Fix mime ACL filename decode
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.88
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
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13JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
22
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23JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
25
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26JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
28
0bd1b1ed 29JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 30 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 31
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32JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
34
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35JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
37
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38JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
39
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40JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
41 certificate).
42
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43JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
48
49JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
51
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52JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
57
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58JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
60
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61JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
62 Previously they were not counted.
63
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64JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
65 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
66 that needed the lookup.
67
803628d5 68JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a norml message arrival "<="; now
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69 distinguished as "(=".
70
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71JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
72 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
73
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74JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
75
76JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
77 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 78
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79JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quaratine results,
80 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
81
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82JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
83 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
84 compatible.
85
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86JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
87 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
88 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
89 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
90
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91JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
92
d7bed771 93JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the sourcecode
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94 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
95 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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97JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
98 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
99 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
100 be lost.
101
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102JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
103 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
104 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
105 itself :(
106
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107JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
108 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
109 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
110
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112Exim version 4.87
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114JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
115 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
116 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
117 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 118
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119TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
120 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
121
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122TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
123 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
124 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
125 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
126 outgoing I= field.
127
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128JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
129 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
130 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
131 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
132 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
133 check on the next write.
134
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135HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
136 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
137 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
138 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
139 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
140
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141JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
142 mime_regex ACL conditions.
143
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144JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
145 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
146 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
147
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148JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
149 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
150 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
151 an authenticate fail is not an error.
152
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153HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
154 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
155
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156JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
157 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
158
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159JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
160 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
161 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
162 distinct.
163
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164JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
165
166JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
167
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168JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
169
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170JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
171 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
172
98b98887 173JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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174 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
175
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176JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
177
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178JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
179 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
180
181JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
182
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183JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
184 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
185
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186JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
187
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188JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
189 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
190 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
191 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
192 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
193 they will retry in-clear.
194 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
195 at installation time.
196
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197HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
198 with the $config_file variable.
199
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200JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
201 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
202 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
203 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
204 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
205
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206GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
207 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
208 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
209 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
210 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
211
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212JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
213
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214JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
215 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
216 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
217 list order is no longer honoured.
218
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219JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
220 for DKIM processing.
221
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222JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
223 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 224
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225JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
226 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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227 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
228 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 229
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230JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
231 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
232
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233JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
234 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
235
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236JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
237 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
238
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239JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
240
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241JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
242 cached by the daemon.
243
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244JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
245 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
246
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247JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
248 keys are given for lookup.
249
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250JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
251 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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252 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
253 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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255JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
256 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
257 server-side so match that on older versions.
258
07c73177 259JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 260 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 261 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 262
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263JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
264 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
265
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266JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
267 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
268 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 269 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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270 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
271 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
272 initial truncated version.
273
ab9152ff 274JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 275
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276JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
277
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278JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
279 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
280
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281JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
282
bc3c7bb7 283HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 284
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285JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
286 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
287 induced overflows.
288
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289JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
290 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
291 stage.
292
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293JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
294 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
295
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296JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
297 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
298 former class.
299
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300JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
301 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
302 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
303
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304JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
305 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
306 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
307 extraction. Accept either.
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313JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
314 expanded.
315
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316JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
317
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318JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
319 it.
320
01a4a5c5 321JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 322 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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323 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
324 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
325
cb1d7830 326JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 327 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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328 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
329
610ff438 330JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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331 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
332 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
333 TLS connections
610ff438 334
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335JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
336 sites use this now.
337
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338JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
339 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
340 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
341 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
342 have a dsn_lasthop option.
343
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344JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
345 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 346 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 347
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348JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
349
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350JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
351 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
352
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353JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
354 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
355
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356JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
357 /defer_ok option.
358
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359JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
360 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
361
fd4d8871 362JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 363 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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364 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
365
366JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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367 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
368 specify a port-range.
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370JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
371 timeout value per server.
372
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373JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
374 now have the list separator specified.
375
8a512ed5 376JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 377 option values.
8a512ed5 378
82c0c8ea 379JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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380 under OpenSSL.
381
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382JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
383
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384JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
385 rather than the verbs used.
386
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387JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
388 from 255 to 1024 chars.
389
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390JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
391
cfab9d68 392HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 393 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 394
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395JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
396 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
397
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398HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
399 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
400
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401JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
402
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403JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
404
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405JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
406 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
407 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
408 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
409
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410JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
411
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412JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
413 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
414
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415JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
416 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
417
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418JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
419
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420JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
421
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422JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
423
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424JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
425 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
426
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427JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
428 added for tls authenticator.
429
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430HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
431
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433Exim version 4.85
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435TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
436 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
437 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
438 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
439 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
440 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
441 the script parsing/test process like normal.
442
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443TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
444 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
445 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
446 function when detected.
447
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448JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
449 cause callback expansion.
450
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451TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
452 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
453 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
454 instead of bool when processing it.
455
0f06b4f2 456JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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457 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
458
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459JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
460
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461JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
462
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463TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
464
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465TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
466 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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468JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
469 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
470 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
471 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
472 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
473 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
474
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475JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
476 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
477 exceeded it.
478
a7fec7a7
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479JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
480 version 3.3.6 or later.
481
774ef2d7
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482JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
483 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
484 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 485 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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486 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
487 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
488 option is defined.
774ef2d7 489
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490TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
491 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
492
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493JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
494 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
495 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
496 matches.
497
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498JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
499 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
500 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
501
ad4c5ff9
JH
502JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
503 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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504
505JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
506 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
507 syntax errors.
508
3394b36a 509JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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510
511JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
512 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
513
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514TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
515 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
516 tarball.
517
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518JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
519
520JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
521 Bug 1561.
522
523JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
524 output list separator was used.
525
8bc732e8 526
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527Exim version 4.84
528-----------------
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529TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
530 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
531 return.
1f0ebb98 532
a612424f
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533JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
534 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
535
536JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
537
538TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 539 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 540
1f0ebb98 541
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542Exim version 4.83
543-----------------
544
545TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
546
547 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
548 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
549 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
550 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
551 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
552 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
553
7245734e
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554TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
555 utilities have not been installed.
556
fd5dad68
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557JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
558 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
559
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560TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
561 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
562
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563TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
564 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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565 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
566 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 567
aa26e137
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568JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
569
5a1b8443
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570TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
571 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
572
72c9e342
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573PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
574 not dns_use_dnssec.
575
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576JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
577
770747fd
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578TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
579 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
580 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
581
8ddef691 582TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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583 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
584 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
585 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
586 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 587 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 588
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589JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
590
e45a1c37
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591JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
592 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
593
67d81c10
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594JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
595 failed delivery.
596
b1f8e4f8
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597JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
598
511a6c14 599JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
600
601JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
602 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 603
51c7471d
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604JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
605 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
606
3695be34
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607TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
608
1e06383a
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609JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
610
76146973
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611JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
612 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
613
614 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
615 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
616 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
617
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618TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
619 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
620 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
621 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 622
35aba663
JH
623JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
624
8c51eead 625JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
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626 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
627 lookup).
8c51eead 628
deae092e
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629TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
630 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
631 Schlichting.
35aba663 632
fd3b6a4a 633JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 634 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 635
8d91c6dc
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636TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
637 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
638
2b4a568d
JH
639JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
640
d2af03f4
HS
641TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
642 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
643 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
644
9d1c15ef
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645JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
646 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
647
44662487
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648JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
649 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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650 hosts_request_ocsp.
651
ed3bba5f 652JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 653 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 654 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 655
8ccd00b1
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656JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
657
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658TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
659 Christian Aistleitner.
660
f2de3a33
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661JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
662
6eb02f88
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663TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
664 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
665
00bff6f6
JH
666JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
667 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
668
071c51f7
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669JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
670 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
671
a6d4c44e
TF
672TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
673 support and error reporting did not work properly.
674
3ae173e7
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675TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
676 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
677
c13d09b8
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678TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
679 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
680 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
681
0df4ab80
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682JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
683
66be95e0
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684PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
685 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
686 Jasper Wallace.
687
1bd0d12b
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688JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
689
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690TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
691 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
692 CVE-2014-2972
693
fd3b6a4a 694
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696-----------------
697
698PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
699
12f69989
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700PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
701 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
702
54c90be1
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703PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
704 by GnuTLS.
705
1f4a55da
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706PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
707 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
708 routines.
709
13363eba 710PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 711
66645890 712PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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713 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
714 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
715 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
716 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 717
a3fb9793 718PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
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719 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
720 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
721 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 722 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 723 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 724
d27f98fe 725TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 726
6822b909
TL
727TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
728
e7568d51
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729TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
730 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
731
ae0e32ee 732TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 733 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 734 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
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735
736TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 737
e2658fff
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738TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
739
83712b39
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740TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
741 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
742
976b7e9f
JH
743JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
744
be4a1376
JH
745JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
746
ec4b68e5
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747PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
748
d7148a07
NM
749NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
750 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 751
585121e2 752JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 753
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754PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
755 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
756 function.
a5f239e4 757
13d08c90
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758PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
759 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
760
bef3ea7f
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761JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
762 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
763 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 764
846726c5
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765JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
766
3a796370
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767JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
768
ea722490 769JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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770 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
771
b1b05573
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772JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
773 Bugzilla 884.
774
362145b5
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775JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
776 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
777
3c0a92dc
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778JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
779 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
780
6d7c6175
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781PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
782 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 783 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 784
6f123593
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785JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
786 authenticators.
787
c8e2fc1e
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788JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
789 for control.
790
005ac57f
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791PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
792
3f1df0e3
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793PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
794 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
795 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
796 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
797
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798TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
799
800 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
801 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
802 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
803 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
804 the retry rules.
805
806 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
807 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
808 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
809
810 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
811 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
812 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
813 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
814
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815 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
816 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
817 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
818 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
819 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
820 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
821 delivery, as in LMTP.
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822
823 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
824 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
825
326cdc37
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826TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
827
828 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
829
830 Resent-From: f
831
832 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
833 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
834 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
835 username as equal to the username.
836
837 This change corrects that bug.
838
f62514b3
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839GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
840 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
841 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
842
eb505532
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843TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
844
14c7b357
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845PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
846 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
847 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
848 NULL dereference and crash.
849
94eaf700
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850JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
851
6f5a440a
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852PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
853 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
854 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
855
514ee161
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856SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
857
fd98a5c6
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858JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
859 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
860 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
861 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
862 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
863 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
864 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
865 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
866 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
867 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
868 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
869
035c7f1e
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870PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
871 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
872
ff284120
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873PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
874 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
875 Bugzilla 880.
876
26e72755
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877PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
878 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
879 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
880 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
881 an empty string is now equivalent.
882
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883PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
884 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
885 not performing validation itself.
886
700d22f3
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887PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
888 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
889
fcc8e047
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890JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
891 Bugzilla 321, 823.
892
7142daca
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893TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
894
8c020188
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895PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
896 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
897 other false fix of the same issue.
898 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
899 Bugzilla 1363.
900
d13cdd30
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901PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
902 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
903
e2fbf4a2
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904PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
905 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
906 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
907
f4c1088b
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908PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
909 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
910 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
911
c5c2182f
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912TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
913
73431ca9
JH
914JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
915
2d07a215
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916TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
917 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
918
a30a8861
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919TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
920 Alexander Miroch.
921
33382dd9
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922TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
923 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
924 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
925 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
926 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 927
046172e6
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928TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
929 the src/util/ subdirectory.
