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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.77
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9PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
10 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
11
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12TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
13
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15Exim version 4.76
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17
18PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
19
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20PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
21 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
22
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23PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
24
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25PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
26
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27PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
28 Bugzilla 1098.
29
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30PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
31 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 32
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33TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
34 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
35
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36PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
37 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
38
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39PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
40 Bugzilla 1104.
41
c8d52a00 42TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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43 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
44
45TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
46 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
47 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
48 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
49
50PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
51 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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54Exim version 4.75
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56
4c9ef03a 57NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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58 Bugzilla 1073
59
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60TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
61 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
62 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
63
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64TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
65 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
66
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67PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
68 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
69 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
70
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71PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
72 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
73
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74PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
75 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
76
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77NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
78 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
79
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80NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
81 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
82
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83PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
84 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 85
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86NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
87 Fixes bug 943.
88
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89PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
90 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
91
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92PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
93 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
94
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95PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
96 SQL string expansion failure details.
97 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
98
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99PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
100 Patch from Simon Arlott.
101
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102PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
103 extern declarations in function scope.
104 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
105
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106PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
107 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
108 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
109 a kernel bug).
110
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111PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
112 Patch from Mark Zealey.
113
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114PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
115 Patch from Mark Zealey.
116
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117PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
118 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
119
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120PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
121 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
122
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123NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
124 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
125 Dennis Davis.
126
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127PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
128
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129PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
130
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131NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
132 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 133
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134TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
135 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
136
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138Exim version 4.74
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140
141TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
142 consequences so log it to the panic log.
143
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144TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
145 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
146
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147TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
148
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149DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
150 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
151 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
152
153PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
154 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
155 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
156
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157PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
158 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
159 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
160 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
161
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162PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
163 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
164 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
165 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
166
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167PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
168 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
169 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
170 arbitrary files.
171
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172PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
173 (Wolfgang Breyha)
174
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175PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
176 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
177 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
178 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
179 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
180
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184
185PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
186 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
187 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
188
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189PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
190 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
191
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192JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
193
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194PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
195
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196PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
197
ec5a0394 198PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 199
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200PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
201
453a6645 202PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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203 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
204 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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205 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
206
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207PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
208 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
209 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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210 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
211 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 212
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213PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
214
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215PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
216
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217PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
218
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219PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
220
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221PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
222
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223PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
224
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225PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
226
6a8de854 227PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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228 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
229 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 230
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231JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
232
233JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
234 "exim" to be used
55c75993 235
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236PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
237 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
238
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239PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
240 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
241 Notification from John Horne.
242
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243PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
244 compatible.
245
246PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
247 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
248 it normally works.
249
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250DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
251 access.
252
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253DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
254 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
255 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
256
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257DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
258 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
259 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
260 configuration file.
261
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262DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
263 option (effectively making it always true).
264
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265DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
266 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
267
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268DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
269 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
270
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271PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
272 run-time user, instead of root.
273
43236f35 274PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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275 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
276
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277DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
278 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
279 arguments.
3346ab01 280
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281DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
282 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
283 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
284
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285DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
286
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287NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
288
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290Exim version 4.72
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292
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293JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
294 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
295 typos
465e92cf 296
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297JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
298 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
299 (Finput)
edae0343 300
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301NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
302 Patch from Alain Williams
303
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304NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
305
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306NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
307 Patch from Andreas Metzler
308
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309NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
310 Patch from Kirill Miazine
311
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312NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
313
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314JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
315
a466095c 316NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 317 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 318
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319TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
320
321TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
322
323MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
324 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
325 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
326
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327NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
328 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 329
b26eacf1 330NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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331 Patch by Simon Arlott
332
179c5980 333PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 334 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 335
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337Exim version 4.71
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339
7d9f747b 340TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 341
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342NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
343
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344NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
345
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346NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
347
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348NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
349
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351Exim version 4.70
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353
cdd3bb85 354TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 355 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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356
357TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
358 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 359 Hirsch).
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360
361TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
362 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 363 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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364
365TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
366 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
367
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368NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
369 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
370 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
371 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
372
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373NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
374 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 375 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 376
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377TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
378
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379TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
380
dae9d94e 381NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 382 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 383
7d9f747b 384NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 385
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386TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
387 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
388 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
389 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
390
65a7d8c3 391NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 392 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 393
23510047 394TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 395
7d9f747b 396NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 397
7d8eec3a 398NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 399 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 400
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401TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
402 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 403
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404TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
405 that they are available at delivery time.
406
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407TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
408
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409TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
410 incoming_port log selectors.
411
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412TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
413 setting expands to an empty string.
414
ce552449 415NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 416 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 417
e765a0f1 418NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 419 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 420
4f054c63 421NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 422 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 423
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424NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
425 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 426
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427NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
428 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 429
b52bc06e 430NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 431 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 432
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433NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
434
4c69d561 435NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 436 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 437
d5c39246 438NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 439 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 440
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441TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
442
8f3414a1 443NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 444 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 445
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446NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
447
448NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 449
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450NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
451 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 452
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453NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
454 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 455
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456NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
457 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 458
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459NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
460 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 461
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462NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
463 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 464
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465NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
466 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 467
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468NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
469 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 470
7d9f747b 471NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 472 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 473
7d9f747b 474NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 475
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476NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
477 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 478
7d9f747b 479NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 480
7d9f747b 481NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 482
7d9f747b 483NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 484
7d9f747b 485NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 486
17792b53 487NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 488 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 489
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490NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
491 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 492
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493NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
494 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 495
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496NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
497 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 498
7d9f747b 499NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 500
7d9f747b 501NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 502
7d9f747b 503NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 504
7d9f747b 505NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 506
deafd5b3 507
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508Exim version 4.69
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510
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511TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
512 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
513 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
514
515 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
516 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
517 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
518 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
519 build errors in sieve.c.
520
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521NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
522 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
523 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
524
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525SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
526
7d9f747b 527NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 528
7d9f747b 529NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 530
7d9f747b 531NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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532
533
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536
537PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
538
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539PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
540 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
541 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
542 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
543 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
544 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
545 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
546 for iplsearch lookups.
547
548 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
549 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
550 previously such lookups could never work.
551
552 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
553 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
554 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
555
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556TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
557 version.
558
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559MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
560 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
561 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
562 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
563 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
564 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
565
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566TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
567 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
568
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569MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
570 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
571 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
572 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
573 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
574 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
575
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576PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
577 local_scan API.
578
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579PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
580
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581PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
582 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
583 encrypted.
584
585PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
586 by clients under certain conditions.
587
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588PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
589 "_responses" off the end of the name.
590
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591PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
592
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593PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
594 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
595
596PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
597
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598PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
599
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600PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
601
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602PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
603 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
604
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605PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
606
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607PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
608 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
609
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610PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
611
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612PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
613
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614PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
615 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
616 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
617 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 618
ddea74fa 619PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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620 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
621 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
622
ddea74fa 623PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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624 and InterBase are left for another time.)
625
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626PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
627
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628PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
629
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630PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
631
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632PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
633 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
634 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
635
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637Exim version 4.67
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639
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640MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
641 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
642 Jan Srzednicki.
643
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644PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
645 issue a MAIL command.
646
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647PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
648
649 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
650
651 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
652 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
653 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
654 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
655 item. This has been fixed.
656
657PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
658 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
659
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660PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
661 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
662
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663PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
664 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
665 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
666
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667SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
668
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669PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
670 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
671 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
672 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
673 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
674
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675MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
676 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
677 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
678
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679PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
680 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
681 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
682 the server_setid option was incorrect.
683
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684PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
685
6bf342e1
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686PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
687
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688PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
689 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
690 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
691 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
692 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
693
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694PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
695
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696PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
697 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
698 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
699 values).
700
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701PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
702
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703PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
704
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705PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
706
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707PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
708
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709PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
710
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711PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
712 no_callout_flush is set.
713
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714PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
715 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
716 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
717 fixed.
718
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719PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
720
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721PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
722 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
723 other ACL rejections are.
724
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725PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
726 with slight modification.
727
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728PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
729 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
730
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731PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
732 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
733 connection.
734
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735PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
736 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
737
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738SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
739
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740PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
741 expansion side effects.
742
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743PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
744 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
745 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
746 be the same.
747
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748MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
749 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
750 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
751
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752PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
753 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
754 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
755 were accidentally chopped off.
756
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757PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
758 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
759 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
760 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
761 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
762 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
763 pipelining has not been advertised.
