2697PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2698
929ba01c
PH
2699PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2700 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2701
2632889e
PH
2702PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2703 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2704 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2705 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2706 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2707 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2708 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2709 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2710 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2711 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2712
944a9c55
PH
2713PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2714 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2715 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2716
4a23603b
PH
2717PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2718
4730f942
PH
2719PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2720 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2721 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2722 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2723 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2724 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2725 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2726 the variable.
2727
30dba1e6
PH
2728PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2729 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2730
382afc6b
PH
2731PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2732
a86229cf
PH
2733PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2734
50c99ba6
PH
2735PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2736
d35e429d
PH
2737PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2738 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2739 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2740 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2741 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2742 size of the count of files.
2743
f90d018c
PH
2744PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2745
75def545
PH
2746PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2747 used in LMTP mode:
2748
2749 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2750 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2751 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2752 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2753
2754 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2755 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2756 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2757
2758PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2759 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2760 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2761 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2762 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2763
c46782ef
PH
2764PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2765 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2766
71fafd95
PH
2767PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2768 will now be deprecated.
2769
2c5db4fd
PH
2770PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2771
9cf6b11a
JJ
2772JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2773 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2774 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2775
2776JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2777 with very large, slow to parse queues
2778
2779JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2780
2781JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2782
898d150f
PH
2783PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2784 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2785 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2786 SMTP output lines.
2787
46218253
PH
2788PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2789 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2790 Sieve code now uses this.
2791
e97957bc
PH
2792PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2793 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2794
81e509d7
PH
2795PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2796 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2797
3d240ff7
PH
2798PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2799
b37c4101
PH
2800PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2801 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2802 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2803 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2804 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2805
79378e0f
PH
2806PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2807 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2808 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2809 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2810
e49c7bb4
PH
2811PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2812
d114ec46
PH
2813PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2814
f3d7df6c
PH
2815PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2816 is preferred over IPv4.
2817
715ab376
PH
2818PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2819 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2820 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2821 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2822 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2823 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2824 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2825
6b31b150
PH
2826PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2827 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2828 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2829
2830PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2831
d515a917
PH
2832PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2833 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2834 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2835 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2836 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2837 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2838 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2839 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2840 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2841 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2842 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2843
9b8fadde
PH
2844PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2845 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2846 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2847
214e2000 2848
5de37277
PH
2849Exim version 4.60
2850-----------------
2851
cc38ddbf
PH
2852PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2853
2854 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2855 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2856
2857 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2858 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2859 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2860
72fdd6ae
PH
2861PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2862
2863 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2864 not a single digit.
2865
2866 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2867 string.
2868
2869 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2870 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2871 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2872 silly things.
2873
2874 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2875 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2876
2877 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2878 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2879
cb741023
PH
2880PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2881 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2882 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2883
f174f16e
PH
2884PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2885 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2886
c25242d7
PH
2887PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2888 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2889
2890 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2891
2892 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2893 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2894 this:
2895
2896 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2897
82c19f95
PH
2898PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2899 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2900 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2901 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2902 identical. For example:
2903
2904 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2905
2906 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2907 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2908 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2909
d7ffbc12
PH
2910PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2911 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2912 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2913 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2914
9f526266
PH
2915PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2916 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2917 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2918 message.
2919
87fcc8b9
PH
2920PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2921
2922 o fixes some comments
2923 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2924 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2925 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2926 and documents the missing references header update
2927
2928 and most important:
2929
2930 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2931 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2932 result)
2933
456682f5
PH
2934PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2935 Electronic Mail") by including:
2936
2937 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2938
2939 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2940 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2941 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2942 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2943 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2944
2945 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2946
2947 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2948
2949 The auto-replied keyword:
2950
2951 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2952 message by an automatic process,
2953
2954 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2955
2956 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2957 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2958
2959 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2960 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2961 other messages.
2962
3e46c1aa
PH
2963PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2964 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2965
49826d12
PH
2966PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2967
eba0c039
PH
2968PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2969 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2970 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2971
a0d6ba8a
PH
2972PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2973 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2974 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2975
f0917727
PH
2976PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2977 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2978 and treats the condition as false.
2979
096fee00
PH
2980PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2981
024bd3c2
PH
2982PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2983 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2984 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2985 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2986 not changing the active code.
2987
2988 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2989 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2990
2991 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2992 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2993
df199fec
PH
2994PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2995 (Bugzilla #53).
2996
d27f1df3
PH
2997PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2998 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2999 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3000 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3001 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3002 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3003 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3004 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3005 the text comparison.
3006
96776534
PH
3007PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3008 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3009 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3010 The same fix has been applied.
3011
5de37277 3012
9a799bc0
PH
3013Exim version 4.54
3014-----------------
3015
3016PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3017 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3018 It now does.
3019
99a4b039
PH
3020PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3021 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3022
3023PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3024
4b233853
PH
3025PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3026 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3027 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3028 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3029 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3030
8857ccfd
PH
3031TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3032 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3033 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3034 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3035 or /domain=).
3036
433a2980
PH
3037PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3038 testing suite.
3039
3e46c1aa 3040
9a799bc0 3041
e3a311ba
TK
3042Exim version 4.53
3043-----------------
3044
3045TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3046 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3047
13b685f9
PH
3048PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3049
395ff96d
PH
3050PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3051
5b68f6e4
PH
3052PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3053 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3054 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3055
1ab52c69
PH
3056PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3057 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3058 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3059
b07e6aa3
PH
3060PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3061 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3062 operating systems.
3063
254e032f
PH
3064PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3065 ${stat: expansion item.
3066
3af76a81
PH
3067PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3068 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3069
2548ba04
PH
3070PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3071 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3072 file for comments.
3073
b6c6011d
PH
3074PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3075
cf39cf57
PH
3076PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3077 setting.
3078
f1513293
PH
3079PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3080 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3081
727549a4
PH
3082TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3083
af46795e
PH
3084PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3085 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3086 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3087 the end of the subprocess.