930
581d7bee 931TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 932 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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933 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
934
935TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
936 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
937 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
938 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
939
237b2cf2
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940TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
941
9fc5a352
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942TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
943 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
944 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 945
b10e4ec2
TL
946TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
947
e2cebd74
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948TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
949 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
950 interaction.
951
952TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
953 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
954
2519e60d
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955TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
956 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
957
e78e6ecf 958
4263f395
PP
959Exim version 4.80.1
960-------------------
961
962PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
963 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 964 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 965
ea722490 966
b1770b6e 967Exim version 4.80
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969
970PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
971 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
972 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
973
23c7e742
NM
974NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
975
b322aac8
NM
976NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
977 improved.
978
4a891427
NM
979NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
980
c1e794ba 981PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 982
97753960
PP
983PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
984
985PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
986 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
987
df6303fa
PP
988PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
989 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
990
7e6a8985
PP
991PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
992 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
993
f1e05cc7 994PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
995 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
996 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 997
4c287009
PP
998PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
999
b98bb9ac
PP
1000PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1001 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1002
4a6a987a
PP
1003PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1004
c45dd180 1005PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1006
7db8d074
PP
1007PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1008 non-compliant senders.
1009 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1010
eae0036b 1011NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1012 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1013 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1014
dec5017e
PP
1015PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1016 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1017 in spool file corruption.
1018
c80c5570
PP
1019PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1020 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1021 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1022 "Got SSL error 2".
1023
076b11e2
PP
1024TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1025 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1026 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1027
5407bfff
JH
1028JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1029 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1030
9e45c72b
PP
1031JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1032
e74376d8
PP
1033PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1034 diagnostics.
1035 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1036
da3ad30d
PP
1037PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
1038 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1039 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1040
7be682ca
PP
1041PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1042 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1043 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1044 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1045
ef840681
PP
1046PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1047 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1048
5bfb4cdf
PP
1049PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1050 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1051 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1052 resolver implementation change.
1053
c6e95d22
PP
1054PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1055 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1056
9cbad13b
PP
1057PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1058
9ee44efb
PP
1059PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1060
6a6084f8
PP
1061PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1062 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1063
12dd53c7
PP
1064PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1065 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1066
9e45c72b 1067JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1068 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1069
17c76198
PP
1070PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1071 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1072 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1073 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1074 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1075
53947857 1076PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1077
eae0036b 1078PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1079 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1080 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1081
9e45c72b 1082JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1083
7390e768
PP
1084PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1085 read-only, out of scope).
1086 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1087
08488c86
PP
1088PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1089 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1090 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1091 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1092
6475bd82
PP
1093PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1094
81f91683
PP
1095PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1096 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1097 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1098 real issues in debug logging.
1099
5779e6aa
PP
1100PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1101 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1102
3375e053
PP
1103PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1104 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1105 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1106
1107PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1108 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1109 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1110 problems.
3375e053 1111
9d26b8c0
PP
1112PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1113 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1114
57eb9e91 1115PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1116 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1117 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1118 needs to override this, it can.
1119
16880d1a
PP
1120PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1121 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1122 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1123
a799883d
PP
1124PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1125 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1126 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1127 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1128
3ecab157 1129PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1130
0599f9cf 1131
867fcbf5
PP
1132Exim version 4.77
1133-----------------
1134
1135PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1136 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1137
f1a29782
TF
1138TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1139
ab42bd23
TK
1140TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1141 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1142
0ca0cf52
TF
1143TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1144 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1145
921b12ca
TF
1146TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1147 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1148 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1149
1150 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1151 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1152 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1153 not safe for signals.
1154
1155 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1156 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1157 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1158 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1159 exiwhat.
1160
c99ce5c9
TF
1161TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1162
1163 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1164 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1165 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1166 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1167 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1168
1169 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1170 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1171 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1172 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1173 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1174 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1175
1176 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1177 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1178 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1179 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1180
1181 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1182 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1183 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1184 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1185
1186 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1187 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1188 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1189 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1190 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1191 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1192 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1193 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1194 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1195
1196 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1197 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1198 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1199 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1200
1201 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1202 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1203 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1204 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1205 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1206 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1207 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1208 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1209 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1210 details in the main documentation.
1211
3634fc25
TF
1212TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1213
792e8a19
TF
1214TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1215
5901f0ab
TF
1216TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1217 repository when doing development or release builds.
1218
7f2a2a43
PP
1219PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1220 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1221
061b7ebd
PP
1222PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1223 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1224 Bugzilla 97.
1225
e12f8c32
PP
1226PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1227
9e949f00 1228PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1229 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1230
1231PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1232 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1233
555ae6af 1234PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1235 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1236
1237PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1238 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1239
6f7fe114
PP
1240PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1241 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1242
c566dd90
PP
1243PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1244 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1245 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1246 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1247
d6cc7c78 1248PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1249 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1250 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1251
0d0e4455
PP
1252PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1253
3399bb60 1254PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1255
1256PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1257 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1258
0ca0cf52 1259
10906672
PP
1260Exim version 4.76
1261-----------------
1262
1263PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1264
754a0503
PP
1265PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1266 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1267
c0c7b2da
PP
1268PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1269
e97d1f08
PP
1270PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1271
084c1d8c
PP
1272PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1273 Bugzilla 1098.
1274
4e7ee012
PP
1275PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1276 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1277
c8d52a00
PP
1278TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1279 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1280
54e7ce4a
PP
1281PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1282 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1283
5ee6f336
PP
1284PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1285 Bugzilla 1104.
1286
c8d52a00 1287TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1288 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1289
1290TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1291 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1292 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1293 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1294
1295PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1296 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1297
10906672 1298
aa097c4c
NM
1299Exim version 4.75
1300-----------------
1301
4c9ef03a 1302NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1303 Bugzilla 1073
1304
7f3d9eff
TF
1305TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1306 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1307 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1308
159f52d2
TF
1309TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1310 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1311
0cc9542a
PP
1312PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1313 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1314 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1315
f7274286
PP
1316PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1317 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1318
7b797365
PP
1319PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1320 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1321
caacae52
NM
1322NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1323 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1324
09dcaba9
NM
1325NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1326 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1327
bc19a55b
PP
1328PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1329 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1330
bd4c9759
NM
1331NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1332 Fixes bug 943.
1333
b72aab72
PP
1334PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1335 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1336
2fe76745
PP
1337PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1338 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1339
76aa570c
PP
1340PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1341 SQL string expansion failure details.
1342 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1343
f1e5fef5
PP
1344PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1345 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1346
4d805ee9
PP
1347PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1348 extern declarations in function scope.
1349 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1350
cd59ab18
PP
1351PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1352 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1353 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1354 a kernel bug).
1355
332f5cf3
PP
1356PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1357 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1358
29cfeb94
PP
1359PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1360 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1361
660242ad
PP
1362PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1363 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1364
bc4bc4c5
PP
1365PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1366 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1367
2e64baa9
NM
1368NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1369 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1370 Dennis Davis.
1371
bddd7526
PP
1372PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1373
6bac1a9a
PP
1374PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1375
552193f0
NM
1376NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1377 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1378
1b587e48
TF
1379TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1380 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1381
aa097c4c 1382
8c07b69f
TF
1383Exim version 4.74
1384-----------------
1385
1386TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1387 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1388
c0ea85ab
TF
1389TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1390 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1391
0761d44e
TF
1392TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1393
0a349494
PP
1394DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1395 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1396 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1397
1398PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1399 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1400 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1401
fea24b2e
PP
1402PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1403 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1404 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1405 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1406
6545de78
PP
1407PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1408 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1409 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1410 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1411
1670ef10
PP
1412PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1413 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1414 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1415 arbitrary files.
1416
c0886197
PP
1417PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1418 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1419
b7487bce
PP
1420PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1421 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1422 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1423 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1424 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1425
8c07b69f 1426
97fd1e48 1427Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1428-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1429
1430PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1431 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1432 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1433
6901c596
PP
1434PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1435 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1436
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1437JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1438
77bb000f
PP
1439PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1440
a29e5231
PP
1441PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1442
ec5a0394 1443PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1444
55c75993
PP
1445PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1446
453a6645 1447PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1448 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1449 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1450 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1451
8544e77a
PP
1452PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1453 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1454 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1455 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1456 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1457
83e029d5
PP
1458PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1459
ed7f7860
PP
1460PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1461
7d9f747b
PP
1462PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1463
4b2241d2
PP
1464PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1465
10385c15
PP
1466PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1467
dbc4b90d
PP
1468PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1469
532be449
PP
1470PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1471
6a8de854 1472PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1473 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1474 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1475
5dc43717
JJ
1476JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1477
1478JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1479 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1480
3346ab01
PP
1481PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1482 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1483
491fab4c
PP
1484PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1485 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1486 Notification from John Horne.
1487
13eb9497
PP
1488PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1489 compatible.
1490
1491PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1492 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1493 it normally works.
1494
7f36d675
DW
1495DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1496 access.
1497
c1d94452
DW
1498DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1499 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1500 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1501
e2f5dc15
DW
1502DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1503 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1504 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1505 configuration file.
1506
cd25e41d
DW
1507DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1508 option (effectively making it always true).
1509
261dc43e
DW
1510DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1511 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1512
fa32850b
DW
1513DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1514 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1515
79d4bc3d
PP
1516PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1517 run-time user, instead of root.
1518
43236f35 1519PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1520 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1521
fb08281f
DW
1522DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1523 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1524 arguments.
3346ab01 1525
74935b98
DW
1526DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1527 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1528 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1529
90b6341f
DW
1530DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1531
57730b52
ML
1532NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1533
66581d1e 1534
465e92cf
JJ
1535Exim version 4.72
1536-----------------
1537
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PP
1538JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1539 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1540 typos
465e92cf 1541
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PP
1542JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1543 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1544 (Finput)
edae0343 1545
9bd3e22c
NM
1546NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1547 Patch from Alain Williams
1548
bb576ff7
NM
1549NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1550
5a1a5845
NM
1551NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1552 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1553
981a9fad
NM
1554NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1555 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1556
7fc497ee
NM
1557NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1558
1a41defa
JJ
1559JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1560
a466095c 1561NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1562 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1563
94a6bd0b
NM
1564TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1565
1566TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1567
1568MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1569 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1570 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1571
c1b141a8
NM
1572NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1573 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1574
b26eacf1 1575NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1576 Patch by Simon Arlott
1577
179c5980 1578PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1579 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1580
9bd3e22c 1581
7c6d71af
NM
1582Exim version 4.71
1583-----------------
1584
7d9f747b 1585TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1586
f013fb92
NM
1587NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1588
0eb8eedd
NM
1589NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1590
663ee6d9
NM
1591NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1592
177ebd9b
NM
1593NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1594
7c6d71af 1595
210f147e
NM
1596Exim version 4.70
1597-----------------
1598
cdd3bb85 1599TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1600 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1601
1602TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1603 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1604 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1605
1606TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1607 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1608 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1609
1610TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1611 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1612
210f147e
NM
1613NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1614 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1615 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1616 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1617
deafd5b3
NM
1618NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1619 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1620 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1621
089793a4
TF
1622TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1623
5f16ca82
TF
1624TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1625
dae9d94e 1626NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1627 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1628
7d9f747b 1629NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1630
06864c44
TF
1631TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1632 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1633 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1634 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1635
65a7d8c3 1636NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1637 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1638
23510047 1639TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1640
7d9f747b 1641NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1642
7d8eec3a 1643NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1644 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1645
89dec7b6
TF
1646TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1647 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1648
a99de90c
TF
1649TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1650 that they are available at delivery time.
