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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
75
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78JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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80JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
81 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
82 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
83
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84JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
85 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
86 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
87
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88PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
89
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90JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
91 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
92 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
93 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
94
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95PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
96 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
97 promised '?' replacement.
98
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99PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
100
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101JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
102 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
103 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
104 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
105 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
106
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107JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
108 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
109 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
110
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111JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
112 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
113 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
114
7ea1237c 115JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 116 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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117 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
118
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119JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
120 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
121 hope that is portable enough.
122
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123JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
124 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
125 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
126 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
127
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128JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
129 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
130 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
131
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132JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
133 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
134 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
135 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
136
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137JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
138 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
139
75c121f0 140JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 141 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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142 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
143 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
144
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145JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
146 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
147 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
148
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149JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
150 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
151 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
152 the previous G, M, k.
153
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154JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
155 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
156 it was unset.
157
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c39c8870 162GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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163 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
164 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
165 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
166 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
167 be defined in redis_servers.
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169GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
170 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
171
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172JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
173 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
174 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
175 extant use locations.
176
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177JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
178 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
179
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180JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
181 Previously only the last row was returned.
182
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183JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
184 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
185 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
186 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
187 input.
188
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189JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
190 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
191 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
192 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
193 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
194 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
195 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
196 Main pool for expansions.
197 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
198 active in the testsuite.
199 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
200
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201JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
202 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
203 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
204 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
205 round-robin DNS.
206
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207JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
208 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
209 failure response.
210
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211JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
212 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
213 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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215JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
216 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
217 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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219JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
220 rows affected is given instead).
221
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222JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
223 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
224
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225JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
226 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
227 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
228 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
229 for all multi-message initiating connections.
230
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231JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
232 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
233 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
234
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235JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
236 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
237 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
238 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
239 separate.
240
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241JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
242 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
243 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
244 fake-reject.
245
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246HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
247
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248JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
249 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
250
aab9a843 251PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 252 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 253 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 254
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255JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
256 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
257 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
258 and send a quit.
259
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260JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
261 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
262
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263JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
264 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
265 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
266
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267JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
268 for the build is renamed.
269
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270JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
271 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
272 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
273
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274JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
275 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
276 result replacing the original.
277
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278JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
279 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
280 and the resources needed to be freed.
281
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282JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
283
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284JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
285 was not propagated.
286
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287JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
288 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
289 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
290 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
291
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292JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
293 length value. Previously this would segfault.
294
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295HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
296 newer versions of the scanner.
297
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298JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
299 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
300 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
301 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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302 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
303 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
304 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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306JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
307 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
308 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
309 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
310 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
311 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
312 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
313 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
314 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
315 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
316
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317JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
318 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
319
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320JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
321
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322HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
323 allows proper process termination in container environments.
324
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325JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
326 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
327
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328JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
329 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
330 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
331
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332JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
333 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
334 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 335 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
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337JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
338 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
339 would be spooled.
340
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341PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
342 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
343
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344HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
345 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
346 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
347 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
348 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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350JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
351 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
352 lines.
353
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354JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
355 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
356
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357PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
358 suffix list.
359
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360JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
361 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
362 "bare" representation.
363
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364JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
365 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
366 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
367 corrupted the output.
368
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373JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
374 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
375 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
376 pairs of long lines into single ones.
377
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378PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
379 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
380
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381JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
382 This permits better logging.
383
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384JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
385 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
386 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
387 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
388 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 389 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 390
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391JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
392 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
393 "exiwhat" output.
394
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395PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
396 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
397 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
398
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399JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
400 than 255 are no longer allowed.
401
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402JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
403 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
404 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
405 client, there is no benefit for these.
406 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
407 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
408 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
409 is used (3.2.4 +).
410
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411PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
412 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
413
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414JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
415 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
416 erroneously found still-pending ones.
417
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418JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
419 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
420
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421JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
422 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
423 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
424 signature and again for transmission.
425
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426JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
427 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 428 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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430JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
431 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
432 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
433 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
434 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
435 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
436 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
437
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438JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
439 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
440 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 441 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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443PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
444 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
445 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
446 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
447 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
448 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
449 processing options.
450
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451JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
452 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
453 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
454 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
455 connections.
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457PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
458 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
459 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
460 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
461 versions.
462
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463JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
464 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
465 inaccessible.
466
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467JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
468 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
469 banner-time rejection.
470
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471JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
472 callout/hold.
473
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474PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
475 is the name of a transport.
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476 Fixes bug 2140.
477
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478HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
479
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480JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
481 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
482
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483JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
484 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
485 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
486 during compilation.