3088
d7b47fd0
PH
3089PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3090 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3091 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3092 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3093 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3094
ee744174
JJ
3095JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3096
b582ab87
PH
3097TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3098
41a13e0a
PH
3099PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3100 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3101
f625cc5a
PH
3102PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3103
3104PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3105
21f7af35
PH
3106PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3107 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3108 HP-UX compiler.
3109
31480e42
PH
3110PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3111
2d280592
PH
3112PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3113 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3114 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3115
7cd1141b
PH
3116PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3117 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3118
3119PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3120 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3121
750af86e
PH
3122PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3123 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3124
3125 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3126 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3127
3128 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3129 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3130 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3131 contributed by a Radius user.
3132
3133PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3134 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3135
4304270b
TK
3136TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3137 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3138
750af86e
PH
3139PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3140 available.
3141
64ffc24f
PH
3142PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3143 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3144 received.
3145
5dd9625b
PH
3146PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3147 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3148 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3149 header lines when this was not necessary.
3150
5591031b
PH
3151PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3152
ba18e66a
PH
3153PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3154 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3155 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3156 exists".
3157
9cec981f
PH
3158PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3159 -bV or -d is used.
3160
aa2b5c79
PH
3161PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3162 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3163 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3164 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3165
48a53b7f
PH
3166PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3167
1c59d63b
PH
3168PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3169
671012da
TK
3170TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3171
1509d3a8
PH
3172PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3173
3174PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3175 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3176 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3177 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3178 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3179 settings.
3180
3181PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3182
2fe1a124
PH
3183PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3184 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3185 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3186 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3187 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3188 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3189 which is clearly wrong.
3190
8800895a
PH
3191PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3192
ccfdb010
PH
3193PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3194 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3195 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3196 subsequently added.
3197
1130bfb0
PH
3198PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3199 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3200
ebcb507f
PH
3201PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3202
c35e155c
PH
3203PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3204 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3205
95d1f782
PH
3206PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3207 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3208
fd6de02e
PH
3209PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3210 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3211
58de37c5
PH
3212PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3213 recipients, not senders.
3214
261cf466
TF
3215TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3216 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3217
3ee512ff
PH
3218PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3219
e08c430f
PH
3220PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3221
bef5a11f
PH
3222PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3223 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3224 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3225 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3226
7546de58
TF
3227TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3228
e5d5a95f
TF
3229TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3230 clock is set back in time.
3231
2e88a017
TF
3232TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3233 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3234
a5f65aa4
TF
3235TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3236 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3237
e7726cbf
PH
3238PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3239 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3240 (see PH/47 above).
3241
a7fdad5b
TF
3242TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3243 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3244 header rewrites.
3245
6af56900
PH
3246PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3247 type ("H").
3248
0925ede6
PH
3249PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3250
66afa403
TF
3251TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3252 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3253 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3254
0154e85a
TF
3255TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3256 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3257 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3258 helo verification defer as a failure.
3259
16f12c76
PH
3260PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3261 actual error message.
3262
bbe902f0 3263
e5a9dba6
PH
3264Exim version 4.52
3265-----------------
3266
3267TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3268
22c3b60b
PH
3269PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3270 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3271 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3272 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3273
06a9b4b5
PH
3274TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3275
c1ac6996
PH
3276PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3277 can still be requested.
3278
9c7a242c
PH
3279PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3280 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3281 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3282 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3283
87ba3f5f
PH
3284TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3285 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3286 circumstances, but probably never did.
3287
3288PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3289 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3290 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3291 in the header line.
3292
29aba418
TF
3293TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3294
fe0dab11
TF
3295TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3296 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3297
11d337a4
TK
3298TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3299
3300TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3301
415c8f3b
PH
3302PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3303 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3304 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3305 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3306 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3307 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3308
958541e9
PH
3309PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3310 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3311 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3312 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3313 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3314 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3315
c206415f
TK
3316TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3317 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3318
2a4be8f9
PH
3319PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3320 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3321
1cba11c5
SC
3322SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3323 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3324
3325SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3326
3327SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3328
3329SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3330
3331SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3332
3333SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3334
3335SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3336
1005d00e
TK
3337TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3338
3339TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3340 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3341 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3342
3343TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3344 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3345 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3346 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3347
9b4768fa
PH
3348PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3349 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3350 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3351
3352PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3353 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3354 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3355 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3356
0d7eb84a
PH
3357PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3358 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3359 to be made).
3360
3361PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3362 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3363 should work with maildirs and everything.
3364
40727bee
TK
3365TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3366 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3367
554d2369
TF
3368TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3369 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3370
1f922db1
PH
3371PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3372 function for BDB 4.3.
3373
ef213c3b
PH
3374PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3375
8ac170f3
PH
3376PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3377 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3378 involved.
3379
b1c749bb
PH
3380PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3381 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3382 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3383 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3384 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3385 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3386
4aac9b49
PH
3387PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3388 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3389 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3390 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3391 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3392 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3393 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3394 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3395
294520c8
TK
3396TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3397 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3398 details.
3399
5bd022fe
PH
3400PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3401 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3402
90e9ce59
PH
3403PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3404 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3405 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3406 test. It is now used for both.
3407
5ea81592
PH
3408PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3409 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3410 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3411 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3412 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3413 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3414
c6c2dc1d
PH
3415PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3416 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3417 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3418 string_vformat().
3419
fffffe4c
PH
3420PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3421 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3422 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3423
9a26b6b2
PH
3424PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3425 experimental DomainKeys support:
3426
3427 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3428 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3429 the control was given.
3430
3431 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3432
4aee0225
PH
3433PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3434
32d668a5
PH
3435PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3436
8187c3f3
PH
3437PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3438 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3439 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3440 db.h files).
3441
ff790e47 3442PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3443 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3444 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3445 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3446 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3447 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3448 course.
ff790e47 3449
5417f6d1
PH
3450PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3451 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3452 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3453 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3454 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3455 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3456
59cf8544
PH
3457PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3458 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3459 do -d+all out of habit.