1651
e2803e40
TF
1652TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1653
7199e1ee
TF
1654TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1655 incoming_port log selectors.
1656
e276e04b
TF
1657TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1658 setting expands to an empty string.
1659
ce552449 1660NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1661 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1662
e765a0f1 1663NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1664 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1665
4f054c63 1666NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1667 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1668
7d9f747b
PP
1669NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1670 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1671
7d9f747b
PP
1672NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1673 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1674
b52bc06e 1675NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1676 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1677
447de4b0
NM
1678NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1679
4c69d561 1680NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1681 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1682
d5c39246 1683NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1684 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1685
0b23848a
TK
1686TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1687
8f3414a1 1688NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1689 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1690
fb6f955d
NM
1691NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1692
1693NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1694
7d9f747b
PP
1695NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1696 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1697
7d9f747b
PP
1698NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1699 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1700
7d9f747b
PP
1701NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1702 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1703
7d9f747b
PP
1704NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1705 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1706
7d9f747b
PP
1707NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1708 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1709
7d9f747b
PP
1710NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1711 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1712
7d9f747b
PP
1713NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1714 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1715
7d9f747b 1716NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1717 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1718
7d9f747b 1719NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1720
7d9f747b
PP
1721NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1722 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1723
7d9f747b 1724NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1725
7d9f747b 1726NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1727
7d9f747b 1728NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1729
7d9f747b 1730NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1731
17792b53 1732NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1733 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1734
7d9f747b
PP
1735NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1736 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1737
91576cec 1738NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1739 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1740
7d9f747b
PP
1741NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1742 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1743
7d9f747b 1744NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1745
7d9f747b 1746NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1747
7d9f747b 1748NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1749
7d9f747b 1750NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1751
deafd5b3 1752
47db1125
NM
1753Exim version 4.69
1754-----------------
1755
4b3504d0
TK
1756TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1757 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1758 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1759
1760 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1761 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1762 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1763 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1764 build errors in sieve.c.
1765
81ea09ca
NM
1766NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1767 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1768 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1769
f13cddcb
SC
1770SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1771
7d9f747b 1772NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1773
7d9f747b 1774NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1775
7d9f747b 1776NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1777
1778
eb4c0de6
PH
1779Exim version 4.68
1780-----------------
1781
1782PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1783
6a3bceb1
PH
1784PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1785 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1786 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1787 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1788 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1789 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1790 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1791 for iplsearch lookups.
1792
1793 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1794 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1795 previously such lookups could never work.
1796
1797 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1798 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1799 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1800
2e30fa9d
TK
1801TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1802 version.
1803
0806a9c5
MH
1804MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1805 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1806 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1807 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1808 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1809 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1810
ae276964
TK
1811TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1812 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1813
0f2cbd1b
MH
1814MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1815 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1816 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1817 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1818 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1819 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1820
2b85bce7
PH
1821PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1822 local_scan API.
1823
93655c46
PH
1824PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1825
6c512171
PH
1826PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1827 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1828 encrypted.
1829
1830PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1831 by clients under certain conditions.
1832
aa6dc513
PH
1833PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1834 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1835
a96603a0
PH
1836PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1837
8f240103
PH
1838PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1839 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1840
1841PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1842
d677b2f2
PH
1843PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1844
d52120f2
PH
1845PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1846
64f2600a
PH
1847PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1848 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1849
8669f003
PH
1850PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1851
a4dc33a8
PH
1852PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1853 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1854
d6a60c0f
PH
1855PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1856
8f128379
PH
1857PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1858
8932dffe
PH
1859PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1860 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1861 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1862 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1863
ddea74fa 1864PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1865 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1866 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1867
ddea74fa 1868PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1869 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1870
ddea74fa
PH
1871PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1872
ce9f225c
PH
1873PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1874
19897d52
PH
1875PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1876
bc64a74d
PH
1877PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1878 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1879 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1880
eb4c0de6 1881
b4ed4da0
PH
1882Exim version 4.67
1883-----------------
1884
22ad45c9
MH
1885MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1886 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1887 Jan Srzednicki.
1888
b4ed4da0
PH
1889PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1890 issue a MAIL command.
1891
431b7361
PH
1892PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1893
1894 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1895
1896 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1897 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1898 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1899 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1900 item. This has been fixed.
1901
1902PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1903 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1904
83da1223
PH
1905PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1906 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1907
54fc8428
PH
1908PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1909 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1910 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1911
34c5e8dd
SC
1912SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1913
bbe15da8
PH
1914PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1915 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1916 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1917 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1918 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1919
0e8a9471
MH
1920MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1921 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1922 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1923
f0872424
PH
1924PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1925 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1926 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1927 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1928
b01dd148
PH
1929PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1930
6bf342e1
PH
1931PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1932
273f34d0
PH
1933PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1934 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1935 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1936 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1937 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1938
cf8b11a5
PH
1939PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1940
41c7c167
PH
1941PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1942 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1943 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1944 values).
1945
9c57cbc0
PH
1946PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1947
f3f065bb
PH
1948PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1949
047bdd8c
PH
1950PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1951
0ce9abe6
PH
1952PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1953
0e22dfd1
PH
1954PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1955
4c590bd1
PH
1956PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1957 no_callout_flush is set.
1958
09945f1e
PH
1959PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1960 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1961 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1962 fixed.
1963
c51b8e75
PH
1964PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1965
e28326d8
PH
1966PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1967 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1968 other ACL rejections are.
1969
75b1493f
PH
1970PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1971 with slight modification.
1972
7c5214ec
PH
1973PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1974 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1975
4311097e
PH
1976PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1977 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1978 connection.
1979
29f89cad
PH
1980PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1981 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1982
5e687460
SC
1983SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1984
c3611384
PH
1985PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1986 expansion side effects.
1987
5a11a7b4
PH
1988PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1989 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1990 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1991 be the same.
1992
0e20aff9
MH
1993MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1994 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1995 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1996
ca86f471
PH
1997PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1998 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1999 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2000 were accidentally chopped off.
2001
a14e5636
PH
2002PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2003 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2004 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2005 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2006 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2007 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2008 pipelining has not been advertised.
2009
ec95d1a6
PH
2010PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2011
42855d71
PH
2012PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2013 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2014 This has been fixed.
2015
57c2c631
PH
2016PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2017 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2018 reported on Solaris.
2019
58c01c94
PH
2020PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2021 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2022 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2023 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2024 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2025 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2026 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2027
dee5a20a
PH
2028PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2029 cpus.
2030
d2ee6114
PH
2031PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2032
b2d5182b
PH
2033PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2034
79749a79
PH
2035PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2036 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2037 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2038 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2039 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2040 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2041
c456d9bb
PH
2042PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2043 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2044 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2045 host_all_ignored option.
2046
cd9868ec
PH
2047PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2048 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2049 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2050 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2051 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2052 is what is supposed to happen).
2053
ebeaf996
PH
2054PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2055 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2056 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2057 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2058 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2059 uses the Exim user.
2060
2679d413
PH
2061PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2062 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2063 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2064 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2065 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2066 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2067 users.
2068
84024b72
PH
2069PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2070
8005d38e
SC
2071SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2072 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2073 (Jez Hancock).
2074 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2075 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2076
3298c6c6
SC
2077SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2078
a43a27c5
PH
2079PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2080
58eb016e 2081PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2082 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2083 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2084 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2085 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2086 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2087 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2088 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2089 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2090 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2091 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2092
b43a74ea
PH
2093PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2094 advertised in response to EHLO.
2095
b4ed4da0 2096
5dd1517f
PH
2097Exim version 4.66
2098-----------------
2099
2100PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2101 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2102
2103 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2104 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2105
2106 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2107 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2108 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2109
2110 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2111 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2112 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2113 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2114 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2115
2116
93cfa765
TK
2117Exim version 4.65
2118-----------------
2119
2120TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2121 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2122 versions. (#438)
2123
d6066548
MH
2124MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2125 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2126 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2127
4362ff0d
PH
2128PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2129 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2130 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2131 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2132 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2133 rather than extend the field.
2134
93cfa765 2135
944e9e9c
TF
2136Exim version 4.64
2137-----------------
aa41d2de 2138
21d74bd9
TK
2139TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2140 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2141 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2142 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2143 these files.
2144
2145TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2146 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2147 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2148
2149TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2150 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2151 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2152
2153TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2154 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2155 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2156 in the field name.
2157
2b1c6e3a
PH
2158PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2159 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2160 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2161 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2162 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2163 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2164 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2165 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2166 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2167 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2168 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2169
1f872c80
PH
2170PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2171 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2172
2173PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2174 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2175 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2176 ignores EPIPE as well.
2177
d203e649
PH
2178PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2179 (quoted-printable decoding).
2180
cc2ed8f7 2181PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2182 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2183
ddfcd446
PH
2184PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2185
d45b1de8
PH
2186PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2187
2188PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2189
38a0a95f 2190PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2191 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2192
a2405d83
JJ
2193JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2194 in 4.64-PH/09.
2195
2196JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2197 miscellaneous code fixes
2198
6ea85e9a
PH
2199PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2200 rejections.
2201
26da7e20
PH
2202PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2203 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2204 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2205 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2206 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2207 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2208 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2209 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2210
14aa5a05 2211PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2212 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2213 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2214 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2215 function.
2216 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2217 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2218 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2219 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2220 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2221 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2222 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2223 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2224 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2225
ff75a1f7
PH
2226PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2227 decoding.
2228
e6f6568e
PH
2229PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2230 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2231 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2232 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2233 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2234 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2235 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2236 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2237
d6f6e0dc
PH
2238PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2239 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2240 list.
2241
322050c2
PH
2242PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2243 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2244 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2245 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2246 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2247 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2248 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2249 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2250 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2251 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2252 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2253 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2254 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2255
08955dd3
PH
2256PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2257 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2258 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2259 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2260 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2261 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2262 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2263
1eccaa59
PH
2264PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2265 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2266 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2267 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2268 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2269 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2270 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2271 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2272 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2273 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2274
602e59e5
PH
2275PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2276 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2277 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2278 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2279 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2280
411ef850
PH
2281PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2282 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2283 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2284 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2285 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2286 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2287 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2288
7befa435
PH
2289PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2290 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2291 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2292 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2293 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2294 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2295 been verified.
2296
48da4259 2297PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2298 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2299 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2300 and authorization.)
2301
48da4259
PH
2302PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2303 if any retry times were supplied.