764
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765PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
766
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767PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
768 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
769 This has been fixed.
770
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771PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
772 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
773 reported on Solaris.
774
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775PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
776 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
777 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
778 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
779 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
780 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
781 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
782
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783PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
784 cpus.
785
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786PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
787
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788PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
789
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790PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
791 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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792 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
793 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
794 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
795 criteria to be more general.
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797PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
798 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
799 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
800 host_all_ignored option.
801
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802PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
803 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
804 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
805 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
806 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
807 is what is supposed to happen).
808
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809PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
810 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
811 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
812 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
813 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
814 uses the Exim user.
815
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816PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
817 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
818 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
819 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
820 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
821 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
822 users.
823
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824PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
825
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826SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
827 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
828 (Jez Hancock).
829 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
830 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
831
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832SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
833
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834PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
835
58eb016e 836PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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837 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
838 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
839 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
840 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
841 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
842 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
843 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 844 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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845 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
846 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 847
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848PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
849 advertised in response to EHLO.
850
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852Exim version 4.66
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854
855PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
856 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
857
858 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
859 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
860
861 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
862 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
863 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
864
865 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
866 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
867 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
868 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
869 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
870
871
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874
875TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
876 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
877 versions. (#438)
878
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879MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
880 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
881 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
882
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883PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
884 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
885 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
886 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
887 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
888 rather than extend the field.
889
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894TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
895 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
896 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
897 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
898 these files.
899
900TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
901 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
902 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
903
904TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
905 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
906 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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907
908TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
909 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
910 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
911 in the field name.
912
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913PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
914 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
915 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
916 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
917 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
918 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
919 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
920 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
921 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
922 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
923 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
924
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925PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
926 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
927
928PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
929 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
930 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
931 ignores EPIPE as well.
932
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933PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
934 (quoted-printable decoding).
935
cc2ed8f7 936PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 937 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 938
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939PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
940
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941PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
942
943PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
944
38a0a95f 945PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 946 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 947
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948JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
949 in 4.64-PH/09.
950
951JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
952 miscellaneous code fixes
953
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954PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
955 rejections.
956
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957PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
958 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
959 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
960 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
961 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
962 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
963 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
964 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 965
14aa5a05 966PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 967 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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968 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
969 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
970 function.
971 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
972 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
973 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
974 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
975 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
976 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
977 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
978 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
979 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
980
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981PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
982 decoding.
983
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984PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
985 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
986 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
987 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
988 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
989 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
990 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
991 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
992
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993PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
994 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
995 list.
996
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997PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
998 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
999 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1000 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1001 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1002 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1003 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1004 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1005 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1006 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1007 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1008 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1009 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1010
08955dd3
PH
1011PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1012 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1013 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1014 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1015 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1016 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1017 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1018
1eccaa59
PH
1019PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1020 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1021 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1022 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1023 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1024 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1025 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1026 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1027 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1028 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1029
602e59e5
PH
1030PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1031 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1032 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1033 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1034 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1035
411ef850
PH
1036PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1037 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1038 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1039 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1040 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1041 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1042 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1043
7befa435
PH
1044PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1045 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1046 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1047 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1048 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1049 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1050 been verified.
1051
48da4259 1052PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1053 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1054 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1055 and authorization.)
1056
48da4259
PH
1057PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1058 if any retry times were supplied.
1059
d1d5595c
PH
1060PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1061 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1062 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1063
0ef732d9
PH
1064PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1065
328895cc
PH
1066PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1067
fd700877
PH
1068PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1069 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1070 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1071 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1072 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1073 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1074
8dce1a6f
PH
1075PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1076 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1077
17af4a17
PH
1078PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1079 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1080 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1081
1082PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1083 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1084 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1085 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1086 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1087 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1088 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1089 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1090 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1091
1092 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1093 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1094 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1095 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1096 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1097 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1098 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1099 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1100 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1101
1102 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1103 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1104 hammering the server.
1105
c1114884
PH
1106PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1107 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1108
7a0743eb
PH
1109PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1110
0d85fa3f
PH
1111PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1112 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1113 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1114
1bf43b78
PH
1115PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1116 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1117 one case where this was not true.
1118
520de300
PH
1119PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1120 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1121 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1122 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1123 fails.
1124
48c7f9e2
PH
1125PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1126 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1127 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1128 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1129 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1130 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1131 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1132 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1133 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1134 smtp transport.
1135
99ea1c86
PH
1136PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1137 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1138 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1139 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1140
a2042e78
PH
1141PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1142 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1143
4fbcfc2e
PH
1144PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1145 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1146 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1147
aa41d2de
PH
1148PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1149
af561417
PH
1150PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1151
3cc66b45
PH
1152PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1153
194cc0e4
PH
1154PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1155 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1156 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1157 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1158
a401ddaa
PH
1159PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1160 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1161
4e88a19f
PH
1162PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1163 be meaningful with "accept".
1164
d7d7b289
SC
1165SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1166 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1167
1168SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1169 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1170 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1171
1172SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1173 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1174 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1175 there is data to show.
1176 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1177
1178SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1179 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1180 as well as the number of messages.
1181
1182SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1183 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1184 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1185
1186SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1187 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1188 have a flag are now skipped.
1189
1190SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1191 Added the -emptyok flag.
1192
1193SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1194 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1195
0ea2a468
JJ
1196JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1197 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1198 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1199
1200JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1201 match 4.64-PH/13
1202
1203JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1204 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1205
1206JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1207
1208JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1209 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1210
8a10f5a4
PH
1211PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1212
30e18802
PH
1213PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1214 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1215 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1216 contravention of the specifications.
1217
55728a4f
PH
1218PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1219 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1220 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1221
d7837193
PH
1222PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1223 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1224 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1225
87054a31
PH
1226PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1227
ea2c01d2
MH
1228MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1229 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1230 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1231 some point in the past.
1232
e4fa6968
PH
1233PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1234 transport during callout processing was broken.
1235
56f5d9bd
PH
1236PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1237 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1238
922e1c28
PH
1239PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1240 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1241
21eb6e72
PH
1242PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1243 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1244
a0540757
PH
1245PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1246
944e9e9c 1247
478be7b0
SC
1248Exim version 4.63
1249-----------------
1250
1251SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1252 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1253
1254SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1255 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1256 there is data to show.
1257 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1258
1259SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1260 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1261
2b965a65
TF
1262TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1263 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1264
45b91596
PH
1265TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1266 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1267
c59f5781
TF
1268TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1269 submissions from trusted users.
1270
90fc3069
TF
1271TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1272 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1273
6083aca0
TF
1274TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1275 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1276 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1277 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1278 there is now a framework to start from.
1279
765b530f
PH
1280PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1281 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1282 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1283
4e167a8c
PH
1284PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1285
4608d683
PH
1286PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1287
b8dc3e4a
PH
1288PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1289
5418e93b
PH
1290PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1291 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1292 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1293
b4a9bda2
PH
1294PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1295 libradius.
1296
45b91596
PH
1297PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1298 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1299 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1300
5547e2c5
PH
1301PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1302 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1303 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1304 its arguments.
1305
dbcef0ea
PH
1306PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1307 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1308 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1309 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1310 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1311
25257489
PH
1312PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1313 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1314
c816d124
PH
1315PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1316
a9ccd69a
PH
1317PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1318 operations in malware.c.
1319
75fa1910
PH
1320PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1321 signatures.
1322
a7d7aa58
PH
1323PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1324 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1325 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1326 all.
1327
42119b09
PH
1328PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1329 statements to "add_header".
1330
41609df5
PH
1331PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1332 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1333
a5bd321b
PH
1334PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1335 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1336 latter.
1337
e85a7ad5 1338PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1339 so that it is now:
1340
e85a7ad5
PH
1341 ${if or { \
1342 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1343 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1344 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1345 }{no}{yes}}
1346
e85a7ad5
PH
1347 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1348 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1349
d8fe1c03
PH
1350PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1351 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1352
16282d2b
PH
1353PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1354 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1355 any possible encoding problems.
1356
35d40a98
PH
1357PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1358 but not after initializing Perl.
1359
034d99ab
PH
1360PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1361 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1362 apparently, which is not desirable.
1363
6ec97b1b
PH
1364PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1365 queries.
1366
e22ca4ac
JJ
1367JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1368 --not options
1369
1370JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1371
33d73e3b
PH
1372PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1373 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1374 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1375 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1376
9ecb03f3
PH
1377PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1378 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1379 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1380
084efe8d
PH
1381PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1382 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1383 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1384 0.12.