3460
e7ad8a65
PH
3461PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3462 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3463 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3464
ade42478
PH
3465PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3466 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3467 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3468 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3469 record types that Exim uses.
3470
182ad5cf
PH
3471PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3472 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3473 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3474 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3475 non-existent file that was broken.
3476
b0d9fc80
TK
3477TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3478 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3479
3480TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3481 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3482 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3483
3484TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3485
47c7a64a
PH
3486PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3487 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3488 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3489 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3490 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3491 same time.
3492
a388bce4
SC
3493SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3494 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3495 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3496 at a slight CPU cost.
3497
3498SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3499 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3500
3501SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3502 by Marc Sherman.
3503
0793e4ed
SC
3504SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3505
c58b88df
PH
3506PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3507 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3508
e7ad8a65 3509
7982096b
PH
3510Exim version 4.51
3511-----------------
3512
1a46a8c5
PH
3513TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3514 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3515
2f079f46 3516TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3517
3518TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3519
3520PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3521 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3522
3523PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3524 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3525 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3526 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3527 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3528 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3529 file.
3530
3531PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3532 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3533 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3534 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3535 these two options.
3536
3537PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3538 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3539 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3540 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3541 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3542 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3543 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3544 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3545
3546PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3547 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3548
3549PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3550 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3551 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3552 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3553 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3554 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3555
3556PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3557 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3558 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3559 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3560
3561PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3562 Finch).
3563
3564PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3565 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3566
49c2d5ea
PH
3567PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3568 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3569 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3570 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3571 message.
49c2d5ea 3572
bf759a8b
PH
3573PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3574
83364d30
PH
3575PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3576 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3577
7999bbd7
PH
3578PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3579 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3580 to what was transported.)
3581
7dbf77c9
PH
3582TF/01 Added $received_time.
3583
74e0617f
PH
3584PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3585 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3586 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3587 spamd_address settings.
3588
2f079f46
PH
3589PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3590 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3591 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3592 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3593 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3594
8c841523
PH
3595PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3596
7766a4f0
PH
3597PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3598 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3599 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3600 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3601 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3602
8b417f2c
PH
3603PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3604 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3605
901f42cb
PH
3606PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3607 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3608 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3609 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3610 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3611 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3612 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3613 for failure.
3614
f9b9210e
PH
3615PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3616 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3617 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3618 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3619 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3620 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3621 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3622 "input=".
3623
54cdb463
PH
3624PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3625
cf00dad6
PH
3626PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3627 driver and ACL definitions.
3628
acb1b346
PH
3629PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3630 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3631
c5ddb310
PH
3632PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3633 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3634 understands it better than I do:
3635
3636 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3637 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3638
3639 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3640 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3641 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3642 => three warnings about OTP not working
3643 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3644
3645 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3646 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3647 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3648 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3649 for each call.)
3650 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3651 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3652
3653 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3654 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3655 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3656
31619da6
PH
3657PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3658 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3659 specified.
3660
bebaf0fc
PH
3661PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3662 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3663 "Linux".
3664
475fe28a
PH
3665PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3666 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3667 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3668
3669 warn !verify = sender
3670 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3671
3672 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3673 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3674
7e8bec7a
PH
3675PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3676
3677 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3678 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3679
3680 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3681 nomenclature these days.)
3682
e4a89c47
PH
3683PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3684 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3685
5ca2a9a1
PH
3686PH/30 In these circumstances:
3687 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3688 . First host does not offer TLS;
3689 . First host accepts first address;
3690 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3691 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3692 . Second host accepts second address.
3693 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3694 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3695 address.
7e8bec7a 3696
c688b954
PH
3697PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3698 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3699 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3700 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3701 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3702
fed77020
PH
3703PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3704 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3705
7fe1560f
PH
3706PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3707 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3708
ebb6e6d5
PH
3709PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3710 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3711 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3712
9c4e8f60
PH
3713PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3714 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3715 overlooked.
3716
3717PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3718
d7174846
PH
3719PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3720 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3721 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3722 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3723 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3724 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3725 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3726
3727 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3728 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3729 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3730 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3731 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3732
3733 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3734 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3735 routed further.
3736
cfe75fc3
PH
3737PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3738 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3739 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3740 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3741 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3742 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3743
be22d70e
PH
3744PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3745
0612b098
PH
3746PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3747 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3748 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3749 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3750 printable escape sequences.
3751
2e0c1448
PH
3752PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3753 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3754 body only.
3755
447d236c
PH
3756PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3757 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3758 are as follows:
3759
3760 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3761 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3762 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3763 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3764 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3765
3766 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3767 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3768 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3769
d20976dc
PH
3770PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3771
f656d135
PH
3772PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3773 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3774 play with."
3775
2e2a30b4
PH
3776PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3777 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3778 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3779 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3780 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3781 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3782 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3783 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3784 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3785 the log output.
3786
9176e9f0
PH
3787PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3788 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3789 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3790 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3791 "make".
3792
7982096b 3793
bbe902f0
PH
3794A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3795----------------------------------------
3796
3797Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3798changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3799needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3800in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3801that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3802release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3803from 4.43.
3804
3805I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
38064.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3807those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3808historical information.
3809
3810
f7b63901 3811Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3812-----------------
3813
5fe762f6
PH
3814 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3815
139059f6 3816 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3817 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3818
7086e875
PH
3819 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3820 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3821 place.
3822
35af9f61
PH
3823 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3824 filter fails to execute.
3825
b668c215
PH
3826 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3827 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3828 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3829 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3830 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3831
a494b1e1
PH
3832 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3833
3834 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3835 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3836 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3837 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3838
c5fcb476
PH
3839 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3840 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3841 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3842 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3843 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3844
69358f02
PH
3845 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3846
5be20824
PH
384710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3848
eb2c0248
PH
384911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3850 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3851 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3852 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3853
2a3eea10
PH
385412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3855 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3856 sender verification.