2304
d1d5595c
PH
2305PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2306 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2307 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2308
0ef732d9
PH
2309PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2310
328895cc
PH
2311PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2312
fd700877
PH
2313PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2314 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2315 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2316 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2317 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2318 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2319
8dce1a6f
PH
2320PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2321 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2322
17af4a17
PH
2323PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2324 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2325 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2326
2327PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2328 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2329 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2330 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2331 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2332 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2333 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2334 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2335 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2336
2337 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2338 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2339 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2340 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2341 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2342 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2343 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2344 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2345 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2346
2347 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2348 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2349 hammering the server.
2350
c1114884
PH
2351PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2352 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2353
7a0743eb
PH
2354PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2355
0d85fa3f
PH
2356PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2357 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2358 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2359
1bf43b78
PH
2360PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2361 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2362 one case where this was not true.
2363
520de300
PH
2364PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2365 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2366 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2367 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2368 fails.
2369
48c7f9e2
PH
2370PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2371 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2372 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2373 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2374 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2375 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2376 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2377 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2378 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2379 smtp transport.
2380
99ea1c86
PH
2381PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2382 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2383 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2384 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2385
a2042e78
PH
2386PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2387 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2388
4fbcfc2e
PH
2389PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2390 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2391 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2392
aa41d2de
PH
2393PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2394
af561417
PH
2395PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2396
3cc66b45
PH
2397PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2398
194cc0e4
PH
2399PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2400 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2401 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2402 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2403
a401ddaa
PH
2404PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2405 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2406
4e88a19f
PH
2407PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2408 be meaningful with "accept".
2409
d7d7b289
SC
2410SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2411 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2412
2413SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2414 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2415 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2416
2417SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2418 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2419 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2420 there is data to show.
2421 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2422
2423SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2424 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2425 as well as the number of messages.
2426
2427SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2428 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2429 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2430
2431SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2432 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2433 have a flag are now skipped.
2434
2435SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2436 Added the -emptyok flag.
2437
2438SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2439 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2440
0ea2a468
JJ
2441JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2442 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2443 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2444
2445JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2446 match 4.64-PH/13
2447
2448JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2449 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2450
2451JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2452
2453JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2454 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2455
8a10f5a4
PH
2456PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2457
30e18802
PH
2458PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2459 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2460 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2461 contravention of the specifications.
2462
55728a4f
PH
2463PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2464 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2465 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2466
d7837193
PH
2467PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2468 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2469 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2470
87054a31
PH
2471PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2472
ea2c01d2
MH
2473MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2474 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2475 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2476 some point in the past.
2477
e4fa6968
PH
2478PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2479 transport during callout processing was broken.
2480
56f5d9bd
PH
2481PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2482 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2483
922e1c28
PH
2484PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2485 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2486
21eb6e72
PH
2487PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2488 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2489
a0540757
PH
2490PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2491
944e9e9c 2492
478be7b0
SC
2493Exim version 4.63
2494-----------------
2495
2496SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2497 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2498
2499SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2500 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2501 there is data to show.
2502 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2503
2504SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2505 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2506
2b965a65
TF
2507TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2508 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2509
45b91596
PH
2510TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2511 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2512
c59f5781
TF
2513TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2514 submissions from trusted users.
2515
90fc3069
TF
2516TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2517 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2518
6083aca0
TF
2519TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2520 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2521 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2522 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2523 there is now a framework to start from.
2524
765b530f
PH
2525PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2526 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2527 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2528
4e167a8c
PH
2529PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2530
4608d683
PH
2531PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2532
b8dc3e4a
PH
2533PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2534
5418e93b
PH
2535PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2536 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2537 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2538
b4a9bda2
PH
2539PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2540 libradius.
2541
45b91596
PH
2542PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2543 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2544 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2545
5547e2c5
PH
2546PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2547 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2548 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2549 its arguments.
2550
dbcef0ea
PH
2551PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2552 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2553 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2554 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2555 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2556
25257489
PH
2557PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2558 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2559
c816d124
PH
2560PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2561
a9ccd69a
PH
2562PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2563 operations in malware.c.
2564
75fa1910
PH
2565PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2566 signatures.
2567
a7d7aa58
PH
2568PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2569 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2570 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2571 all.
2572
42119b09
PH
2573PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2574 statements to "add_header".
2575
41609df5
PH
2576PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2577 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2578
a5bd321b
PH
2579PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2580 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2581 latter.
2582
e85a7ad5 2583PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2584 so that it is now:
2585
e85a7ad5
PH
2586 ${if or { \
2587 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2588 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2589 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2590 }{no}{yes}}
2591
e85a7ad5
PH
2592 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2593 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2594
d8fe1c03
PH
2595PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2596 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2597
16282d2b
PH
2598PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2599 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2600 any possible encoding problems.
2601
35d40a98
PH
2602PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2603 but not after initializing Perl.
2604
034d99ab
PH
2605PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2606 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2607 apparently, which is not desirable.
2608
6ec97b1b
PH
2609PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2610 queries.
2611
e22ca4ac
JJ
2612JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2613 --not options
2614
2615JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2616
33d73e3b
PH
2617PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2618 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2619 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2620 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2621
9ecb03f3
PH
2622PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2623 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2624 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2625
084efe8d
PH
2626PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2627 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2628 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2629 0.12.
2630
366fc9f0
PH
2631PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2632 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2633 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2634 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2635 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2636
c59f5781 2637
c887c79e
TF
2638Exim version 4.62
2639-----------------
2640
2641TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2642 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2643
1cce3af8
PH
2644PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2645 patch).
2646
afb3eaaf
PH
2647PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2648 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2649 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2650 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2651 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2652 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2653 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2654 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2655 451 error is used.
2656
e173618b
PH
2657PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2658
dd16e114
PH
2659PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2660 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2661 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2662
f7fd3850
PH
2663PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2664 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2665 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2666 odd errors.
2667
d87df92c
PH
2668PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2669 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2670
7e9f683d
PH
2671PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2672 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2673 option (which defaults to 0600).
2674
bfad5236
PH
2675PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2676
01c490df
PH
2677PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2678 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2679 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2680 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2681 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2682 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2683 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2684
d6629cdc
PH
2685PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2686
1cce3af8 2687
214e2000
PH
2688Exim version 4.61
2689-----------------
2690
2691PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2692 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2693 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2694 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2695 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2696 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2697 addresses as local.
2698
f9daeae0
PH
2699PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2700 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2701
7e66e54d
PH
2702PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2703
c8ea1597
PH
2704PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2705 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2706 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2707 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2708 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2709 grumble.
2710
911f6fde
PH
2711PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2712 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2713
47ca6d6c
PH
2714PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2715 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2716 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2717 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2718 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2719
ed0e9820
PH
2720PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2721 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2722 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2723 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2724
eff37e47
PH
2725PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2726 be the same on different OS.
2727
1921d2ea
PH
2728PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2729 testing.
2730
b3f69ca8
JJ
2731JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2732 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2733
2734JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2735 in 4.61-PH/06
2736
424a1c63
PH
2737PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2738 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2739 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2740 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2741 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2742 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2743 bounce message.
2744
7a100415
PH
2745PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2746 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2747 when Exim was called.
2748
19b9dc85
PH
2749PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2750 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2751
309bd837
PH
2752PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2753 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2754 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2755 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2756
59e82a2a
PH
2757PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2758 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2759 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2760 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2761 changes:
2762
2763 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2764 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2765 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2766
2767 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2768 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2769 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2770
9edc04ce
PH
2771PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2772 feature).
2773
1349e1e5
PH
2774PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2775 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2776 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2777 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2778 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2779 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2780 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2781 values from the SRV records were lost.
2782
ea49d0e1
PH
2783PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2784 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2785 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2786
064a94c9
PH
2787PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2788 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2789 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2790
727071f8
PH
2791PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2792 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2793 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2794 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2795 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2796 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2797 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2798 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2799 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2800 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2801
f78eb7c6
PH
2802PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2803 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2804 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2805
21c28500
PH
2806PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2807 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2808
2809PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2810 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2811 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2812 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2813 is given.
2814
1688f43b
PH
2815PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2816 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2817 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2818
2819PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2820 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2821 PH/23 above applies.
2822
9675b384
PH
2823PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2824 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2825 (for which there is an explicit test).
2826
6a3f1455
PH
2827PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2828
dac79d3e
PH
2829PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2830 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2831 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2832 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2833 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2834
5977a0b3
PH
2835PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2836 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2837 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2838 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2839
c91535f3
PH
2840PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2841 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2842 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2843
0d46a8c8
PH
2844PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2845
278c6e6c
PH
2846PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2847
2cbb4081
PH
2848PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2849 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2850 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2851
3eef829e
PH
2852PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2853 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2854 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2855 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2856 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2857
1ab95fa6
PH
2858PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2859 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2860 the message gets confusing).
2861
230205fc
PH
2862PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2863 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2864 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2865 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2866
75e0e026
PH
2867PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2868 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2869 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2870 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2871 same order.
2872
2873PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2874 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2875 the different processes.
2876
145396a6
PH
2877PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2878
3cd34f13
PH
2879PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2880
11121d3d
JJ
2881JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2882 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2883
2884JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2885 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2886
2887JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2888 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2889 messages matching specified criteria.
2890
8def5aaf
PH
2891PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2892
929ba01c
PH
2893PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2894 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2895
2632889e
PH
2896PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2897 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2898 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2899 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2900 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2901 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2902 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2903 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2904 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2905 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2906
944a9c55
PH
2907PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2908 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2909 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2910
4a23603b
PH
2911PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2912
4730f942
PH
2913PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2914 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2915 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2916 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2917 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2918 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2919 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2920 the variable.
2921
30dba1e6
PH
2922PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2923 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2924
382afc6b
PH
2925PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2926
a86229cf
PH
2927PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2928
50c99ba6
PH
2929PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2930
d35e429d
PH
2931PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2932 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2933 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2934 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2935 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2936 size of the count of files.
2937
f90d018c
PH
2938PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2939
75def545
PH
2940PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2941 used in LMTP mode:
2942
2943 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2944 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2945 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2946 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2947
2948 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2949 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2950 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2951
2952PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2953 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2954 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2955 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2956 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2957
c46782ef
PH
2958PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2959 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2960
71fafd95
PH
2961PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2962 will now be deprecated.
2963
2c5db4fd
PH
2964PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2965
9cf6b11a
JJ
2966JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2967 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2968 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2969
2970JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2971 with very large, slow to parse queues
2972
2973JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2974
2975JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2976
898d150f
PH
2977PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2978 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2979 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2980 SMTP output lines.
2981
46218253
PH
2982PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2983 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2984 Sieve code now uses this.
2985
e97957bc
PH
2986PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2987 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2988
81e509d7
PH
2989PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2990 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2991
3d240ff7
PH
2992PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2993
b37c4101
PH
2994PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2995 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2996 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2997 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2998 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2999
79378e0f
PH
3000PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3001 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3002 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3003 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3004
e49c7bb4
PH
3005PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3006
d114ec46
PH
3007PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3008
f3d7df6c
PH
3009PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3010 is preferred over IPv4.