1385
366fc9f0
PH
1386PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1387 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1388 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1389 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1390 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1391
c59f5781 1392
c887c79e
TF
1393Exim version 4.62
1394-----------------
1395
1396TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1397 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1398
1cce3af8
PH
1399PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1400 patch).
1401
afb3eaaf
PH
1402PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1403 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1404 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1405 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1406 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1407 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1408 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1409 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1410 451 error is used.
1411
e173618b
PH
1412PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1413
dd16e114
PH
1414PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1415 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1416 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1417
f7fd3850
PH
1418PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1419 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1420 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1421 odd errors.
1422
d87df92c
PH
1423PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1424 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1425
7e9f683d
PH
1426PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1427 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1428 option (which defaults to 0600).
1429
bfad5236
PH
1430PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1431
01c490df
PH
1432PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1433 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1434 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1435 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1436 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1437 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1438 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1439
d6629cdc
PH
1440PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1441
1cce3af8 1442
214e2000
PH
1443Exim version 4.61
1444-----------------
1445
1446PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1447 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1448 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1449 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1450 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1451 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1452 addresses as local.
1453
f9daeae0
PH
1454PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1455 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1456
7e66e54d
PH
1457PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1458
c8ea1597
PH
1459PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1460 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1461 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1462 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1463 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1464 grumble.
1465
911f6fde
PH
1466PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1467 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1468
47ca6d6c
PH
1469PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1470 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1471 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1472 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1473 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1474
ed0e9820
PH
1475PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1476 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1477 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1478 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1479
eff37e47
PH
1480PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1481 be the same on different OS.
1482
1921d2ea
PH
1483PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1484 testing.
1485
b3f69ca8
JJ
1486JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1487 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1488
1489JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1490 in 4.61-PH/06
1491
424a1c63
PH
1492PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1493 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1494 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1495 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1496 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1497 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1498 bounce message.
1499
7a100415
PH
1500PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1501 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1502 when Exim was called.
1503
19b9dc85
PH
1504PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1505 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1506
309bd837
PH
1507PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1508 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1509 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1510 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1511
59e82a2a
PH
1512PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1513 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1514 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1515 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1516 changes:
1517
1518 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1519 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1520 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1521
1522 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1523 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1524 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1525
9edc04ce
PH
1526PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1527 feature).
1528
1349e1e5
PH
1529PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1530 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1531 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1532 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1533 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1534 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1535 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1536 values from the SRV records were lost.
1537
ea49d0e1
PH
1538PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1539 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1540 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1541
064a94c9
PH
1542PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1543 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1544 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1545
727071f8
PH
1546PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1547 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1548 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1549 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1550 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1551 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1552 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1553 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1554 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1555 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1556
f78eb7c6
PH
1557PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1558 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1559 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1560
21c28500
PH
1561PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1562 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1563
1564PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1565 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1566 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1567 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1568 is given.
1569
1688f43b
PH
1570PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1571 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1572 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1573
1574PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1575 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1576 PH/23 above applies.
1577
9675b384
PH
1578PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1579 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1580 (for which there is an explicit test).
1581
6a3f1455
PH
1582PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1583
dac79d3e
PH
1584PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1585 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1586 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1587 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1588 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1589
5977a0b3
PH
1590PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1591 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1592 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1593 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1594
c91535f3
PH
1595PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1596 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1597 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1598
0d46a8c8
PH
1599PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1600
278c6e6c
PH
1601PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1602
2cbb4081
PH
1603PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1604 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1605 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1606
3eef829e
PH
1607PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1608 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1609 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1610 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1611 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1612
1ab95fa6
PH
1613PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1614 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1615 the message gets confusing).
1616
230205fc
PH
1617PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1618 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1619 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1620 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1621
75e0e026
PH
1622PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1623 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1624 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1625 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1626 same order.
1627
1628PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1629 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1630 the different processes.
1631
145396a6
PH
1632PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1633
3cd34f13
PH
1634PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1635
11121d3d
JJ
1636JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1637 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1638
1639JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1640 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1641
1642JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1643 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1644 messages matching specified criteria.
1645
8def5aaf
PH
1646PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1647
929ba01c
PH
1648PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1649 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1650
2632889e
PH
1651PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1652 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1653 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1654 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1655 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1656 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1657 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1658 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1659 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1660 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1661
944a9c55
PH
1662PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1663 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1664 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1665
4a23603b
PH
1666PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1667
4730f942
PH
1668PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1669 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1670 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1671 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1672 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1673 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1674 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1675 the variable.
1676
30dba1e6
PH
1677PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1678 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1679
382afc6b
PH
1680PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1681
a86229cf
PH
1682PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1683
50c99ba6
PH
1684PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1685
d35e429d
PH
1686PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1687 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1688 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1689 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1690 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1691 size of the count of files.
1692
f90d018c
PH
1693PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1694
75def545
PH
1695PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1696 used in LMTP mode:
1697
1698 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1699 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1700 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1701 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1702
1703 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1704 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1705 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1706
1707PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1708 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1709 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1710 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1711 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1712
c46782ef
PH
1713PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1714 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1715
71fafd95
PH
1716PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1717 will now be deprecated.
1718
2c5db4fd
PH
1719PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1720
9cf6b11a
JJ
1721JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1722 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1723 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1724
1725JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1726 with very large, slow to parse queues
1727
1728JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1729
1730JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1731
898d150f
PH
1732PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1733 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1734 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1735 SMTP output lines.
1736
46218253
PH
1737PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1738 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1739 Sieve code now uses this.
1740
e97957bc
PH
1741PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1742 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1743
81e509d7
PH
1744PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1745 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1746
3d240ff7
PH
1747PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1748
b37c4101
PH
1749PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1750 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1751 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1752 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1753 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1754
79378e0f
PH
1755PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1756 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1757 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1758 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1759
e49c7bb4
PH
1760PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1761
d114ec46
PH
1762PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1763
f3d7df6c
PH
1764PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1765 is preferred over IPv4.
1766
715ab376
PH
1767PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1768 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1769 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1770 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1771 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1772 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1773 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1774
6b31b150
PH
1775PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1776 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1777 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1778
1779PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1780
d515a917
PH
1781PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1782 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1783 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1784 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1785 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1786 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1787 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1788 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1789 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1790 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1791 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1792
9b8fadde
PH
1793PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1794 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1795 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1796
214e2000 1797
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1798Exim version 4.60
1799-----------------
1800
cc38ddbf
PH
1801PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1802
1803 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1804 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1805
1806 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1807 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1808 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1809
72fdd6ae
PH
1810PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1811
1812 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1813 not a single digit.
1814
1815 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1816 string.
1817
1818 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1819 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1820 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1821 silly things.
1822
1823 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1824 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1825
1826 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1827 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1828
cb741023
PH
1829PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1830 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1831 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1832
f174f16e
PH
1833PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1834 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1835
c25242d7
PH
1836PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1837 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1838
1839 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1840
1841 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1842 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1843 this:
1844
1845 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1846
82c19f95
PH
1847PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1848 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1849 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1850 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1851 identical. For example:
1852
1853 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1854
1855 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1856 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1857 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1858
d7ffbc12
PH
1859PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1860 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1861 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1862 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1863
9f526266
PH
1864PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1865 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1866 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1867 message.
1868
87fcc8b9
PH
1869PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1870
1871 o fixes some comments
1872 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1873 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1874 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1875 and documents the missing references header update
1876
1877 and most important:
1878
1879 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1880 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1881 result)
1882
456682f5
PH
1883PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1884 Electronic Mail") by including:
1885
1886 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1887
1888 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1889 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1890 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1891 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1892 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1893
1894 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1895
1896 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1897
1898 The auto-replied keyword:
1899
1900 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1901 message by an automatic process,
1902
1903 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1904
1905 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1906 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1907
1908 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1909 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1910 other messages.
1911
3e46c1aa
PH
1912PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1913 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1914
49826d12
PH
1915PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1916
eba0c039
PH
1917PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1918 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1919 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1920
a0d6ba8a
PH
1921PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1922 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1923 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1924
f0917727
PH
1925PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1926 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1927 and treats the condition as false.
1928
096fee00
PH
1929PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1930
024bd3c2
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1931PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1932 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1933 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1934 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1935 not changing the active code.
1936
1937 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1938 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1939
1940 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1941 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1942
df199fec
PH
1943PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1944 (Bugzilla #53).
1945
d27f1df3
PH
1946PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1947 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1948 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1949 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1950 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1951 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1952 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1953 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1954 the text comparison.