3857
385813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3859 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3860
23c7ff99
PH
386114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3862
4deaf07d
PH
386315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3864 connection timeout.
3865
926e1192
PH
386616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3867 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3868
650edc6f
PH
386917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3870 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3871
2c7db3f5
PH
387218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3873 information about exactly what failed.
3874
3d235903
PH
387519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3876
7c7ad977
PH
387720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3878 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3879 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3880
981756db
PH
388121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3882 It is now set to "smtps".
3883
d4eb88df
PH
388422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3885 ignore_target_hosts.
3886
388723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3888 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3889 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3890 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3891 "[x.x.x.x]".
3892
7d468ab8
PH
389324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3894 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3895 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3896
389725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3898 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3899 wake it up if nothing else does.
3900
62c0818f
PH
390126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3902 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3903 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3904 end up negative.
3905
26034054
PH
390627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3907 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3908
af66f652
PH
390928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3910
90af77f4
PH
391129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3912 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3913 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3914 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3915 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3916 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3917 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3918 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3919
d8ef3577
PH
392030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3921 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3922 than one IP address.
3923
5cb8cbc6
PH
392431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3925 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3926 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3927 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3928
14702f5b
PH
392932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3930 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3931 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3932 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3933 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3934 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3935
063b1e99
PH
393633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3937 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3938 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3939 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3940
652e1b65
PH
394134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3942 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3943 respected.
3944
6f0c9a4f
PH
394535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3946 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3947 $sender_host_address.
3948
33397d19
PH
394936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3950 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3951 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3952 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3953 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3954 very small.
3955
7bb56e1f
PH
395637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3957
3958 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3959 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3960
ea3bc19b
PH
3961 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3962 just the host names, not the priorities.
3963
3964 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3965 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3966 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3967
ea3bc19b 3968 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3969 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3970
0bcb2a0e
PH
397138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3972 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3973 domain.
3974
2ac0e484
PH
397539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3976
4e1fde53
PH
397740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3978 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3979
de365ded
PH
398041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3981 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3982 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3983
f05da2e8
PH
398442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3985
d6453af2
PH
398643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3987
f7b63901
PH
398844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3989
399045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3991 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3992 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3993 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3994 because the tests only now provoked it.
3995
a444213a
PH
399646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3997 (this can affect the format of dates).
3998
0ec020ea
PH
399947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4000 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4001 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4002 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4003
b1206957
PH
400448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4005
400649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4007 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4008 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4009 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4010
26dd5a95
PH
401150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4012 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4013 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4014
343b2385
PH
401551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4016 autoreply.
4017
1c5466b9
PH
401852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4019 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4020 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4021 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4022 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4023 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4024 is going on).
4025
55ee9ee3
PH
402653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4027 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4028 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4029 the line.
4030
d38f8232
PH
403154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4032 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4033 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4034
4035 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4036 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4037 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4038 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4039 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4040 so I produce this patch..."
4041
3295e65b
PH
4042 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4043 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4044 is not defined.
4045
7102e136
PH
404655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4047 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4048 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4049 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4050 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4051
3ca0ba97
PH
405256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4053
c2bcbe20
PH
405457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4055 long debug lines gets shown.
4056
18ce445d
PH
405758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4058 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4059
1f5b4c3d
PH
406059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4061
4062 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4063 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4064 of $primary_hostname.
4065
b975ba52
PH
406660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4067 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4068 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4069 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4070 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4071 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4072 by change 4.50/55 above.
4073
4074 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4075 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4076 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4077 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4078 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4079 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4080 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4081
408261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4083 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4084 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4085 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4086
17ffcae7
PH
408762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4088 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4089
d95f9fdb
PH
409063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4091 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4092 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4093 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4094 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4095
86b8287f
PH
409664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4097 This has been fixed.
4098
60dc5e56
PH
409965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4100 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4101 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4102 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4103 the caching.)
4104
533244af
PH
410566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4106
a5a28604
PH
410767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4108 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4109 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4110 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4111
7e634d24
PH
411268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4113 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4114
3e11c26b
PH
411569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4116 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4117 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4118
6729cf78
PH
411970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4120 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4121 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4122 message there.
4123
00f00ca5
PH
412471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4125 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4126 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4127
c9bdd01c
PH
412872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4129 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4130 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4131 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4132
d43194df
PH
413373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4134 during host lookups.
4135
fe5b5d0b
PH
413674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4137 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4138
4139 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4140
76a2d7ba
PH
414175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4142 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4143 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4144 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4145 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4146 background.
4147
414876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4149 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4150
04f7d5b9
PH
415177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4152 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4153 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4154
bc60667e
PH
415578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4156
bb6e88ff
PH
415779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4158 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4159 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4160 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4161 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4162 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4163 process earlier.
4164
1e70f85b
PH
416580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4166 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4167 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4168 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4169 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4170
417181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4172 tables).
4173
4e01f9d6
PH
417482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4175
1ee1cef2
PH
417683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4177 "vacation" handling.
4178
6e2b4ccc
PH
417984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4180 OS variants using glibc.
4181
8e669ac1
PH
418285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4183
495ae4b0 4184
bbe902f0
PH
4185----------------------------------------------------
4186See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4187----------------------------------------------------
4188
4189
4190Exim version 4.44
4191-----------------
4192
4193 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4194 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4195 transport
4196
4197 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4198 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4199 place.
4200
4201 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4202 filter fails to execute.
4203
4204 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4205 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4206 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4207 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4208 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4209
4210 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4211 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4212 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4213 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4214
4215 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4216 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4217 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4218 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4219 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4220
4221 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4222
4223 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4224 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4225 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4226 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4227
4228 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4229 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4230 sender verification.
4231
423210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4233 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4234
423511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4236 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4237
423812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4239 ignore_target_hosts.
4240
424113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4242 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4243 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4244 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4245 "[x.x.x.x]".