3011
715ab376
PH
3012PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3013 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3014 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3015 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3016 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3017 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3018 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3019
6b31b150
PH
3020PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3021 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3022 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3023
3024PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3025
d515a917
PH
3026PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3027 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3028 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3029 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3030 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3031 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3032 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3033 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3034 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3035 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3036 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3037
9b8fadde
PH
3038PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3039 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3040 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3041
214e2000 3042
5de37277
PH
3043Exim version 4.60
3044-----------------
3045
cc38ddbf
PH
3046PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3047
3048 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3049 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3050
3051 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3052 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3053 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3054
72fdd6ae
PH
3055PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3056
3057 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3058 not a single digit.
3059
3060 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3061 string.
3062
3063 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3064 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3065 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3066 silly things.
3067
3068 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3069 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3070
3071 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3072 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3073
cb741023
PH
3074PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3075 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3076 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3077
f174f16e
PH
3078PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3079 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3080
c25242d7
PH
3081PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3082 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3083
3084 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3085
3086 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3087 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3088 this:
3089
3090 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3091
82c19f95
PH
3092PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3093 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3094 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3095 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3096 identical. For example:
3097
3098 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3099
3100 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3101 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3102 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3103
d7ffbc12
PH
3104PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3105 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3106 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3107 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3108
9f526266
PH
3109PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3110 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3111 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3112 message.
3113
87fcc8b9
PH
3114PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3115
3116 o fixes some comments
3117 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3118 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3119 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3120 and documents the missing references header update
3121
3122 and most important:
3123
3124 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3125 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3126 result)
3127
456682f5
PH
3128PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3129 Electronic Mail") by including:
3130
3131 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3132
3133 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3134 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3135 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3136 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3137 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3138
3139 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3140
3141 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3142
3143 The auto-replied keyword:
3144
3145 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3146 message by an automatic process,
3147
3148 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3149
3150 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3151 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3152
3153 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3154 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3155 other messages.
3156
3e46c1aa
PH
3157PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3158 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3159
49826d12
PH
3160PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3161
eba0c039
PH
3162PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3163 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3164 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3165
a0d6ba8a
PH
3166PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3167 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3168 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3169
f0917727
PH
3170PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3171 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3172 and treats the condition as false.
3173
096fee00
PH
3174PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3175
024bd3c2
PH
3176PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3177 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3178 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3179 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3180 not changing the active code.
3181
3182 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3183 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3184
3185 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3186 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3187
df199fec
PH
3188PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3189 (Bugzilla #53).
3190
d27f1df3
PH
3191PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3192 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3193 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3194 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3195 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3196 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3197 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3198 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3199 the text comparison.
3200
96776534
PH
3201PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3202 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3203 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3204 The same fix has been applied.
3205
5de37277 3206
9a799bc0
PH
3207Exim version 4.54
3208-----------------
3209
3210PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3211 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3212 It now does.
3213
99a4b039
PH
3214PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3215 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3216
3217PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3218
4b233853
PH
3219PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3220 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3221 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3222 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3223 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3224
8857ccfd
PH
3225TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3226 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3227 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3228 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3229 or /domain=).
3230
433a2980
PH
3231PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3232 testing suite.
3233
3e46c1aa 3234
9a799bc0 3235
e3a311ba
TK
3236Exim version 4.53
3237-----------------
3238
3239TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3240 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3241
13b685f9
PH
3242PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3243
395ff96d
PH
3244PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3245
5b68f6e4
PH
3246PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3247 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3248 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3249
1ab52c69
PH
3250PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3251 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3252 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3253
b07e6aa3
PH
3254PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3255 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3256 operating systems.
3257
254e032f
PH
3258PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3259 ${stat: expansion item.
3260
3af76a81
PH
3261PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3262 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3263
2548ba04
PH
3264PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3265 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3266 file for comments.
3267
b6c6011d
PH
3268PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3269
cf39cf57
PH
3270PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3271 setting.
3272
f1513293
PH
3273PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3274 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3275
727549a4
PH
3276TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3277
af46795e
PH
3278PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3279 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3280 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3281 the end of the subprocess.
3282
d7b47fd0
PH
3283PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3284 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3285 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3286 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3287 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3288
ee744174
JJ
3289JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3290
b582ab87
PH
3291TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3292
41a13e0a
PH
3293PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3294 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3295
f625cc5a
PH
3296PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3297
3298PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3299
21f7af35
PH
3300PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3301 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3302 HP-UX compiler.
3303
31480e42
PH
3304PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3305
2d280592
PH
3306PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3307 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3308 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3309
7cd1141b
PH
3310PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3311 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3312
3313PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3314 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3315
750af86e
PH
3316PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3317 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3318
3319 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3320 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3321
3322 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3323 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3324 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3325 contributed by a Radius user.
3326
3327PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3328 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3329
4304270b
TK
3330TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3331 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3332
750af86e
PH
3333PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3334 available.
3335
64ffc24f
PH
3336PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3337 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3338 received.
3339
5dd9625b
PH
3340PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3341 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3342 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3343 header lines when this was not necessary.
3344
5591031b
PH
3345PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3346
ba18e66a
PH
3347PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3348 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3349 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3350 exists".
3351
9cec981f
PH
3352PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3353 -bV or -d is used.
3354
aa2b5c79
PH
3355PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3356 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3357 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3358 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3359
48a53b7f
PH
3360PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3361
1c59d63b
PH
3362PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3363
671012da
TK
3364TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3365
1509d3a8
PH
3366PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3367
3368PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3369 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3370 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3371 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3372 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3373 settings.
3374
3375PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3376
2fe1a124
PH
3377PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3378 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3379 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3380 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3381 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3382 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3383 which is clearly wrong.
3384
8800895a
PH
3385PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3386
ccfdb010
PH
3387PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3388 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3389 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3390 subsequently added.
3391
1130bfb0
PH
3392PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3393 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3394
ebcb507f
PH
3395PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3396
c35e155c
PH
3397PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3398 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3399
95d1f782
PH
3400PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3401 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3402
fd6de02e
PH
3403PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3404 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3405
58de37c5
PH
3406PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3407 recipients, not senders.
3408
261cf466
TF
3409TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3410 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3411
3ee512ff
PH
3412PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3413
e08c430f
PH
3414PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3415
bef5a11f
PH
3416PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3417 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3418 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3419 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3420
7546de58
TF
3421TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3422
e5d5a95f
TF
3423TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3424 clock is set back in time.
3425
2e88a017
TF
3426TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3427 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3428
a5f65aa4
TF
3429TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3430 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3431
e7726cbf
PH
3432PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3433 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3434 (see PH/47 above).
3435
a7fdad5b
TF
3436TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3437 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3438 header rewrites.
3439
6af56900
PH
3440PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3441 type ("H").
3442
0925ede6
PH
3443PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3444
66afa403
TF
3445TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3446 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3447 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3448
0154e85a
TF
3449TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3450 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3451 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3452 helo verification defer as a failure.
3453
16f12c76
PH
3454PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3455 actual error message.
3456
bbe902f0 3457
e5a9dba6
PH
3458Exim version 4.52
3459-----------------
3460
3461TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3462
22c3b60b
PH
3463PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3464 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3465 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3466 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3467
06a9b4b5
PH
3468TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3469
c1ac6996
PH
3470PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3471 can still be requested.
3472
9c7a242c
PH
3473PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3474 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3475 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3476 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3477
87ba3f5f
PH
3478TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3479 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3480 circumstances, but probably never did.
3481
3482PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3483 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3484 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3485 in the header line.
3486
29aba418
TF
3487TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3488
fe0dab11
TF
3489TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3490 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3491
11d337a4
TK
3492TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3493
3494TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3495
415c8f3b
PH
3496PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3497 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3498 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3499 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3500 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3501 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3502
958541e9
PH
3503PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3504 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3505 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3506 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3507 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3508 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3509
c206415f
TK
3510TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3511 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3512
2a4be8f9
PH
3513PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3514 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3515
1cba11c5
SC
3516SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3517 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3518
3519SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3520
3521SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3522
3523SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3524
3525SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3526
3527SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3528
3529SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3530
1005d00e
TK
3531TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3532
3533TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3534 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3535 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3536
3537TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3538 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3539 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3540 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3541
9b4768fa
PH
3542PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3543 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3544 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3545
3546PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3547 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3548 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3549 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3550
0d7eb84a
PH
3551PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3552 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3553 to be made).
3554
3555PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3556 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3557 should work with maildirs and everything.
3558
40727bee
TK
3559TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3560 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3561
554d2369
TF
3562TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3563 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3564
1f922db1
PH
3565PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3566 function for BDB 4.3.
3567
ef213c3b
PH
3568PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3569
8ac170f3
PH
3570PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3571 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3572 involved.
3573
b1c749bb
PH
3574PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3575 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3576 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3577 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3578 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3579 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3580
4aac9b49
PH
3581PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3582 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3583 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3584 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3585 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3586 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3587 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3588 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3589
294520c8
TK
3590TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3591 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3592 details.
3593
5bd022fe
PH
3594PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3595 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3596
90e9ce59
PH
3597PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3598 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3599 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3600 test. It is now used for both.
3601
5ea81592
PH
3602PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3603 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3604 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3605 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3606 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3607 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3608
c6c2dc1d
PH
3609PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3610 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3611 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3612 string_vformat().
3613
fffffe4c
PH
3614PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3615 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3616 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3617
9a26b6b2
PH
3618PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3619 experimental DomainKeys support:
3620
3621 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3622 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3623 the control was given.
3624
3625 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3626
4aee0225
PH
3627PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3628
32d668a5
PH
3629PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3630
8187c3f3
PH
3631PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3632 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3633 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3634 db.h files).
3635
ff790e47 3636PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3637 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3638 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3639 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3640 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3641 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3642 course.
ff790e47 3643
5417f6d1
PH
3644PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3645 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3646 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3647 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3648 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3649 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3650
59cf8544
PH
3651PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3652 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3653 do -d+all out of habit.
3654
e7ad8a65
PH
3655PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3656 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3657 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3658
ade42478
PH
3659PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3660 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3661 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3662 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3663 record types that Exim uses.
3664
182ad5cf
PH
3665PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3666 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3667 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3668 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3669 non-existent file that was broken.
3670
b0d9fc80
TK
3671TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3672 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3673
3674TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3675 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3676 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3677
3678TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3679
47c7a64a
PH
3680PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3681 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3682 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3683 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3684 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3685 same time.
3686
a388bce4
SC
3687SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3688 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3689 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3690 at a slight CPU cost.
3691
3692SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3693 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3694
3695SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3696 by Marc Sherman.
3697
0793e4ed
SC
3698SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3699
c58b88df
PH
3700PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3701 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3702
e7ad8a65 3703
7982096b
PH
3704Exim version 4.51
3705-----------------
3706
1a46a8c5
PH
3707TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3708 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3709
2f079f46 3710TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3711
3712TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3713
3714PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3715 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3716
3717PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3718 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3719 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3720 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3721 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3722 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3723 file.
3724
3725PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3726 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3727 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3728 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3729 these two options.
3730
3731PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3732 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3733 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3734 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3735 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3736 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3737 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3738 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3739
3740PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3741 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3742
3743PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3744 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3745 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3746 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3747 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3748 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3749
3750PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3751 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3752 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3753 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3754
3755PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3756 Finch).