1955
96776534
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1956PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1957 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1958 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1959 The same fix has been applied.
1960
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1962Exim version 4.54
1963-----------------
1964
1965PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1966 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1967 It now does.
1968
99a4b039
PH
1969PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1970 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1971
1972PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1973
4b233853
PH
1974PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1975 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1976 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1977 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1978 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1979
8857ccfd
PH
1980TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1981 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1982 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1983 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1984 or /domain=).
1985
433a2980
PH
1986PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1987 testing suite.
1988
3e46c1aa 1989
9a799bc0 1990
e3a311ba
TK
1991Exim version 4.53
1992-----------------
1993
1994TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1995 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1996
13b685f9
PH
1997PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1998
395ff96d
PH
1999PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2000
5b68f6e4
PH
2001PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2002 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2003 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2004
1ab52c69
PH
2005PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2006 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2007 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2008
b07e6aa3
PH
2009PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2010 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2011 operating systems.
2012
254e032f
PH
2013PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2014 ${stat: expansion item.
2015
3af76a81
PH
2016PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2017 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2018
2548ba04
PH
2019PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2020 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2021 file for comments.
2022
b6c6011d
PH
2023PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2024
cf39cf57
PH
2025PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2026 setting.
2027
f1513293
PH
2028PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2029 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2030
727549a4
PH
2031TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2032
af46795e
PH
2033PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2034 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2035 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2036 the end of the subprocess.
2037
d7b47fd0
PH
2038PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2039 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2040 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2041 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2042 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2043
ee744174
JJ
2044JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2045
b582ab87
PH
2046TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2047
41a13e0a
PH
2048PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2049 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2050
f625cc5a
PH
2051PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2052
2053PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2054
21f7af35
PH
2055PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2056 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2057 HP-UX compiler.
2058
31480e42
PH
2059PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2060
2d280592
PH
2061PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2062 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2063 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2064
7cd1141b
PH
2065PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2066 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2067
2068PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2069 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2070
750af86e
PH
2071PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2072 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2073
2074 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2075 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2076
2077 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2078 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2079 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2080 contributed by a Radius user.
2081
2082PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2083 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2084
4304270b
TK
2085TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2086 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2087
750af86e
PH
2088PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2089 available.
2090
64ffc24f
PH
2091PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2092 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2093 received.
2094
5dd9625b
PH
2095PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2096 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2097 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2098 header lines when this was not necessary.
2099
5591031b
PH
2100PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2101
ba18e66a
PH
2102PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2103 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2104 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2105 exists".
2106
9cec981f
PH
2107PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2108 -bV or -d is used.
2109
aa2b5c79
PH
2110PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2111 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2112 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2113 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2114
48a53b7f
PH
2115PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2116
1c59d63b
PH
2117PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2118
671012da
TK
2119TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2120
1509d3a8
PH
2121PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2122
2123PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2124 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2125 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2126 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2127 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2128 settings.
2129
2130PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2131
2fe1a124
PH
2132PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2133 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2134 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2135 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2136 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2137 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2138 which is clearly wrong.
2139
8800895a
PH
2140PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2141
ccfdb010
PH
2142PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2143 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2144 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2145 subsequently added.
2146
1130bfb0
PH
2147PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2148 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2149
ebcb507f
PH
2150PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2151
c35e155c
PH
2152PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2153 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2154
95d1f782
PH
2155PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2156 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2157
fd6de02e
PH
2158PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2159 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2160
58de37c5
PH
2161PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2162 recipients, not senders.
2163
261cf466
TF
2164TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2165 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2166
3ee512ff
PH
2167PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2168
e08c430f
PH
2169PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2170
bef5a11f
PH
2171PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2172 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2173 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2174 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2175
7546de58
TF
2176TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2177
e5d5a95f
TF
2178TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2179 clock is set back in time.
2180
2e88a017
TF
2181TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2182 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2183
a5f65aa4
TF
2184TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2185 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2186
e7726cbf
PH
2187PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2188 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2189 (see PH/47 above).
2190
a7fdad5b
TF
2191TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2192 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2193 header rewrites.
2194
6af56900
PH
2195PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2196 type ("H").
2197
0925ede6
PH
2198PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2199
66afa403
TF
2200TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2201 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2202 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2203
0154e85a
TF
2204TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2205 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2206 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2207 helo verification defer as a failure.
2208
16f12c76
PH
2209PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2210 actual error message.
2211
bbe902f0 2212
e5a9dba6
PH
2213Exim version 4.52
2214-----------------
2215
2216TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2217
22c3b60b
PH
2218PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2219 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2220 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2221 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2222
06a9b4b5
PH
2223TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2224
c1ac6996
PH
2225PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2226 can still be requested.
2227
9c7a242c
PH
2228PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2229 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2230 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2231 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2232
87ba3f5f
PH
2233TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2234 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2235 circumstances, but probably never did.
2236
2237PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2238 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2239 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2240 in the header line.
2241
29aba418
TF
2242TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2243
fe0dab11
TF
2244TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2245 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2246
11d337a4
TK
2247TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2248
2249TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2250
415c8f3b
PH
2251PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2252 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2253 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2254 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2255 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2256 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2257
958541e9
PH
2258PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2259 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2260 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2261 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2262 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2263 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2264
c206415f
TK
2265TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2266 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2267
2a4be8f9
PH
2268PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2269 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2270
1cba11c5
SC
2271SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2272 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2273
2274SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2275
2276SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2277
2278SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2279
2280SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2281
2282SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2283
2284SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2285
1005d00e
TK
2286TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2287
2288TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2289 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2290 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2291
2292TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2293 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2294 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2295 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2296
9b4768fa
PH
2297PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2298 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2299 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2300
2301PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2302 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2303 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2304 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2305
0d7eb84a
PH
2306PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2307 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2308 to be made).
2309
2310PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2311 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2312 should work with maildirs and everything.
2313
40727bee
TK
2314TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2315 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2316
554d2369
TF
2317TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2318 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2319
1f922db1
PH
2320PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2321 function for BDB 4.3.
2322
ef213c3b
PH
2323PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2324
8ac170f3
PH
2325PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2326 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2327 involved.
2328
b1c749bb
PH
2329PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2330 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2331 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2332 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2333 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2334 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2335
4aac9b49
PH
2336PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2337 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2338 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2339 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2340 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2341 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2342 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2343 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2344
294520c8
TK
2345TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2346 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2347 details.
2348
5bd022fe
PH
2349PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2350 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2351
90e9ce59
PH
2352PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2353 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2354 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2355 test. It is now used for both.
2356
5ea81592
PH
2357PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2358 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2359 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2360 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2361 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2362 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2363
c6c2dc1d
PH
2364PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2365 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2366 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2367 string_vformat().
2368
fffffe4c
PH
2369PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2370 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2371 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2372
9a26b6b2
PH
2373PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2374 experimental DomainKeys support:
2375
2376 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2377 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2378 the control was given.
2379
2380 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2381
4aee0225
PH
2382PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2383
32d668a5
PH
2384PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2385
8187c3f3
PH
2386PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2387 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2388 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2389 db.h files).
2390
ff790e47 2391PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2392 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2393 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2394 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2395 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2396 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2397 course.
ff790e47 2398
5417f6d1
PH
2399PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2400 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2401 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2402 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2403 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2404 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2405
59cf8544
PH
2406PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2407 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2408 do -d+all out of habit.
2409
e7ad8a65
PH
2410PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2411 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2412 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2413
ade42478
PH
2414PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2415 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2416 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2417 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2418 record types that Exim uses.
2419
182ad5cf
PH
2420PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2421 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2422 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2423 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2424 non-existent file that was broken.
2425
b0d9fc80
TK
2426TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2427 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2428
2429TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2430 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2431 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2432
2433TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2434
47c7a64a
PH
2435PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2436 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2437 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2438 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2439 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2440 same time.
2441
a388bce4
SC
2442SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2443 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2444 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2445 at a slight CPU cost.
2446
2447SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2448 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2449
2450SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2451 by Marc Sherman.
2452
0793e4ed
SC
2453SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2454
c58b88df
PH
2455PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2456 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2457
e7ad8a65 2458
7982096b
PH
2459Exim version 4.51
2460-----------------
2461
1a46a8c5
PH
2462TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2463 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2464
2f079f46 2465TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2466
2467TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2468
2469PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2470 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2471
2472PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2473 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2474 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2475 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2476 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2477 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2478 file.
2479
2480PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2481 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2482 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2483 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2484 these two options.