4246
424714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4248 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4249 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4250
425115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4252 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4253 wake it up if nothing else does.
4254
425516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4256 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4257 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4258 end up negative.
4259
426017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4261 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4262
ea3a6f44 426318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4264
426519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4266 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4267 empty pattern.
4268
426920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4270 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4271 one IP address.
4272
ea3a6f44
NM
427321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4274 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4275 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4276 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4277 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4278 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4279
ea3a6f44
NM
428022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4281 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4282 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4283
428423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4285 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4286 $sender_host_address.
4287
428824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4289
ea3a6f44
NM
429025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4291 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4292 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4293
429426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4295 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4296
ea3a6f44
NM
429727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4298 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4299
ea3a6f44
NM
430028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4301 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4302 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4303 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4304
430529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4306 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4307 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4308
ea3a6f44
NM
430930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4310 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4311 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4312 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4313
ea3a6f44
NM
431431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4315 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4316 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4317
ea3a6f44
NM
431831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4319 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4320
ea3a6f44
NM
432132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4322 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4323 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4324 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4325 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4326 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4327 is going on).
bbe902f0 4328
ea3a6f44
NM
432933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4330 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4331 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4332 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4333 CAN-2005-0021
4334
ea3a6f44
NM
433534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4336 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4337 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4338 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4339 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4340 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4341 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4342
4343 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4344 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4345 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4346 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4347 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4348 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4349 CAN-2005-0021
4350
ea3a6f44
NM
435135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4352 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4353 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4354 CAN-2005-0022
4355
ea3a6f44
NM
435636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4357 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4358 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4359 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4360 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4361
ea3a6f44
NM
436237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4363 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4364 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4365 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4366 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4367
ea3a6f44
NM
436838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4369 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4370 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4371 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4372 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4373
4374
495ae4b0
PH
4375Exim version 4.43
4376-----------------
4377
4378 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4379 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4380 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4381 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4382 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4383 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4384 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4385
4386 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4387 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4388 the delivery.
4389
4390 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4391
4392 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4393
4394 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4395 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4396 to local_scan().
4397
4398 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4399 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4400 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4401 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4402 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4403
4404 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4405 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4406
4407 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4408
4409 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4410
441110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4412 header_sender only.
4413
441411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4415 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4416
441712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4418 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4419 affecting debugging statements).
4420
442113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4422
442314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4424 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4425 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4426 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4427 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4428 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4429 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4430 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4431 after the received time, and all would be well.
4432
443315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4434 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4435 condition in an expansion string.
4436
443716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4438
443917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4440 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4441 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4442 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4443 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4444 job under whatever limits there are.
4445
444618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4447
444819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4449 space).
4450
445120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4452 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4453 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4454 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4455 return path is set.
4456
445721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4458 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4459 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4460 binary data in such strings.
4461
446222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4463
446423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4465 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4466 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4467 failure, which is pointless.
4468
446924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4470
447125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4472
447326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4474 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4475 Sender: header lines.
4476
447727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4478 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4479 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4480
448128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4482 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4483 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4484 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4485 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4486 happens.
4487
448829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4489 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4490 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4491 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4492 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4493
449430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4495 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4496 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4497 1024.
4498
449931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4500 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4501
450232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4503 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4504
450533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4506
450732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4508
450933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4510
451134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4512 syntax error.
4513
451435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4515
451636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4517
451837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4519 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4520 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4521 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4522
452338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4524 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4525
4526
4527Exim version 4.42
4528-----------------
4529
4530 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4531 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4532 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4533 it was not quoted.
4534 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4535 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4536 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4537 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4538 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4539 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4540
4541 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4542 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4543 verification failure".
4544
4545 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4546 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4547 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4548 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4549
4550 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4551 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4552 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4553 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4554 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4555 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4556 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4557 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4558 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4559 treated as a timeout.
4560
4561 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4562 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4563 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4564 not set for Exim filters).
4565
4566 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4567 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4568 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4569
4570 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4571
4572 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4573 try to make them clearer.
4574
4575 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4576 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4577
4578 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4579
4580 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4581
458210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4583 only the Cygwin environment.
4584
458511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4586 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4587 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4588 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4589 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4590
459112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4592 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4593 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4594 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4595 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4596 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4597 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4598
459913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4600 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4601
460214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4603
4604 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4605 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4606 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4607
4608 To: susanne@some.where
4609
4610 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4611 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4612 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4613 of addresses in From: header lines).
4614
4615 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4616 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4617 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4618
4619 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4620 treated as non-personal.
4621
4622 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4623 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4624
462515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4626
462716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4628
462917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4630 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4631 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4632
463318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4634 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4635
463619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4637 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4638 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4639 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4640 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4641 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4642
464320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4644 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4645 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4646 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4647 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4648 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4649 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4650 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4651
4652 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4653
465421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4655 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4656
465722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4658 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4659 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4660
466123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4662 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4663
466424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4665 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4666 rather than long int.
4667
466825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4669
467026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4671
4672
4673Exim version 4.41
4674-----------------
4675
4676 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4677 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4678 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4679 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4680 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4681 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4682
4683
4684Exim version 4.40
4685-----------------
4686
4687 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4688 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4689
4690 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4691 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4692 socklen_t is defined.
4693
4694 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4695 always exist.
4696
4697 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4698 configured.
4699
4700 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4701 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4702 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4703 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4704 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4705
4706 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4707 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4708 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4709 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4710
4711 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4712 of flapping under certain conditions.
4713
4714 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4715 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4716 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4717
4718 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4719
472010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4721
472211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4723 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4724 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4725 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4726
472712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4728 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4729 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4730 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4731 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4732 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4733 preserved with the message after it was received.
4734
473513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4736 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4737 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4738 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4739 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4740 test suite worked just fine.
4741
474214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4743 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4744 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4745
474615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4747 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4748 string.
4749
475016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4751 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4752 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4753 does not fully solve it.