3757
3758PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3759 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3760
49c2d5ea
PH
3761PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3762 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3763 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3764 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3765 message.
49c2d5ea 3766
bf759a8b
PH
3767PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3768
83364d30
PH
3769PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3770 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3771
7999bbd7
PH
3772PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3773 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3774 to what was transported.)
3775
7dbf77c9
PH
3776TF/01 Added $received_time.
3777
74e0617f
PH
3778PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3779 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3780 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3781 spamd_address settings.
3782
2f079f46
PH
3783PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3784 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3785 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3786 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3787 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3788
8c841523
PH
3789PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3790
7766a4f0
PH
3791PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3792 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3793 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3794 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3795 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3796
8b417f2c
PH
3797PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3798 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3799
901f42cb
PH
3800PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3801 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3802 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3803 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3804 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3805 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3806 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3807 for failure.
3808
f9b9210e
PH
3809PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3810 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3811 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3812 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3813 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3814 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3815 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3816 "input=".
3817
54cdb463
PH
3818PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3819
cf00dad6
PH
3820PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3821 driver and ACL definitions.
3822
acb1b346
PH
3823PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3824 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3825
c5ddb310
PH
3826PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3827 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3828 understands it better than I do:
3829
3830 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3831 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3832
3833 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3834 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3835 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3836 => three warnings about OTP not working
3837 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3838
3839 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3840 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3841 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3842 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3843 for each call.)
3844 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3845 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3846
3847 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3848 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3849 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3850
31619da6
PH
3851PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3852 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3853 specified.
3854
bebaf0fc
PH
3855PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3856 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3857 "Linux".
3858
475fe28a
PH
3859PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3860 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3861 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3862
3863 warn !verify = sender
3864 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3865
3866 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3867 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3868
7e8bec7a
PH
3869PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3870
3871 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3872 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3873
3874 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3875 nomenclature these days.)
3876
e4a89c47
PH
3877PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3878 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3879
5ca2a9a1
PH
3880PH/30 In these circumstances:
3881 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3882 . First host does not offer TLS;
3883 . First host accepts first address;
3884 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3885 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3886 . Second host accepts second address.
3887 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3888 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3889 address.
7e8bec7a 3890
c688b954
PH
3891PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3892 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3893 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3894 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3895 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3896
fed77020
PH
3897PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3898 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3899
7fe1560f
PH
3900PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3901 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3902
ebb6e6d5
PH
3903PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3904 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3905 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3906
9c4e8f60
PH
3907PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3908 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3909 overlooked.
3910
3911PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3912
d7174846
PH
3913PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3914 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3915 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3916 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3917 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3918 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3919 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3920
3921 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3922 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3923 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3924 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3925 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3926
3927 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3928 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3929 routed further.
3930
cfe75fc3
PH
3931PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3932 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3933 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3934 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3935 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3936 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3937
be22d70e
PH
3938PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3939
0612b098
PH
3940PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3941 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3942 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3943 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3944 printable escape sequences.
3945
2e0c1448
PH
3946PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3947 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3948 body only.
3949
447d236c
PH
3950PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3951 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3952 are as follows:
3953
3954 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3955 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3956 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3957 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3958 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3959
3960 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3961 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3962 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3963
d20976dc
PH
3964PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3965
f656d135
PH
3966PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3967 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3968 play with."
3969
2e2a30b4
PH
3970PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3971 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3972 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3973 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3974 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3975 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3976 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3977 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3978 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3979 the log output.
3980
9176e9f0
PH
3981PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3982 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3983 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3984 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3985 "make".
3986
7982096b 3987
bbe902f0
PH
3988A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3989----------------------------------------
3990
3991Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3992changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3993needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3994in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3995that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3996release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3997from 4.43.
3998
3999I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
40004.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4001those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4002historical information.
4003
4004
f7b63901 4005Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4006-----------------
4007
5fe762f6
PH
4008 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4009
139059f6 4010 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4011 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4012
7086e875
PH
4013 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4014 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4015 place.
4016
35af9f61
PH
4017 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4018 filter fails to execute.
4019
b668c215
PH
4020 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4021 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4022 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4023 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4024 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4025
a494b1e1
PH
4026 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4027
4028 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4029 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4030 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4031 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4032
c5fcb476
PH
4033 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4034 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4035 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4036 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4037 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4038
69358f02
PH
4039 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4040
5be20824
PH
404110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4042
eb2c0248
PH
404311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4044 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4045 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4046 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4047
2a3eea10
PH
404812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4049 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4050 sender verification.
4051
405213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4053 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4054
23c7ff99
PH
405514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4056
4deaf07d
PH
405715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4058 connection timeout.
4059
926e1192
PH
406016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4061 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4062
650edc6f
PH
406317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4064 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4065
2c7db3f5
PH
406618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4067 information about exactly what failed.
4068
3d235903
PH
406919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4070
7c7ad977
PH
407120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4072 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4073 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4074
981756db
PH
407521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4076 It is now set to "smtps".
4077
d4eb88df
PH
407822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4079 ignore_target_hosts.
4080
408123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4082 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4083 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4084 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4085 "[x.x.x.x]".
4086
7d468ab8
PH
408724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4088 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4089 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4090
409125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4092 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4093 wake it up if nothing else does.
4094
62c0818f
PH
409526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4096 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4097 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4098 end up negative.
4099
26034054
PH
410027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4101 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4102
af66f652
PH
410328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4104
90af77f4
PH
410529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4106 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4107 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4108 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4109 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4110 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4111 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4112 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4113
d8ef3577
PH
411430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4115 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4116 than one IP address.
4117
5cb8cbc6
PH
411831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4119 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4120 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4121 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4122
14702f5b
PH
412332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4124 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4125 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4126 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4127 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4128 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4129
063b1e99
PH
413033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4131 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4132 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4133 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4134
652e1b65
PH
413534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4136 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4137 respected.
4138
6f0c9a4f
PH
413935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4140 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4141 $sender_host_address.
4142
33397d19
PH
414336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4144 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4145 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4146 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4147 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4148 very small.
4149
7bb56e1f
PH
415037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4151
4152 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4153 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4154
ea3bc19b
PH
4155 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4156 just the host names, not the priorities.
4157
4158 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4159 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4160 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4161
ea3bc19b 4162 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4163 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4164
0bcb2a0e
PH
416538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4166 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4167 domain.
4168
2ac0e484
PH
416939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4170
4e1fde53
PH
417140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4172 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4173
de365ded
PH
417441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4175 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4176 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4177
f05da2e8
PH
417842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4179
d6453af2
PH
418043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4181
f7b63901
PH
418244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4183
418445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4185 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4186 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4187 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4188 because the tests only now provoked it.
4189
a444213a
PH
419046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4191 (this can affect the format of dates).
4192
0ec020ea
PH
419347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4194 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4195 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4196 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4197
b1206957
PH
419848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4199
420049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4201 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4202 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4203 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4204
26dd5a95
PH
420550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4206 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4207 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4208
343b2385
PH
420951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4210 autoreply.
4211
1c5466b9
PH
421252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4213 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4214 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4215 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4216 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4217 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4218 is going on).
4219
55ee9ee3
PH
422053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4221 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4222 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4223 the line.
4224
d38f8232
PH
422554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4226 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4227 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4228
4229 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4230 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4231 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4232 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4233 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4234 so I produce this patch..."
4235
3295e65b
PH
4236 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4237 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4238 is not defined.
4239
7102e136
PH
424055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4241 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4242 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4243 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4244 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4245
3ca0ba97
PH
424656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4247
c2bcbe20
PH
424857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4249 long debug lines gets shown.
4250
18ce445d
PH
425158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4252 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4253
1f5b4c3d
PH
425459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4255
4256 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4257 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4258 of $primary_hostname.
4259
b975ba52
PH
426060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4261 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4262 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4263 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4264 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4265 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4266 by change 4.50/55 above.
4267
4268 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4269 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4270 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4271 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4272 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4273 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4274 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4275
427661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4277 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4278 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4279 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4280
17ffcae7
PH
428162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4282 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4283
d95f9fdb
PH
428463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4285 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4286 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4287 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4288 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4289
86b8287f
PH
429064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4291 This has been fixed.
4292
60dc5e56
PH
429365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4294 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4295 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4296 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4297 the caching.)
4298
533244af
PH
429966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4300
a5a28604
PH
430167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4302 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4303 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4304 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4305
7e634d24
PH
430668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4307 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4308
3e11c26b
PH
430969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4310 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4311 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4312
6729cf78
PH
431370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4314 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4315 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4316 message there.
4317
00f00ca5
PH
431871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4319 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4320 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4321
c9bdd01c
PH
432272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4323 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4324 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4325 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4326
d43194df
PH
432773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4328 during host lookups.
4329
fe5b5d0b
PH
433074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4331 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4332
4333 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4334
76a2d7ba
PH
433575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4336 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4337 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4338 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4339 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4340 background.
4341
434276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4343 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4344
04f7d5b9
PH
434577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4346 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4347 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4348
bc60667e
PH
434978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4350
bb6e88ff
PH
435179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4352 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4353 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4354 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4355 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4356 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4357 process earlier.
4358
1e70f85b
PH
435980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4360 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4361 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4362 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4363 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4364
436581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4366 tables).
4367
4e01f9d6
PH
436882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4369
1ee1cef2
PH
437083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4371 "vacation" handling.
4372
6e2b4ccc
PH
437384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4374 OS variants using glibc.
4375
8e669ac1
PH
437685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4377
495ae4b0 4378
bbe902f0
PH
4379----------------------------------------------------
4380See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4381----------------------------------------------------
4382
4383
4384Exim version 4.44
4385-----------------
4386
4387 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4388 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4389 transport
4390
4391 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4392 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4393 place.
4394
4395 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4396 filter fails to execute.
4397
4398 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4399 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4400 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4401 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4402 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4403
4404 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4405 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4406 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4407 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4408
4409 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4410 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4411 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4412 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4413 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4414
4415 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4416
4417 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4418 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4419 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4420 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4421
4422 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4423 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4424 sender verification.
4425
442610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4427 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4428
442911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4430 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4431
443212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4433 ignore_target_hosts.
4434
443513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4436 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4437 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4438 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4439 "[x.x.x.x]".
4440
444114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4442 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4443 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4444
444515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4446 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4447 wake it up if nothing else does.
4448
444916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4450 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4451 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4452 end up negative.
4453
445417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4455 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4456
ea3a6f44 445718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4458
445919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4460 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4461 empty pattern.
4462
446320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4464 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4465 one IP address.
4466
ea3a6f44
NM
446721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4468 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4469 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4470 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4471 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4472 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4473
ea3a6f44
NM
447422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4475 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4476 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4477
447823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4479 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4480 $sender_host_address.