2485
2486PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2487 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2488 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2489 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2490 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2491 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2492 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2493 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2494
2495PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2496 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2497
2498PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2499 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2500 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2501 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2502 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2503 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2504
2505PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2506 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2507 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2508 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2509
2510PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2511 Finch).
2512
2513PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2514 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2515
49c2d5ea
PH
2516PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2517 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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2518 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2519 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2520 message.
49c2d5ea 2521
bf759a8b
PH
2522PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2523
83364d30
PH
2524PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2525 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2526
7999bbd7
PH
2527PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2528 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2529 to what was transported.)
2530
7dbf77c9
PH
2531TF/01 Added $received_time.
2532
74e0617f
PH
2533PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2534 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2535 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2536 spamd_address settings.
2537
2f079f46
PH
2538PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2539 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2540 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2541 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2542 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2543
8c841523
PH
2544PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2545
7766a4f0
PH
2546PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2547 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2548 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2549 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2550 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2551
8b417f2c
PH
2552PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2553 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2554
901f42cb
PH
2555PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2556 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2557 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2558 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2559 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2560 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2561 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2562 for failure.
2563
f9b9210e
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2564PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2565 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2566 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2567 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2568 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2569 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2570 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2571 "input=".
2572
54cdb463
PH
2573PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2574
cf00dad6
PH
2575PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2576 driver and ACL definitions.
2577
acb1b346
PH
2578PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2579 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2580
c5ddb310
PH
2581PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2582 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2583 understands it better than I do:
2584
2585 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2586 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2587
2588 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2589 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2590 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2591 => three warnings about OTP not working
2592 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2593
2594 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2595 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2596 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2597 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2598 for each call.)
2599 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2600 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2601
2602 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2603 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2604 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2605
31619da6
PH
2606PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2607 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2608 specified.
2609
bebaf0fc
PH
2610PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2611 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2612 "Linux".
2613
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PH
2614PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2615 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2616 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2617
2618 warn !verify = sender
2619 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2620
2621 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2622 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2623
7e8bec7a
PH
2624PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2625
2626 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2627 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2628
2629 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2630 nomenclature these days.)
2631
e4a89c47
PH
2632PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2633 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2634
5ca2a9a1
PH
2635PH/30 In these circumstances:
2636 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2637 . First host does not offer TLS;
2638 . First host accepts first address;
2639 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2640 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2641 . Second host accepts second address.
2642 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2643 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2644 address.
7e8bec7a 2645
c688b954
PH
2646PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2647 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2648 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2649 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2650 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2651
fed77020
PH
2652PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2653 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2654
7fe1560f
PH
2655PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2656 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2657
ebb6e6d5
PH
2658PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2659 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2660 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2661
9c4e8f60
PH
2662PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2663 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2664 overlooked.
2665
2666PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2667
d7174846
PH
2668PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2669 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2670 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2671 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2672 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2673 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2674 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2675
2676 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2677 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2678 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2679 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2680 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2681
2682 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2683 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2684 routed further.
2685
cfe75fc3
PH
2686PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2687 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2688 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2689 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2690 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2691 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2692
be22d70e
PH
2693PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2694
0612b098
PH
2695PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2696 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2697 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2698 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2699 printable escape sequences.
2700
2e0c1448
PH
2701PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2702 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2703 body only.
2704
447d236c
PH
2705PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2706 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2707 are as follows:
2708
2709 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2710 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2711 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2712 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2713 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2714
2715 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2716 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2717 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2718
d20976dc
PH
2719PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2720
f656d135
PH
2721PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2722 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2723 play with."
2724
2e2a30b4
PH
2725PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2726 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2727 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2728 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2729 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2730 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2731 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2732 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2733 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2734 the log output.
2735
9176e9f0
PH
2736PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2737 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2738 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2739 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2740 "make".
2741
7982096b 2742
bbe902f0
PH
2743A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2744----------------------------------------
2745
2746Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2747changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2748needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2749in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2750that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2751release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2752from 4.43.
2753
2754I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
27554.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2756those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2757historical information.
2758
2759
f7b63901 2760Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2761-----------------
2762
5fe762f6
PH
2763 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2764
139059f6 2765 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2766 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2767
7086e875
PH
2768 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2769 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2770 place.
2771
35af9f61
PH
2772 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2773 filter fails to execute.
2774
b668c215
PH
2775 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2776 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2777 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2778 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2779 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2780
a494b1e1
PH
2781 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2782
2783 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2784 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2785 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2786 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2787
c5fcb476
PH
2788 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2789 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2790 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2791 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2792 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2793
69358f02
PH
2794 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2795
5be20824
PH
279610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2797
eb2c0248
PH
279811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2799 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2800 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2801 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2802
2a3eea10
PH
280312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2804 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2805 sender verification.
2806
280713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2808 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2809
23c7ff99
PH
281014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2811
4deaf07d
PH
281215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2813 connection timeout.
2814
926e1192
PH
281516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2816 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2817
650edc6f
PH
281817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2819 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2820
2c7db3f5
PH
282118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2822 information about exactly what failed.
2823
3d235903
PH
282419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2825
7c7ad977
PH
282620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2827 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2828 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2829
981756db
PH
283021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2831 It is now set to "smtps".
2832
d4eb88df
PH
283322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2834 ignore_target_hosts.
2835
283623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2837 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2838 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2839 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2840 "[x.x.x.x]".
2841
7d468ab8
PH
284224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2843 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2844 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2845
284625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2847 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2848 wake it up if nothing else does.
2849
62c0818f
PH
285026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2851 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2852 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2853 end up negative.
2854
26034054
PH
285527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2856 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2857
af66f652
PH
285828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2859
90af77f4
PH
286029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2861 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2862 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2863 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2864 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2865 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2866 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2867 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2868
d8ef3577
PH
286930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2870 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2871 than one IP address.
2872
5cb8cbc6
PH
287331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2874 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2875 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2876 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2877
14702f5b
PH
287832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2879 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2880 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2881 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2882 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2883 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2884
063b1e99
PH
288533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2886 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2887 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2888 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2889
652e1b65
PH
289034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2891 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2892 respected.
2893
6f0c9a4f
PH
289435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2895 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2896 $sender_host_address.
2897
33397d19
PH
289836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2899 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2900 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2901 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2902 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2903 very small.
2904
7bb56e1f
PH
290537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2906
2907 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2908 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2909
ea3bc19b
PH
2910 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2911 just the host names, not the priorities.
2912
2913 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2914 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2915 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2916
ea3bc19b 2917 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2918 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2919
0bcb2a0e
PH
292038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2921 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2922 domain.
2923
2ac0e484
PH
292439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2925
4e1fde53
PH
292640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2927 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2928
de365ded
PH
292941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2930 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2931 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2932
f05da2e8
PH
293342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2934
d6453af2
PH
293543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2936
f7b63901
PH
293744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2938
293945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2940 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2941 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2942 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2943 because the tests only now provoked it.
2944
a444213a
PH
294546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2946 (this can affect the format of dates).
2947
0ec020ea
PH
294847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2949 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2950 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2951 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2952
b1206957
PH
295348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2954
295549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2956 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2957 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2958 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2959
26dd5a95
PH
296050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2961 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2962 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2963
343b2385
PH
296451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2965 autoreply.
2966
1c5466b9
PH
296752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2968 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2969 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2970 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2971 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2972 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2973 is going on).
2974
55ee9ee3
PH
297553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2976 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2977 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2978 the line.
2979
d38f8232
PH
298054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2981 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2982 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2983
2984 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2985 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2986 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2987 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2988 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2989 so I produce this patch..."
2990
3295e65b
PH
2991 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2992 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2993 is not defined.
2994
7102e136
PH
299555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2996 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2997 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2998 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2999 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3000
3ca0ba97
PH
300156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3002
c2bcbe20
PH
300357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3004 long debug lines gets shown.
3005
18ce445d
PH
300658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3007 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3008
1f5b4c3d
PH
300959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3010
3011 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3012 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3013 of $primary_hostname.
3014
b975ba52
PH
301560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3016 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3017 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3018 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3019 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3020 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3021 by change 4.50/55 above.
3022
3023 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3024 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3025 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3026 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3027 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3028 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3029 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3030
303161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3032 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3033 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3034 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3035
17ffcae7
PH
303662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3037 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3038
d95f9fdb
PH
303963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3040 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3041 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3042 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3043 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3044
86b8287f
PH
304564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3046 This has been fixed.
3047
60dc5e56
PH
304865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3049 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3050 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3051 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3052 the caching.)