4754
475517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4756 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4757 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4758 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4759 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4760
476118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4762 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4763 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4764
476519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4766 string, for example:
4767
4768 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4769
4770 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4771 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4772 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4773 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4774 the routers could not see them.
4775
477620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4777 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4778
477921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4780 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4781 output).
4782
478322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4784 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4785 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4786 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4787 that needed quoting.
4788
478923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4790 was not being matched caselessly.
4791
479224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4793 backslashes.
4794
479525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4796 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4797 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4798 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4799 when use_sender is false.
4800
480126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4802
480327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4804
480528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4806
480729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4808 the configuration file.
4809
481030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4811 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4812
481331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4814
481532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4816 bytes in the message body.
4817
481833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4819 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4820 delivery.
4821
482234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4823
482435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4825
482636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4827 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4828 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4829 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4830 another IP address.
4831
4832
4833Exim version 4.34
4834-----------------
4835
4836 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4837 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4838
4839 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4840 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4841 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4842 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4843 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4844
4845 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4846 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4847
4848 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4849 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4850 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4851
4852 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4853 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4854 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4855
4856 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4857 for routers.
4858
4859 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4860 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4861 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4862 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4863 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4864 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4865 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4866
4867
4868Exim version 4.33
4869-----------------
4870
4871 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4872 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4873 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4874 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4875 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4876 default (and expected) setting.
4877
4878 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4879 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4880 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4881 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4882
4883 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4884 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4885
4886 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4887 in domain lists.
4888
4889 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4890 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4891 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4892 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4893 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4894 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4895
4896 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4897 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4898 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4899
4900 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4901 part (NOT match_host).
4902
4903 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4904
4905 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4906 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4907 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4908 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4909 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4910 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4911 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4912 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4913 the same named file.
4914
491510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4916 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4917 when Exim is built.
4918
491911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4920 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4921 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4922 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4923 a host name.
4924
492512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4926 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4927 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4928
492913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4930
493114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4932
493315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4934
493516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4936 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4937
493817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4939 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4940 before starting the TLS session.
4941
494218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4943
494419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4945 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4946
494720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4948 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4949 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4950 colon in the middle).
4951
4952
4953Exim version 4.32
4954-----------------
4955
4956 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4957 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4958 multiple configurations are in use.
4959
4960 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4961 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4962 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4963 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4964 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4965 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4966
4967 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4968 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4969
4970 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4971 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4972 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4973
4974 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4975 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4976 occurs.
4977
4978 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4979 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4980
4981 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4982
4983 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4984 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4985
4986 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4987
4988 -prval:sval
4989
4990 is equivalent to
4991
4992 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4993
4994 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4995 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4996 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4997 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4998 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4999
500010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5001 Exim's behaviour:
5002
5003 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5004 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5005 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5006 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5007 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5008 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5009
5010 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5011 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5012 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5013 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5014 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5015 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5016 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5017 string.
5018
5019 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5020 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5021 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5022 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5023 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5024
502511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5026
502712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5028 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5029 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5030
503113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5032
503314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5034 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5035 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5036 information.
5037
503815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5039 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5040
504116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5042 Three changes have been made:
5043
5044 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5045 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5046 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5047 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5048 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5049
5050 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5051 been restored.
5052
5053 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5054 the modified behaviour.
5055
5056
5057Exim version 4.31
5058-----------------
5059
5060 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5061 Larry Rosenman.
5062
5063 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5064 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5065
5066 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5067 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5068 try to track down a specific problem.
5069
5070 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5071 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5072 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5073
5074 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5075 warning.
5076
5077 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5078 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5079 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5080 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5081 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5082 some earlier ones do not.
5083
5084 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5085
5086 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5087 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5088 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5089 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5090 address literals are enabled, of course).
5091
5092 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5093
509410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5095 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5096 by a command such as
5097
5098 exim -f "" ...
5099
5100 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5101
510211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5103
510412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5105 remained set. It is now erased.
5106
510713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5108 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5109
511014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5111 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5112 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5113 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5114 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5115 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5116 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5117 appropriate error code.
5118
511915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5120 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5121 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5122 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5123 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5124 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5125
512616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5127 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5128 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5129
513017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5131 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5132 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5133 terminate the header.
5134
513518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5136 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5137 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5138
513919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5140 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5141 (4.30/29). In particular:
5142
5143 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5144 imposed.
5145
5146 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5147 to write a maildirsize file.
5148
5149 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5150 the transport, the new value overrides.
5151
5152 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5153 count.
5154
515520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5156 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5157 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5158 space or a tab.
5159
516021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5161 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5162 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5163 the fallback hosts.
5164
516522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5166 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5167 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5168
516923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5170 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5171 using a union.
5172
517324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5174 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5175 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5176
517725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5178
517926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5180
518127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5182
518328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5184 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5185 become corrupted.
5186
518729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5188 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5189 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5190 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5191 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5192 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5193 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5194 too great.
5195
519630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5197 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5198 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5199 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5200 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5201 incorrectly.
5202
520331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5204 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5205 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5206 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5207 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5208 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5209 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5210 cached value only when the same options are set.
5211
521232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5213
521433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5215 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5216 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5217 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5218 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5219
522034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5221 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5222 it is clearly obsolete.
5223
522435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5225 transport.
5226
522736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5228 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5229 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5230 times.
5231
523237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5233 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5234 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5235 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5236 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5237
523838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5239 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5240 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5241 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5242
524339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5244
5245 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5246
5247 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5248 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5249 2^31.
5250
525140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5252 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5253 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5254 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5255 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5256 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5257 $localpart_data.
5258
525941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5260 with the -f command-line option.
5261
526242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5263 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5264 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5265 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5266 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5267 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5268
526943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5270 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5271 line.
5272
527344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5274 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5275 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5276 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5277 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5278 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5279 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5280 buffer is too small.
5281
528245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5283 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5284
528546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5286 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5287 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5288 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5289 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5290 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5291 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5292 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5293 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5294
529547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5296 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5297 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5298
529948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5300 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5301 ACL").