4481
448224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4483
ea3a6f44
NM
448425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4485 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4486 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4487
448826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4489 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4490
ea3a6f44
NM
449127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4492 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4493
ea3a6f44
NM
449428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4495 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4496 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4497 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4498
449929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4500 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4501 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4502
ea3a6f44
NM
450330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4504 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4505 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4506 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4507
ea3a6f44
NM
450831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4509 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4510 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4511
ea3a6f44
NM
451231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4513 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4514
ea3a6f44
NM
451532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4516 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4517 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4518 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4519 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4520 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4521 is going on).
bbe902f0 4522
ea3a6f44
NM
452333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4524 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4525 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4526 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4527 CAN-2005-0021
4528
ea3a6f44
NM
452934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4530 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4531 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4532 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4533 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4534 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4535 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4536
4537 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4538 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4539 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4540 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4541 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4542 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4543 CAN-2005-0021
4544
ea3a6f44
NM
454535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4546 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4547 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4548 CAN-2005-0022
4549
ea3a6f44
NM
455036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4551 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4552 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4553 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4554 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4555
ea3a6f44
NM
455637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4557 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4558 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4559 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4560 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4561
ea3a6f44
NM
456238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4563 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4564 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4565 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4566 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4567
4568
495ae4b0
PH
4569Exim version 4.43
4570-----------------
4571
4572 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4573 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4574 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4575 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4576 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4577 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4578 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4579
4580 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4581 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4582 the delivery.
4583
4584 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4585
4586 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4587
4588 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4589 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4590 to local_scan().
4591
4592 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4593 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4594 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4595 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4596 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4597
4598 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4599 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4600
4601 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4602
4603 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4604
460510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4606 header_sender only.
4607
460811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4609 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4610
461112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4612 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4613 affecting debugging statements).
4614
461513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4616
461714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4618 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4619 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4620 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4621 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4622 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4623 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4624 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4625 after the received time, and all would be well.
4626
462715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4628 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4629 condition in an expansion string.
4630
463116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4632
463317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4634 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4635 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4636 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4637 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4638 job under whatever limits there are.
4639
464018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4641
464219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4643 space).
4644
464520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4646 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4647 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4648 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4649 return path is set.
4650
465121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4652 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4653 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4654 binary data in such strings.
4655
465622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4657
465823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4659 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4660 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4661 failure, which is pointless.
4662
466324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4664
466525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4666
466726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4668 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4669 Sender: header lines.
4670
467127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4672 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4673 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4674
467528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4676 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4677 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4678 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4679 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4680 happens.
4681
468229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4683 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4684 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4685 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4686 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4687
468830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4689 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4690 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4691 1024.
4692
469331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4694 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4695
469632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4697 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4698
469933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4700
470132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4702
470333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4704
470534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4706 syntax error.
4707
470835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4709
471036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4711
471237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4713 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4714 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4715 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4716
471738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4718 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4719
4720
4721Exim version 4.42
4722-----------------
4723
4724 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4725 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4726 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4727 it was not quoted.
4728 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4729 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4730 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4731 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4732 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4733 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4734
4735 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4736 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4737 verification failure".
4738
4739 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4740 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4741 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4742 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4743
4744 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4745 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4746 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4747 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4748 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4749 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4750 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4751 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4752 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4753 treated as a timeout.
4754
4755 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4756 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4757 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4758 not set for Exim filters).
4759
4760 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4761 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4762 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4763
4764 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4765
4766 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4767 try to make them clearer.
4768
4769 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4770 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4771
4772 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4773
4774 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4775
477610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4777 only the Cygwin environment.
4778
477911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4780 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4781 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4782 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4783 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4784
478512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4786 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4787 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4788 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4789 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4790 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4791 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4792
479313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4794 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4795
479614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4797
4798 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4799 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4800 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4801
4802 To: susanne@some.where
4803
4804 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4805 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4806 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4807 of addresses in From: header lines).
4808
4809 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4810 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4811 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4812
4813 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4814 treated as non-personal.
4815
4816 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4817 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4818
481915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4820
482116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4822
482317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4824 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4825 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4826
482718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4828 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4829
483019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4831 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4832 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4833 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4834 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4835 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4836
483720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4838 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4839 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4840 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4841 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4842 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4843 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4844 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4845
4846 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4847
484821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4849 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4850
485122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4852 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4853 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4854
485523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4856 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4857
485824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4859 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4860 rather than long int.
4861
486225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4863
486426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4865
4866
4867Exim version 4.41
4868-----------------
4869
4870 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4871 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4872 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4873 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4874 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4875 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4876
4877
4878Exim version 4.40
4879-----------------
4880
4881 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4882 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4883
4884 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4885 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4886 socklen_t is defined.
4887
4888 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4889 always exist.
4890
4891 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4892 configured.
4893
4894 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4895 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4896 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4897 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4898 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4899
4900 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4901 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4902 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4903 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4904
4905 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4906 of flapping under certain conditions.
4907
4908 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4909 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4910 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4911
4912 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4913
491410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4915
491611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4917 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4918 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4919 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4920
492112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4922 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4923 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4924 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4925 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4926 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4927 preserved with the message after it was received.
4928
492913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4930 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4931 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4932 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4933 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4934 test suite worked just fine.
4935
493614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4937 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4938 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4939
494015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4941 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4942 string.
4943
494416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4945 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4946 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4947 does not fully solve it.
4948
494917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4950 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4951 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4952 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4953 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4954
495518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4956 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4957 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4958
495919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4960 string, for example:
4961
4962 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4963
4964 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4965 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4966 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4967 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4968 the routers could not see them.
4969
497020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4971 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4972
497321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4974 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4975 output).
4976
497722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4978 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4979 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4980 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4981 that needed quoting.
4982
498323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4984 was not being matched caselessly.
4985
498624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4987 backslashes.
4988
498925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4990 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4991 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4992 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4993 when use_sender is false.
4994
499526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4996
499727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4998
499928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5000
500129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5002 the configuration file.
5003
500430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5005 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5006
500731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5008
500932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5010 bytes in the message body.
5011
501233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5013 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5014 delivery.
5015
501634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5017
501835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5019
502036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5021 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5022 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5023 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5024 another IP address.
5025
5026
5027Exim version 4.34
5028-----------------
5029
5030 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5031 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5032
5033 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5034 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5035 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5036 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5037 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5038
5039 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5040 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5041
5042 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5043 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5044 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5045
5046 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5047 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5048 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5049
5050 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5051 for routers.
5052
5053 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5054 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5055 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5056 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5057 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5058 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5059 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5060
5061
5062Exim version 4.33
5063-----------------
5064
5065 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5066 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5067 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5068 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5069 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5070 default (and expected) setting.
5071
5072 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5073 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5074 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5075 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5076
5077 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5078 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5079
5080 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5081 in domain lists.
5082
5083 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5084 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5085 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5086 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5087 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5088 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5089
5090 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5091 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5092 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5093
5094 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5095 part (NOT match_host).
5096
5097 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5098
5099 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5100 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5101 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5102 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5103 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5104 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5105 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5106 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5107 the same named file.
5108
510910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5110 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5111 when Exim is built.
5112
511311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5114 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5115 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5116 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5117 a host name.
5118
511912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5120 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5121 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5122
512313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5124
512514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5126
512715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5128
512916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5130 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5131
513217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5133 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5134 before starting the TLS session.
5135
513618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5137
513819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5139 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5140
514120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5142 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5143 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5144 colon in the middle).
5145
5146
5147Exim version 4.32
5148-----------------
5149
5150 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5151 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5152 multiple configurations are in use.
5153
5154 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5155 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5156 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5157 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5158 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5159 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5160
5161 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5162 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5163
5164 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5165 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5166 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5167
5168 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5169 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5170 occurs.
5171
5172 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5173 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5174
5175 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5176
5177 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5178 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5179
5180 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5181
5182 -prval:sval
5183
5184 is equivalent to
5185
5186 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5187
5188 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5189 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5190 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5191 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5192 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5193
519410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5195 Exim's behaviour:
5196
5197 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5198 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5199 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5200 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5201 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5202 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5203
5204 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5205 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5206 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5207 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5208 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5209 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5210 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5211 string.
5212
5213 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5214 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5215 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5216 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5217 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5218
521911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5220
522112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5222 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5223 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5224
522513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5226
522714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5228 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5229 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5230 information.
5231
523215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5233 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5234
523516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5236 Three changes have been made:
5237
5238 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5239 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5240 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5241 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5242 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5243
5244 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5245 been restored.
5246
5247 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5248 the modified behaviour.
5249
5250
5251Exim version 4.31
5252-----------------
5253
5254 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5255 Larry Rosenman.
5256
5257 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5258 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5259
5260 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5261 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5262 try to track down a specific problem.
5263
5264 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5265 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5266 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5267
5268 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5269 warning.
5270
5271 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5272 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5273 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5274 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5275 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5276 some earlier ones do not.
5277
5278 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5279
5280 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5281 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5282 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5283 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5284 address literals are enabled, of course).
5285
5286 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5287
528810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5289 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5290 by a command such as
5291
5292 exim -f "" ...
5293
5294 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5295
529611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5297
529812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5299 remained set. It is now erased.
5300
530113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5302 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5303
530414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5305 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5306 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5307 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5308 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5309 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5310 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5311 appropriate error code.
5312
531315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5314 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5315 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5316 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5317 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5318 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5319
532016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5321 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5322 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5323
532417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5325 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5326 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5327 terminate the header.
5328
532918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5330 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5331 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5332
533319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5334 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5335 (4.30/29). In particular:
5336
5337 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5338 imposed.
5339
5340 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5341 to write a maildirsize file.
5342
5343 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5344 the transport, the new value overrides.
5345
5346 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5347 count.
5348
534920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5350 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5351 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5352 space or a tab.
5353
535421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5355 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5356 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5357 the fallback hosts.
5358
535922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5360 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5361 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5362
536323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5364 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5365 using a union.
5366
536724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5368 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5369 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5370
537125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5372
537326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5374
537527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5376
537728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5378 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5379 become corrupted.
5380
538129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5382 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5383 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5384 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5385 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5386 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5387 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5388 too great.
5389
539030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5391 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5392 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5393 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5394 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5395 incorrectly.
5396
539731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5398 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5399 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5400 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5401 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5402 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5403 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5404 cached value only when the same options are set.
5405
540632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5407
540833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5409 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5410 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5411 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5412 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5413
541434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5415 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5416 it is clearly obsolete.
5417
541835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5419 transport.
5420
542136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5422 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5423 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5424 times.
5425
542637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5427 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5428 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5429 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5430 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5431
543238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5433 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5434 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5435 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5436
543739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5438
5439 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5440
5441 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5442 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5443 2^31.
5444
544540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5446 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5447 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5448 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5449 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5450 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5451 $localpart_data.
5452
545341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5454 with the -f command-line option.
5455
545642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5457 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5458 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5459 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5460 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5461 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5462
546343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5464 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5465 line.
5466
546744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5468 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5469 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5470 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5471 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5472 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5473 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5474 buffer is too small.
5475
547645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5477 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5478
547946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5480 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5481 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5482 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5483 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5484 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5485 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5486 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5487 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5488
548947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5490 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5491 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5492
549348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5494 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5495 ACL").
5496
549749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5498 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5499 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5500 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5501 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5502
550350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5504 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5505 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5506 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5507 is set.
5508
550951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5510
551152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5512
551353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5514 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5515
551654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5517 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5518 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5519
552055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5521 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5522 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5523 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5524 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5525
552656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5527 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5528 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5529 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5530 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5531 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5532 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5533
553457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5535 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5536 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5537 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5538 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5539 the test of how many are available.