3053
533244af
PH
305466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3055
a5a28604
PH
305667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3057 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3058 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3059 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3060
7e634d24
PH
306168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3062 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3063
3e11c26b
PH
306469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3065 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3066 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3067
6729cf78
PH
306870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3069 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3070 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3071 message there.
3072
00f00ca5
PH
307371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3074 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3075 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3076
c9bdd01c
PH
307772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3078 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3079 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3080 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3081
d43194df
PH
308273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3083 during host lookups.
3084
fe5b5d0b
PH
308574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3086 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3087
3088 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3089
76a2d7ba
PH
309075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3091 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3092 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3093 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3094 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3095 background.
3096
309776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3098 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3099
04f7d5b9
PH
310077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3101 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3102 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3103
bc60667e
PH
310478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3105
bb6e88ff
PH
310679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3107 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3108 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3109 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3110 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3111 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3112 process earlier.
3113
1e70f85b
PH
311480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3115 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3116 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3117 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3118 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3119
312081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3121 tables).
3122
4e01f9d6
PH
312382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3124
1ee1cef2
PH
312583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3126 "vacation" handling.
3127
6e2b4ccc
PH
312884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3129 OS variants using glibc.
3130
8e669ac1
PH
313185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3132
495ae4b0 3133
bbe902f0
PH
3134----------------------------------------------------
3135See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3136----------------------------------------------------
3137
3138
3139Exim version 4.44
3140-----------------
3141
3142 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3143 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3144 transport
3145
3146 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3147 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3148 place.
3149
3150 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3151 filter fails to execute.
3152
3153 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3154 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3155 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3156 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3157 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3158
3159 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3160 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3161 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3162 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3163
3164 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3165 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3166 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3167 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3168 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3169
3170 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3171
3172 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3173 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3174 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3175 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3176
3177 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3178 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3179 sender verification.
3180
318110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3182 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3183
318411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3185 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3186
318712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3188 ignore_target_hosts.
3189
319013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3191 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3192 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3193 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3194 "[x.x.x.x]".
3195
319614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3197 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3198 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3199
320015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3201 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3202 wake it up if nothing else does.
3203
320416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3205 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3206 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3207 end up negative.
3208
320917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3210 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3211
ea3a6f44 321218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3213
321419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3215 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3216 empty pattern.
3217
321820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3219 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3220 one IP address.
3221
ea3a6f44
NM
322221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3223 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3224 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3225 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3226 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3227 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3228
ea3a6f44
NM
322922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3230 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3231 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3232
323323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3234 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3235 $sender_host_address.
3236
323724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3238
ea3a6f44
NM
323925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3240 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3241 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3242
324326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3244 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3245
ea3a6f44
NM
324627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3247 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3248
ea3a6f44
NM
324928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3250 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3251 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3252 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3253
325429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3255 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3256 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3257
ea3a6f44
NM
325830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3259 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3260 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3261 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3262
ea3a6f44
NM
326331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3264 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3265 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3266
ea3a6f44
NM
326731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3268 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3269
ea3a6f44
NM
327032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3271 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3272 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3273 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3274 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3275 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3276 is going on).
bbe902f0 3277
ea3a6f44
NM
327833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3279 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3280 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3281 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3282 CAN-2005-0021
3283
ea3a6f44
NM
328434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3285 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3286 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3287 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3288 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3289 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3290 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3291
3292 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3293 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3294 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3295 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3296 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3297 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3298 CAN-2005-0021
3299
ea3a6f44
NM
330035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3301 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3302 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3303 CAN-2005-0022
3304
ea3a6f44
NM
330536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3306 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3307 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3308 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3309 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3310
ea3a6f44
NM
331137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3312 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3313 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3314 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3315 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3316
ea3a6f44
NM
331738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3318 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3319 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3320 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3321 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3322
3323
495ae4b0
PH
3324Exim version 4.43
3325-----------------
3326
3327 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3328 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3329 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3330 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3331 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3332 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3333 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3334
3335 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3336 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3337 the delivery.
3338
3339 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3340
3341 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3342
3343 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3344 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3345 to local_scan().
3346
3347 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3348 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3349 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3350 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3351 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3352
3353 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3354 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3355
3356 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3357
3358 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3359
336010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3361 header_sender only.
3362
336311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3364 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3365
336612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3367 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3368 affecting debugging statements).
3369
337013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3371
337214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3373 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3374 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3375 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3376 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3377 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3378 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3379 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3380 after the received time, and all would be well.
3381
338215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3383 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3384 condition in an expansion string.
3385
338616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3387
338817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3389 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3390 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3391 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3392 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3393 job under whatever limits there are.
3394
339518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3396
339719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3398 space).
3399
340020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3401 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3402 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3403 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3404 return path is set.
3405
340621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3407 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3408 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3409 binary data in such strings.
3410
341122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3412
341323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3414 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3415 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3416 failure, which is pointless.
3417
341824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3419
342025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3421
342226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3423 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3424 Sender: header lines.
3425
342627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3427 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3428 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3429
343028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3431 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3432 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3433 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3434 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3435 happens.
3436
343729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3438 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3439 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3440 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3441 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3442
344330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3444 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3445 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3446 1024.
3447
344831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3449 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3450
345132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3452 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3453
345433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3455
345632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3457
345833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3459
346034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3461 syntax error.
3462
346335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3464
346536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3466
346737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3468 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3469 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3470 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3471
347238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3473 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3474
3475
3476Exim version 4.42
3477-----------------
3478
3479 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3480 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3481 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3482 it was not quoted.
3483 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3484 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3485 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3486 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3487 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3488 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3489
3490 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3491 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3492 verification failure".
3493
3494 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3495 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3496 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3497 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3498
3499 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3500 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3501 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3502 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3503 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3504 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3505 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3506 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3507 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3508 treated as a timeout.
3509
3510 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3511 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3512 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3513 not set for Exim filters).
3514
3515 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3516 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3517 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3518
3519 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3520
3521 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3522 try to make them clearer.
3523
3524 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3525 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3526
3527 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3528
3529 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3530
353110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3532 only the Cygwin environment.
3533
353411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3535 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3536 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3537 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3538 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3539
354012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3541 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3542 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3543 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3544 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3545 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3546 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3547
354813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3549 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3550
355114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3552
3553 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3554 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3555 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3556
3557 To: susanne@some.where
3558
3559 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3560 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3561 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3562 of addresses in From: header lines).
3563
3564 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3565 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3566 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3567
3568 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3569 treated as non-personal.
3570
3571 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3572 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3573
357415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3575
357616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3577
357817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3579 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3580 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3581
358218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3583 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3584
358519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3586 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3587 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3588 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3589 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3590 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3591
359220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3593 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3594 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3595 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3596 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3597 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3598 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3599 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3600
3601 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3602
360321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3604 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3605
360622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3607 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3608 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3609
361023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3611 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3612
361324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3614 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3615 rather than long int.
3616
361725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3618
361926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3620
3621
3622Exim version 4.41
3623-----------------
3624
3625 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3626 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3627 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3628 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3629 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3630 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3631
3632
3633Exim version 4.40
3634-----------------
3635
3636 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3637 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3638
3639 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3640 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3641 socklen_t is defined.
3642
3643 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3644 always exist.
3645
3646 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3647 configured.
3648
3649 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3650 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3651 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3652 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3653 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3654
3655 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3656 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3657 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3658 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3659
3660 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3661 of flapping under certain conditions.
3662
3663 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3664 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3665 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3666
3667 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3668
366910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3670
367111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3672 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3673 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3674 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3675
367612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3677 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3678 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3679 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3680 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3681 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3682 preserved with the message after it was received.
3683
368413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3685 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3686 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3687 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3688 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3689 test suite worked just fine.
3690
369114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3692 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3693 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3694
369515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3696 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3697 string.
3698
369916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3700 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3701 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3702 does not fully solve it.
3703
370417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3705 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3706 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3707 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3708 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3709
371018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3711 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3712 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3713
371419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3715 string, for example:
3716
3717 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3718
3719 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3720 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3721 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3722 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3723 the routers could not see them.
3724
372520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3726 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3727
372821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3729 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3730 output).
3731
373222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3733 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3734 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3735 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3736 that needed quoting.
3737
373823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3739 was not being matched caselessly.
3740
374124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3742 backslashes.
3743
374425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3745 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3746 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3747 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3748 when use_sender is false.
3749
375026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3751
375227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3753
375428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3755
375629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3757 the configuration file.
3758
375930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3760 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3761
376231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3763
376432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3765 bytes in the message body.