5302
530349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5304 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5305 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5306 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5307 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5308
530950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5310 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5311 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5312 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5313 is set.
5314
531551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5316
531752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5318
531953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5320 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5321
532254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5323 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5324 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5325
532655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5327 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5328 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5329 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5330 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5331
533256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5333 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5334 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5335 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5336 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5337 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5338 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5339
534057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5341 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5342 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5343 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5344 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5345 the test of how many are available.
5346
534758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5348 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5349 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5350 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5351 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5352 new message is started.
5353
535459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5355 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5356
535760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5358 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5359
536061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5361 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5362 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5363 is no long logged.
5364
536562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5366 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5367 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5368 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5369 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5370 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5371 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5372
537363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5374 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5375 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5376 interpreted as octal.
5377
537864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5379 setting.
5380
538165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5382 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5383 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5384 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5385 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5386 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5387
538866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5389 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5390 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5391 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5392
5393 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5394 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5395 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5396 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5397
5398 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5399 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5400 is a bug fix.
5401
5402 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5403 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5404
540567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5406
540768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5408 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5409 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5410 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5411
541269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5413 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5414 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5415 supplied", which is not helpful.
5416
541770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5418 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5419 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5420
542171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5422 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5423 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5424 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5425 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5426 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5427 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5428 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5429
543072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5431 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5432 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5433 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5434 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5435
543673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5437 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5438 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5439 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5440 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5441 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5442
544374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5444 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5445 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5446
544775. Added write_rejectlog option.
5448
544976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5450 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5451 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5452 variables.
5453
545477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5455
545678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5457 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5458 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5459 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5460 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5461 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5462 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5463 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5464
546579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5466 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5467 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5468 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5469 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5470
547180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5472 Haardt.
5473
547481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5475 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5476 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5477 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5478 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5479 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5480 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5481 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5482 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5483
5484
5485Exim version 4.30
5486-----------------
5487
5488 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5489 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5490 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5491
5492 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5493 fixed.
5494
5495 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5496 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5497 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5498
5499 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5500 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5501 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5502 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5503 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5504 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5505
5506 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5507 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5508 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5509 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5510 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5511 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5512 the Exim test suite.
5513
5514 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5515 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5516 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5517 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5518
5519 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5520 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5521 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5522 specify it in this variable.
5523
5524 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5525 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5526 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5527 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5528
5529 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5530 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5531 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5532 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5533
5534 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5535 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5536 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5537 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5538 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5539
5540 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5541
554210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5543 they are logged.
5544
554511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5546 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5547 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5548 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5549 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5550
555112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5552 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5553
555413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5555 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5556 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5557 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5558 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5559
556014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5561 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5562
556315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5564 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5565 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5566
556716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5568 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5569
557017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5571 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5572
557318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5574 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5575 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5576
557719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5578 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5579
558020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5581 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5582 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5583 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5584
558521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5586
558722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5588 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5589 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5590 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5591
559223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5593
559424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5595 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5596
559725. Added .include_if_exists.
5598
559926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5600 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5601 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5602 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5603 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5604 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5605
560627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5607
560828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5609 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5610 this.
5611
561229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5613
561430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5615 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5616
5617 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5618 550 Sender verify failed
5619
5620 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5621 the final line of the response.
5622
562331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5624 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5625 all other user lookups.
5626
562732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5628 delivery time.
5629
563033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5631 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5632 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5633 result into an int without checking.
5634
563534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5636 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5637 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5638
563935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5640 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5641 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5642 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5643
564436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5645 correctly.
5646
564737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5648 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5649
565038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5651 to the empty sender.
5652
565339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5654 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5655 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5656 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5657 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5658 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5659 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5660 panic log.
5661
566240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5663 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5664 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5665 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5666 used.
5667
566841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5669 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5670
567142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5672 timestamps.
5673
567443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5675 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5676
567744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5678
567945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5680 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5681 logs.
5682
568346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5684 as soon as it is encountered.
5685
568647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5687
568848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5689 rewritten to "<>".
5690
569149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5692 recognizes a tab character.
5693
569450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5695 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5696 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5697 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5698
569951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5700
570152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5702 crash.
5703
570453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5705
570654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5707
570855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5709 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5710 2822.
5711
571256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5713 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5714 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5715 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5716 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5717
571857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5719 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5720
572158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5722 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5723 list (.included file names were always shown).
5724
572559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5726 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5727 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5728 root at that time.
5729
573060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5731 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5732
573361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5734
573562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5736
573763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5738
573964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5740 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5741 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5742 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5743 failures to open the logs.
5744
574565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5746 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5747 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5748 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5749 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5750 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5751 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5752
5753
5754Exim version 4.24
5755-----------------
5756
5757 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5758 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5759 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5760 change 4.23/1.
5761
5762 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5763 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5764 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5765
5766 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5767 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5768 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5769
5770 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5771 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5772 causing some misleading effects.
5773
5774 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5775 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5776 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5777
5778 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5779 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5780 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5781 queue-runner function directly.
5782
5783
5784Exim version 4.23
5785-----------------
5786
5787 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5788 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5789
5790 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5791 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5792 was always written to the default place.
5793
5794 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5795 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5796 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5797
5798 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5799
5800 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5801
5802 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5803 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5804 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5805
5806 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5807 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5808 must start.
5809
5810 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5811 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5812 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5813
5814 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5815 command line option is disabled.
5816
5817 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5818 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5819
5820 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5821
5822 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5823
5824 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5825 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5826
582710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5828
582911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5830 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5831 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5832 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5833 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5834 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5835
583612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5837 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5838 timeout.
5839
584013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5841 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5842
584314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5844 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5845
584615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5847 received was valid base64.
5848
584916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5850 name of the variable that was being set.
5851
585217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5853
585418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5855 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5856 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5857 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5858 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5859 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5860
586119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5862
586320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5864 nor realm was specified.