5540
554158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5542 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5543 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5544 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5545 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5546 new message is started.
5547
554859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5549 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5550
555160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5552 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5553
555461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5555 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5556 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5557 is no long logged.
5558
555962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5560 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5561 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5562 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5563 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5564 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5565 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5566
556763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5568 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5569 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5570 interpreted as octal.
5571
557264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5573 setting.
5574
557565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5576 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5577 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5578 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5579 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5580 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5581
558266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5583 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5584 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5585 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5586
5587 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5588 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5589 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5590 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5591
5592 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5593 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5594 is a bug fix.
5595
5596 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5597 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5598
559967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5600
560168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5602 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5603 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5604 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5605
560669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5607 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5608 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5609 supplied", which is not helpful.
5610
561170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5612 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5613 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5614
561571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5616 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5617 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5618 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5619 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5620 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5621 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5622 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5623
562472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5625 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5626 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5627 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5628 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5629
563073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5631 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5632 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5633 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5634 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5635 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5636
563774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5638 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5639 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5640
564175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5642
564376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5644 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5645 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5646 variables.
5647
564877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5649
565078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5651 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5652 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5653 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5654 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5655 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5656 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5657 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5658
565979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5660 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5661 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5662 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5663 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5664
566580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5666 Haardt.
5667
566881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5669 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5670 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5671 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5672 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5673 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5674 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5675 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5676 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5677
5678
5679Exim version 4.30
5680-----------------
5681
5682 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5683 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5684 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5685
5686 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5687 fixed.
5688
5689 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5690 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5691 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5692
5693 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5694 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5695 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5696 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5697 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5698 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5699
5700 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5701 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5702 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5703 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5704 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5705 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5706 the Exim test suite.
5707
5708 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5709 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5710 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5711 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5712
5713 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5714 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5715 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5716 specify it in this variable.
5717
5718 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5719 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5720 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5721 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5722
5723 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5724 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5725 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5726 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5727
5728 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5729 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5730 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5731 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5732 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5733
5734 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5735
573610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5737 they are logged.
5738
573911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5740 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5741 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5742 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5743 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5744
574512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5746 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5747
574813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5749 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5750 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5751 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5752 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5753
575414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5755 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5756
575715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5758 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5759 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5760
576116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5762 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5763
576417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5765 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5766
576718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5768 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5769 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5770
577119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5772 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5773
577420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5775 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5776 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5777 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5778
577921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5780
578122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5782 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5783 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5784 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5785
578623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5787
578824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5789 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5790
579125. Added .include_if_exists.
5792
579326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5794 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5795 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5796 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5797 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5798 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5799
580027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5801
580228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5803 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5804 this.
5805
580629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5807
580830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5809 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5810
5811 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5812 550 Sender verify failed
5813
5814 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5815 the final line of the response.
5816
581731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5818 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5819 all other user lookups.
5820
582132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5822 delivery time.
5823
582433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5825 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5826 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5827 result into an int without checking.
5828
582934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5830 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5831 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5832
583335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5834 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5835 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5836 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5837
583836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5839 correctly.
5840
584137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5842 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5843
584438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5845 to the empty sender.
5846
584739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5848 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5849 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5850 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5851 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5852 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5853 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5854 panic log.
5855
585640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5857 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5858 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5859 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5860 used.
5861
586241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5863 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5864
586542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5866 timestamps.
5867
586843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5869 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5870
587144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5872
587345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5874 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5875 logs.
5876
587746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5878 as soon as it is encountered.
5879
588047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5881
588248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5883 rewritten to "<>".
5884
588549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5886 recognizes a tab character.
5887
588850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5889 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5890 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5891 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5892
589351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5894
589552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5896 crash.
5897
589853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5899
590054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5901
590255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5903 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5904 2822.
5905
590656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5907 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5908 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5909 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5910 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5911
591257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5913 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5914
591558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5916 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5917 list (.included file names were always shown).
5918
591959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5920 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5921 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5922 root at that time.
5923
592460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5925 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5926
592761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5928
592962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5930
593163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5932
593364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5934 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5935 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5936 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5937 failures to open the logs.
5938
593965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5940 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5941 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5942 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5943 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5944 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5945 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5946
5947
5948Exim version 4.24
5949-----------------
5950
5951 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5952 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5953 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5954 change 4.23/1.
5955
5956 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5957 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5958 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5959
5960 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5961 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5962 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5963
5964 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5965 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5966 causing some misleading effects.
5967
5968 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5969 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5970 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5971
5972 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5973 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5974 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5975 queue-runner function directly.
5976
5977
5978Exim version 4.23
5979-----------------
5980
5981 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5982 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5983
5984 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5985 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5986 was always written to the default place.
5987
5988 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5989 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5990 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5991
5992 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5993
5994 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5995
5996 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5997 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5998 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5999
6000 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6001 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6002 must start.
6003
6004 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6005 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6006 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6007
6008 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6009 command line option is disabled.
6010
6011 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6012 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6013
6014 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6015
6016 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6017
6018 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6019 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6020
602110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6022
602311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6024 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6025 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6026 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6027 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6028 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6029
603012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6031 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6032 timeout.
6033
603413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6035 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6036
603714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6038 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6039
604015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6041 received was valid base64.
6042
604316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6044 name of the variable that was being set.
6045
604617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6047
604818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6049 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6050 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6051 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6052 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6053 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6054
605519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6056
605720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6058 nor realm was specified.
6059
606021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6061 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6062 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6063 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6064
606522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6066 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6067 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6068
606923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6070 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6071 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6072
607324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6074 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6075 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6076 some systems use these upper case variants.
6077
607825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6079 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6080 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6081 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6082
608326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6084
608527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6086 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6087
608828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6089 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6090 expansion variable.
6091
609229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6093
609430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6095 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6096 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6097 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6098
609931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6100 using it.
6101
610232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6103 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6104 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6105
610633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6107 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6108
610934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6110 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6111 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6112 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6113
611435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6115 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6116 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6117
611836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6119
612037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6121 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6122 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6123 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6124 aborted.
6125
612638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6127 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6128 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6129
613039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6131
613240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6133 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6134
613541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6136 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6137
613842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6139 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6140 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6141 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6142 when emails are that large.
6143
6144
6145
6146Exim version 4.22
6147-----------------
6148
6149 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6150 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6151
6152 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6153 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6154 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6155
6156 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6157 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6158 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6159
6160 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6161 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6162 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6163 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6164 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6165
6166 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6167 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6168 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6169 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6170 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6171 ever.
6172
6173 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6174 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6175 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6176 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6177 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6178 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6179 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6180 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6181 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6182 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6183 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6184 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6185 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6186 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6187
6188 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6189 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6190 parameterised it.
6191
6192 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6193 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6194 error should be diagnosed.
6195
6196 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6197 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6198 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6199 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6200 appeared instead of "NULL".
6201
620210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6203 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6204 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6205 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6206 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6207 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6208 proceeds).
6209
6210 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6211 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6212 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6213
6214
6215Exim version 4.21
6216-----------------
6217
6218 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6219 or receiver verification errors.
6220
6221 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6222 name.
6223
6224 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6225 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6226 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6227 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6228
6229 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6230 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6231 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6232 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6233 shouldn't happen again.
6234
6235 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6236 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6237 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6238
6239 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6240 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6241
6242 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6243
6244 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6245 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6246
6247 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6248 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6249 RFC.
6250
625110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6252 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6253 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6254
625511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6256 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6257 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6258 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6259
626012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6261 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6262 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6263 to define what should happen).
6264
626513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6266 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6267 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6268
626914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6270
627115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6272
627316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6274 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6275
627617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6277 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6278 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6279 structure in all cases.
6280
6281 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6282 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6283 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6284 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6285
628618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6287 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6288 domain name.
6289
629019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6291 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6292
629320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6294 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6295
629621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6297 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6298 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6299
630022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6301 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6302 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6303
630423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6305 the book and for uniformity.
6306
630724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6308
630925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6310 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6311 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6312 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6313 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6314 non-existent command as the problem.
6315
631626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6317 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6318 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6319
632027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6321
632228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6323 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6324 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6325
632629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6327 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6328 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6329 timestamps using strftime().
6330
633130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6332 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6333
633432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6335 transport-time rewrites.
6336
633733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6338 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6339 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6340 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6341
634234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6343 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6344
634535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6346 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6347 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6348 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6349 comma and a space.
6350
635136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6352 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6353 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6354 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6355 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6356 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6357 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6358
635937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6360 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6361 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6362 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6363 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6364
636538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6366 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6367 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6368 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6369 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6370 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6371 remaining text gets split now.
6372
637339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6374 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6375 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6376 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6377
637840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6379 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6380 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6381 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6382 $return_path.
6383
638441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6385 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6386 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6387 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6388 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6389 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6390 passed through if needed.
6391
639242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6393 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6394 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6395 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6396 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6397 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6398
639943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6400 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6401 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6402 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6403 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6404
640544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6406 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6407 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6408 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6409 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6410
641145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6412 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6413 noticed.
6414
641546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6416 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6417 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6418 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6419 mayhem of various kinds.
6420
642147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6422 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6423 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6424 the right test for positive values.
6425
642648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6427 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6428 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6429 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6430 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6431 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6432 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6433 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6434 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6435 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6436 envelope.
6437
643849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6439 module.
6440
644150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6442 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6443 forbidding it.
6444
644551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6446 the existing equality matching.
6447
644852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6449 dealing with inode numbers.
6450
645153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6452 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6453 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6454
645554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6456 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6457 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6458 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6459 local_scan().
6460
646155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6462 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6463 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6464 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6465 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6466 relay addresses has also been removed.
6467
646856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6469
647057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6471 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6472 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6473
647458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6475 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6476 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6477 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6478 processing applies to CR:
6479
6480 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6481 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6482
6483 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6484 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6485 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6486 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6487
648859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6489 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6490 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6491
649260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6493 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6494 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6495 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6496 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6497 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6498 arisen.
6499
650061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6501 program routers.
6502
650362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6504 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6505 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6506 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6507 adds:
6508
6509 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6510
6511 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6512
6513 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6514
651563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6516 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6517 not considered personal.
6518
651964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6520
652165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6522
652366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6524
652567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6526 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6527 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6528 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6529 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6530 header lines, and spool format errors.
6531
653268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6533 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6534 for more flexibility.
6535
653669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6537 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6538 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6539
654070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6541 Sabourenkov.
6542
654371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6544 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6545 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6546 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6547 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6548 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6549 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6550 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6551 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6552
655372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6554 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6555 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6556 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6557 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6558 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6559 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6560
656173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6562 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6563 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6564
656574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6566 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6567 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6568 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6569 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6570 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6571 instead of killing the process with assert().
6572
657375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6574 than Unicode encoding.
6575
657676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6577 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6578 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6579 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6580
658177. Added process_log_path.
6582
658378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6584 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6585
658679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6587 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6588
658980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6590 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6591 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6592
659381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6594 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6595 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6596 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6597 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6598 were applied:
6599
6600 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6601 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6602 as invalid.
6603
660482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6605 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6606 they will be used during message reception.
6607
6608
6609Exim version 4.20
6610-----------------
6611
6612The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6613
6614****