3766
376733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3768 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3769 delivery.
3770
377134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3772
377335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3774
377536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3776 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3777 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3778 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3779 another IP address.
3780
3781
3782Exim version 4.34
3783-----------------
3784
3785 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3786 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3787
3788 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3789 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3790 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3791 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3792 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3793
3794 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3795 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3796
3797 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3798 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3799 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3800
3801 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3802 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3803 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3804
3805 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3806 for routers.
3807
3808 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3809 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3810 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3811 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3812 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3813 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3814 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3815
3816
3817Exim version 4.33
3818-----------------
3819
3820 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3821 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3822 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3823 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3824 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3825 default (and expected) setting.
3826
3827 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3828 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3829 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3830 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3831
3832 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3833 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3834
3835 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3836 in domain lists.
3837
3838 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3839 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3840 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3841 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3842 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3843 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3844
3845 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3846 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3847 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3848
3849 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3850 part (NOT match_host).
3851
3852 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3853
3854 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3855 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3856 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3857 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3858 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3859 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3860 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3861 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3862 the same named file.
3863
386410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3865 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3866 when Exim is built.
3867
386811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3869 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3870 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3871 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3872 a host name.
3873
387412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3875 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3876 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3877
387813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3879
388014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3881
388215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3883
388416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3885 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3886
388717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3888 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3889 before starting the TLS session.
3890
389118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3892
389319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3894 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3895
389620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3897 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3898 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3899 colon in the middle).
3900
3901
3902Exim version 4.32
3903-----------------
3904
3905 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3906 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3907 multiple configurations are in use.
3908
3909 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3910 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3911 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3912 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3913 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3914 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3915
3916 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3917 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3918
3919 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3920 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3921 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3922
3923 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3924 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3925 occurs.
3926
3927 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3928 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3929
3930 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3931
3932 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3933 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3934
3935 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3936
3937 -prval:sval
3938
3939 is equivalent to
3940
3941 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3942
3943 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3944 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3945 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3946 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3947 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3948
394910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3950 Exim's behaviour:
3951
3952 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3953 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3954 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3955 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3956 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3957 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3958
3959 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3960 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3961 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3962 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3963 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3964 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3965 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3966 string.
3967
3968 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3969 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3970 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3971 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3972 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3973
397411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3975
397612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3977 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3978 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3979
398013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3981
398214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3983 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3984 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3985 information.
3986
398715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3988 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3989
399016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3991 Three changes have been made:
3992
3993 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3994 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3995 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3996 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3997 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3998
3999 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4000 been restored.
4001
4002 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4003 the modified behaviour.
4004
4005
4006Exim version 4.31
4007-----------------
4008
4009 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4010 Larry Rosenman.
4011
4012 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4013 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4014
4015 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4016 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4017 try to track down a specific problem.
4018
4019 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4020 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4021 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4022
4023 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4024 warning.
4025
4026 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4027 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4028 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4029 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4030 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4031 some earlier ones do not.
4032
4033 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4034
4035 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4036 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4037 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4038 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4039 address literals are enabled, of course).
4040
4041 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4042
404310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4044 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4045 by a command such as
4046
4047 exim -f "" ...
4048
4049 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4050
405111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4052
405312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4054 remained set. It is now erased.
4055
405613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4057 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4058
405914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4060 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4061 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4062 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4063 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4064 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4065 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4066 appropriate error code.
4067
406815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4069 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4070 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4071 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4072 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4073 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4074
407516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4076 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4077 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4078
407917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4080 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4081 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4082 terminate the header.
4083
408418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4085 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4086 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4087
408819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4089 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4090 (4.30/29). In particular:
4091
4092 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4093 imposed.
4094
4095 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4096 to write a maildirsize file.
4097
4098 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4099 the transport, the new value overrides.
4100
4101 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4102 count.
4103
410420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4105 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4106 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4107 space or a tab.
4108
410921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4110 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4111 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4112 the fallback hosts.
4113
411422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4115 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4116 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4117
411823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4119 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4120 using a union.
4121
412224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4123 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4124 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4125
412625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4127
412826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4129
413027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4131
413228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4133 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4134 become corrupted.
4135
413629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4137 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4138 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4139 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4140 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4141 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4142 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4143 too great.
4144
414530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4146 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4147 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4148 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4149 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4150 incorrectly.
4151
415231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4153 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4154 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4155 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4156 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4157 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4158 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4159 cached value only when the same options are set.
4160
416132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4162
416333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4164 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4165 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4166 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4167 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4168
416934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4170 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4171 it is clearly obsolete.
4172
417335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4174 transport.
4175
417636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4177 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4178 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4179 times.
4180
418137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4182 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4183 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4184 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4185 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4186
418738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4188 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4189 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4190 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4191
419239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4193
4194 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4195
4196 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4197 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4198 2^31.
4199
420040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4201 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4202 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4203 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4204 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4205 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4206 $localpart_data.
4207
420841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4209 with the -f command-line option.
4210
421142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4212 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4213 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4214 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4215 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4216 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4217
421843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4219 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4220 line.
4221
422244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4223 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4224 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4225 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4226 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4227 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4228 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4229 buffer is too small.
4230
423145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4232 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4233
423446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4235 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4236 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4237 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4238 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4239 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4240 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4241 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4242 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4243
424447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4245 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4246 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4247
424848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4249 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4250 ACL").
4251
425249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4253 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4254 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4255 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4256 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4257
425850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4259 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4260 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4261 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4262 is set.
4263
426451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4265
426652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4267
426853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4269 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4270
427154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4272 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4273 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4274
427555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4276 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4277 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4278 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4279 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4280
428156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4282 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4283 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4284 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4285 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4286 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4287 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4288
428957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4290 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4291 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4292 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4293 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4294 the test of how many are available.
4295
429658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4297 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4298 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4299 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4300 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4301 new message is started.
4302
430359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4304 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4305
430660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4307 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4308
430961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4310 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4311 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4312 is no long logged.
4313
431462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4315 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4316 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4317 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4318 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4319 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4320 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4321
432263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4323 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4324 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4325 interpreted as octal.
4326
432764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4328 setting.
4329
433065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4331 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4332 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4333 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4334 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4335 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4336
433766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4338 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4339 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4340 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4341
4342 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4343 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4344 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4345 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4346
4347 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4348 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4349 is a bug fix.
4350
4351 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4352 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4353
435467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4355
435668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4357 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4358 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4359 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4360
436169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4362 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4363 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4364 supplied", which is not helpful.
4365
436670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4367 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4368 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4369
437071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4371 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4372 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4373 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4374 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4375 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4376 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4377 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4378
437972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4380 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4381 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4382 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4383 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4384
438573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4386 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4387 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4388 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4389 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4390 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4391
439274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4393 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4394 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4395
439675. Added write_rejectlog option.
4397
439876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4399 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4400 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4401 variables.
4402
440377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4404
440578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4406 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4407 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4408 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4409 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4410 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4411 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4412 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4413
441479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4415 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4416 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4417 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4418 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4419
442080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4421 Haardt.
4422
442381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4424 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4425 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4426 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4427 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4428 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4429 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4430 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4431 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4432
4433
4434Exim version 4.30
4435-----------------
4436
4437 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4438 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4439 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4440
4441 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4442 fixed.
4443
4444 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4445 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4446 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4447
4448 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4449 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4450 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4451 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4452 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4453 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4454
4455 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4456 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4457 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4458 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4459 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4460 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4461 the Exim test suite.
4462
4463 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4464 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4465 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4466 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4467
4468 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4469 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4470 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4471 specify it in this variable.
4472
4473 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4474 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4475 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4476 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4477
4478 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4479 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4480 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4481 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4482
4483 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4484 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4485 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4486 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4487 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4488
4489 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4490
449110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4492 they are logged.
4493
449411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4495 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4496 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4497 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4498 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4499
450012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4501 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4502
450313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4504 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4505 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4506 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4507 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4508
450914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4510 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4511
451215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4513 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4514 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4515
451616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4517 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4518
451917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4520 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4521
452218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4523 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4524 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4525
452619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4527 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4528
452920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4530 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4531 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4532 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4533
453421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4535
453622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4537 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4538 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4539 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4540
454123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4542
454324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4544 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4545
454625. Added .include_if_exists.
4547
454826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4549 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4550 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4551 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4552 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4553 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4554
455527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4556
455728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4558 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4559 this.
4560
456129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4562
456330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4564 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4565
4566 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4567 550 Sender verify failed
4568
4569 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4570 the final line of the response.