5865
586621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5867 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5868 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5869 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5870
587122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5872 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5873 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5874
587523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5876 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5877 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5878
587924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5880 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5881 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5882 some systems use these upper case variants.
5883
588425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5885 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5886 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5887 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5888
588926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5890
589127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5892 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5893
589428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5895 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5896 expansion variable.
5897
589829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5899
590030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5901 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5902 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5903 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5904
590531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5906 using it.
5907
590832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5909 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5910 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5911
591233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5913 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5914
591534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5916 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5917 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5918 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5919
592035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5921 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5922 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5923
592436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5925
592637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5927 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5928 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5929 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5930 aborted.
5931
593238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5933 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5934 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5935
593639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5937
593840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5939 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5940
594141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5942 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5943
594442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5945 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5946 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5947 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5948 when emails are that large.
5949
5950
5951
5952Exim version 4.22
5953-----------------
5954
5955 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5956 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5957
5958 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5959 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5960 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5961
5962 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5963 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5964 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5965
5966 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5967 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5968 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5969 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5970 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5971
5972 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5973 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5974 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5975 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5976 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5977 ever.
5978
5979 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5980 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5981 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5982 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5983 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5984 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5985 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5986 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5987 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5988 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5989 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5990 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5991 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5992 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5993
5994 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5995 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5996 parameterised it.
5997
5998 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5999 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6000 error should be diagnosed.
6001
6002 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6003 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6004 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6005 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6006 appeared instead of "NULL".
6007
600810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6009 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6010 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6011 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6012 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6013 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6014 proceeds).
6015
6016 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6017 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6018 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6019
6020
6021Exim version 4.21
6022-----------------
6023
6024 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6025 or receiver verification errors.
6026
6027 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6028 name.
6029
6030 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6031 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6032 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6033 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6034
6035 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6036 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6037 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6038 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6039 shouldn't happen again.
6040
6041 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6042 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6043 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6044
6045 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6046 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6047
6048 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6049
6050 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6051 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6052
6053 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6054 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6055 RFC.
6056
605710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6058 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6059 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6060
606111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6062 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6063 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6064 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6065
606612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6067 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6068 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6069 to define what should happen).
6070
607113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6072 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6073 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6074
607514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6076
607715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6078
607916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6080 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6081
608217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6083 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6084 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6085 structure in all cases.
6086
6087 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6088 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6089 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6090 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6091
609218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6093 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6094 domain name.
6095
609619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6097 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6098
609920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6100 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6101
610221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6103 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6104 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6105
610622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6107 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6108 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6109
611023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6111 the book and for uniformity.
6112
611324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6114
611525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6116 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6117 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6118 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6119 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6120 non-existent command as the problem.
6121
612226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6123 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6124 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6125
612627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6127
612828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6129 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6130 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6131
613229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6133 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6134 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6135 timestamps using strftime().
6136
613730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6138 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6139
614032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6141 transport-time rewrites.
6142
614333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6144 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6145 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6146 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6147
614834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6149 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6150
615135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6152 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6153 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6154 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6155 comma and a space.
6156
615736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6158 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6159 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6160 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6161 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6162 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6163 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6164
616537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6166 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6167 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6168 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6169 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6170
617138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6172 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6173 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6174 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6175 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6176 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6177 remaining text gets split now.
6178
617939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6180 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6181 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6182 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6183
618440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6185 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6186 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6187 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6188 $return_path.
6189
619041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6191 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6192 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6193 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6194 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6195 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6196 passed through if needed.
6197
619842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6199 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6200 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6201 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6202 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6203 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6204
620543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6206 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6207 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6208 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6209 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6210
621144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6212 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6213 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6214 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6215 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6216
621745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6218 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6219 noticed.
6220
622146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6222 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6223 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6224 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6225 mayhem of various kinds.
6226
622747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6228 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6229 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6230 the right test for positive values.
6231
623248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6233 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6234 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6235 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6236 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6237 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6238 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6239 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6240 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6241 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6242 envelope.
6243
624449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6245 module.
6246
624750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6248 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6249 forbidding it.
6250
625151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6252 the existing equality matching.
6253
625452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6255 dealing with inode numbers.
6256
625753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6258 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6259 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6260
626154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6262 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6263 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6264 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6265 local_scan().
6266
626755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6268 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6269 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6270 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6271 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6272 relay addresses has also been removed.
6273
627456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6275
627657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6277 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6278 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6279
628058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6281 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6282 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6283 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6284 processing applies to CR:
6285
6286 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6287 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6288
6289 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6290 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6291 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6292 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6293
629459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6295 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6296 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6297
629860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6299 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6300 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6301 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6302 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6303 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6304 arisen.
6305
630661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6307 program routers.
6308
630962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6310 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6311 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6312 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6313 adds:
6314
6315 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6316
6317 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6318
6319 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6320
632163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6322 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6323 not considered personal.
6324
632564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6326
632765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6328
632966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6330
633167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6332 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6333 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6334 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6335 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6336 header lines, and spool format errors.
6337
633868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6339 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6340 for more flexibility.
6341
634269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6343 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6344 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6345
634670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6347 Sabourenkov.
6348
634971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6350 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6351 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6352 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6353 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6354 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6355 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6356 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6357 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6358
635972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6360 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6361 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6362 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6363 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6364 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6365 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6366
636773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6368 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6369 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6370
637174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6372 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6373 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6374 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6375 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6376 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6377 instead of killing the process with assert().
6378
637975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6380 than Unicode encoding.
6381
638276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6383 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6384 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6385 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6386
638777. Added process_log_path.
6388
638978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6390 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6391
639279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6393 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6394
639580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6396 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6397 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6398
639981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6400 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6401 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6402 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6403 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6404 were applied:
6405
6406 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6407 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6408 as invalid.
6409
641082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6411 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6412 they will be used during message reception.
6413
6414
6415Exim version 4.20
6416-----------------
6417
6418The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6419
6420****