4571
457231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4573 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4574 all other user lookups.
4575
457632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4577 delivery time.
4578
457933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4580 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4581 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4582 result into an int without checking.
4583
458434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4585 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4586 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4587
458835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4589 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4590 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4591 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4592
459336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4594 correctly.
4595
459637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4597 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4598
459938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4600 to the empty sender.
4601
460239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4603 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4604 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4605 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4606 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4607 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4608 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4609 panic log.
4610
461140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4612 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4613 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4614 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4615 used.
4616
461741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4618 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4619
462042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4621 timestamps.
4622
462343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4624 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4625
462644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4627
462845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4629 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4630 logs.
4631
463246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4633 as soon as it is encountered.
4634
463547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4636
463748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4638 rewritten to "<>".
4639
464049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4641 recognizes a tab character.
4642
464350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4644 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4645 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4646 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4647
464851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4649
465052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4651 crash.
4652
465353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4654
465554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4656
465755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4658 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4659 2822.
4660
466156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4662 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4663 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4664 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4665 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4666
466757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4668 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4669
467058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4671 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4672 list (.included file names were always shown).
4673
467459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4675 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4676 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4677 root at that time.
4678
467960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4680 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4681
468261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4683
468462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4685
468663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4687
468864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4689 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4690 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4691 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4692 failures to open the logs.
4693
469465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4695 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4696 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4697 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4698 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4699 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4700 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4701
4702
4703Exim version 4.24
4704-----------------
4705
4706 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4707 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4708 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4709 change 4.23/1.
4710
4711 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4712 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4713 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4714
4715 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4716 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4717 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4718
4719 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4720 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4721 causing some misleading effects.
4722
4723 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4724 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4725 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4726
4727 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4728 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4729 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4730 queue-runner function directly.
4731
4732
4733Exim version 4.23
4734-----------------
4735
4736 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4737 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4738
4739 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4740 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4741 was always written to the default place.
4742
4743 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4744 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4745 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4746
4747 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4748
4749 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4750
4751 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4752 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4753 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4754
4755 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4756 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4757 must start.
4758
4759 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4760 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4761 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4762
4763 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4764 command line option is disabled.
4765
4766 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4767 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4768
4769 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4770
4771 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4772
4773 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4774 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4775
477610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4777
477811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4779 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4780 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4781 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4782 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4783 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4784
478512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4786 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4787 timeout.
4788
478913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4790 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4791
479214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4793 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4794
479515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4796 received was valid base64.
4797
479816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4799 name of the variable that was being set.
4800
480117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4802
480318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4804 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4805 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4806 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4807 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4808 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4809
481019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4811
481220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4813 nor realm was specified.
4814
481521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4816 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4817 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4818 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4819
482022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4821 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4822 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4823
482423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4825 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4826 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4827
482824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4829 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4830 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4831 some systems use these upper case variants.
4832
483325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4834 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4835 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4836 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4837
483826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4839
484027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4841 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4842
484328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4844 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4845 expansion variable.
4846
484729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4848
484930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4850 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4851 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4852 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4853
485431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4855 using it.
4856
485732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4858 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4859 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4860
486133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4862 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4863
486434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4865 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4866 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4867 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4868
486935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4870 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4871 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4872
487336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4874
487537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4876 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4877 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4878 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4879 aborted.
4880
488138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4882 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4883 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4884
488539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4886
488740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4888 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4889
489041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4891 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4892
489342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4894 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4895 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4896 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4897 when emails are that large.
4898
4899
4900
4901Exim version 4.22
4902-----------------
4903
4904 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4905 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4906
4907 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4908 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4909 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4910
4911 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4912 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4913 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4914
4915 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4916 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4917 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4918 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4919 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4920
4921 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4922 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4923 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4924 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4925 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4926 ever.
4927
4928 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4929 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4930 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4931 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4932 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4933 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4934 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4935 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4936 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4937 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4938 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4939 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4940 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4941 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4942
4943 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4944 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4945 parameterised it.
4946
4947 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4948 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4949 error should be diagnosed.
4950
4951 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4952 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4953 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4954 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4955 appeared instead of "NULL".
4956
495710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4958 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4959 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4960 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4961 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4962 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4963 proceeds).
4964
4965 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4966 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4967 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4968
4969
4970Exim version 4.21
4971-----------------
4972
4973 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4974 or receiver verification errors.
4975
4976 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4977 name.
4978
4979 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4980 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4981 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4982 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4983
4984 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4985 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4986 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4987 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4988 shouldn't happen again.
4989
4990 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4991 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4992 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4993
4994 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4995 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4996
4997 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4998
4999 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5000 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5001
5002 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5003 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5004 RFC.
5005
500610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5007 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5008 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5009
501011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5011 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5012 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5013 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5014
501512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5016 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5017 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5018 to define what should happen).
5019
502013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5021 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5022 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5023
502414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5025
502615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5027
502816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5029 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5030
503117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5032 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5033 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5034 structure in all cases.
5035
5036 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5037 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5038 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5039 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5040
504118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5042 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5043 domain name.
5044
504519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5046 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5047
504820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5049 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5050
505121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5052 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5053 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5054
505522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5056 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5057 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5058
505923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5060 the book and for uniformity.
5061
506224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5063
506425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5065 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5066 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5067 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5068 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5069 non-existent command as the problem.
5070
507126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5072 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5073 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5074
507527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5076
507728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5078 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5079 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5080
508129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5082 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5083 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5084 timestamps using strftime().
5085
508630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5087 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5088
508932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5090 transport-time rewrites.
5091
509233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5093 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5094 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5095 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5096
509734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5098 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5099
510035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5101 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5102 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5103 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5104 comma and a space.
5105
510636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5107 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5108 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5109 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5110 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5111 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5112 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5113
511437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5115 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5116 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5117 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5118 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5119
512038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5121 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5122 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5123 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5124 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5125 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5126 remaining text gets split now.
5127
512839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5129 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5130 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5131 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5132
513340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5134 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5135 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5136 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5137 $return_path.
5138
513941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5140 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5141 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5142 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5143 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5144 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5145 passed through if needed.
5146
514742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5148 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5149 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5150 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5151 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5152 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5153
515443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5155 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5156 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5157 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5158 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5159
516044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5161 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5162 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5163 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5164 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5165
516645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5167 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5168 noticed.
5169
517046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5171 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5172 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5173 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5174 mayhem of various kinds.
5175
517647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5177 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5178 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5179 the right test for positive values.
5180
518148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5182 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5183 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5184 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5185 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5186 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5187 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5188 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5189 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5190 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5191 envelope.
5192
519349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5194 module.
5195
519650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5197 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5198 forbidding it.
5199
520051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5201 the existing equality matching.
5202
520352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5204 dealing with inode numbers.
5205
520653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5207 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5208 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5209
521054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5211 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5212 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5213 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5214 local_scan().
5215
521655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5217 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5218 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5219 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5220 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5221 relay addresses has also been removed.
5222
522356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5224
522557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5226 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5227 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5228
522958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5230 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5231 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5232 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5233 processing applies to CR:
5234
5235 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5236 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5237
5238 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5239 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5240 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5241 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5242
524359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5244 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5245 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5246
524760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5248 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5249 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5250 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5251 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5252 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5253 arisen.
5254
525561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5256 program routers.
5257
525862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5259 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5260 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5261 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5262 adds:
5263
5264 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5265
5266 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5267
5268 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5269
527063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5271 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5272 not considered personal.
5273
527464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5275
527665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5277
527866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5279
528067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5281 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5282 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5283 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5284 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5285 header lines, and spool format errors.
5286
528768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5288 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5289 for more flexibility.
5290
529169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5292 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5293 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5294
529570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5296 Sabourenkov.
5297
529871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5299 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5300 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5301 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5302 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5303 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5304 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5305 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5306 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5307
530872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5309 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5310 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5311 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5312 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5313 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5314 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5315
531673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5317 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5318 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5319
532074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5321 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5322 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5323 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5324 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5325 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5326 instead of killing the process with assert().
5327
532875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5329 than Unicode encoding.
5330
533176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5332 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5333 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5334 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5335
533677. Added process_log_path.
5337
533878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5339 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5340
534179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5342 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5343
534480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5345 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5346 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5347
534881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5349 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5350 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5351 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5352 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5353 were applied:
5354
5355 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5356 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5357 as invalid.
5358
535982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5360 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5361 they will be used during message reception.
5362
5363
5364Exim version 4.20
5365-----------------
5366
5367The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5368
5369****