487
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488JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
489 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
490 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 491 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 492
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493JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
494 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
495 initial verify call returned a defer.
496
ad1a76fe 497JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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498 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
499
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500JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
501 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
502
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503JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
504 if present. Previously it was ignored.
505
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506JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
507 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
508
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509JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
510 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
511 extensible.
512
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513PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
514 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
515
dc4de9cc
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516PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
517 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
518 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
519
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520JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
521 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
522 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
523 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
524
0768462d 525HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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526 and confused the parent.
527
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528JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
529 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
530
9e0ed81f
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531JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
532 for log purposes.
533
2540f2f8
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534JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
535 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
536 out-of-order delivery.
537
e5ab0ba9
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538JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
539 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
540 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
541 error for the HELO.
542
e99a3a6c
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543JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
544 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
545 desynchronisation.
546
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547JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
548 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
549 one run was done. Bug 2189.
550
72934ba7
JH
551JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
552 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
553 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
554 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
555 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
556 message is still "Temporary local problem".
557
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558JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
559 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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560 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
561
562HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
563 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
564 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 565
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566JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
567 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
568 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
569 though a different problem.
570
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4c57a40e 574
9427e879 575JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 576 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 577
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578JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
579
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580PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
581 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
582
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583JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
584 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
585
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586JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
587 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
588 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
589 before acknowledging the chunk.
590
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591PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
592 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
593 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
594
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595JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
596 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
597 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
598 should.
599
600JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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601 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
602 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 603
bd8fbe36 604JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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605 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
606
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607JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
608 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
609 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
610 body hash calculated value.
611
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612JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
613 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
614 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
615
44e6651b
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616JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
617
618JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
619 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
620
621JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
622 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
623 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
624
625JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
626 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
627 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
628 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
629 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
630 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
631
632JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
633 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
634 past that check, despite the cost.
635
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636JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
637 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
638 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
639
f700ea4d
PP
640PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
641 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
642 TLS library to consume.
643
da88acae
PP
644PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
645
f6ef9370
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646PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
647
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648JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
649 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
650 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
651 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
652 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
653 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
654 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
655
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656PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
657
658PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
659
660PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
661 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
662 should be warning-free.
663
8b2b9480
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664JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
665
666HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
667 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
668
d953610f
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669HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
670 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
671 general solution here.
672
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673PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
674 already-broken messages in the queue.
675
4bb432cb
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676JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
677
3b1a84c8
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678JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
679
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684JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
685 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 686
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687JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
688 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
689 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
690
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691JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
692 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
693 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
694 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
695 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
696 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
697 if one fails this test.
698 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
699 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
700
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701JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
702 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
703
23bb6982 704JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 705 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 706
0bd1b1ed 707JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 708 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 709
20b9a2dc
JH
710JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
711 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
712
05392bbc
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713JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
714 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
715
1a6230a3
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716JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
717
cfab9d68
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718JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
719 certificate).
720
98c82a3d
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721JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
722 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
723 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
724 connection after a verify cache hit.
725 Do not update it with the verify result either.
726
727JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
728 when routing results in more than one destination address.
729
ae8386f0
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730JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
731 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
732 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
733 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
734 when the cutthrough connection is made).
735
0d9fa8c0
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736JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
737 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
738
3581f321
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739JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
740 Previously they were not counted.
741
ef3a1a30
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742JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
743 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
744 that needed the lookup.
745
4c04137d 746JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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747 distinguished as "(=".
748
1435d4b2
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749JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
750 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
751
eea0defe
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752JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
753
754JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
755 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 756
4c04137d 757JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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758 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
759
1c788856
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760JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
761 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
762 compatible.
763
e3b1f624
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764JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
765 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
766 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
767 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
768
a57ce043
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769JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
770
f59aaaaa 771JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
772 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
773 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 774
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775JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
776 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
777 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
778 be lost.
779
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780JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
781 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
782 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
783 itself :(
784
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785JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
786 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
787 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
788
3cc3f762
JH
789JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
790 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
791 options.
792
ae5afa61
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793JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
794
317e40ac
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795PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
796 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
797
8b0fb68e
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798PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
799 are not in the system include path.
800
ad7fc6eb 801JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 802 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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803 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
804 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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806JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
807 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
808 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
809
5ddc9771
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810JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
811
8d73599f
JH
812HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
813 an incoming connection.
814
446415f5
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815HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
816 to rspamd.
817
8e53a4fc
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818HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
819 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 820
87cb4a16 821JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 822 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
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823
824
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828JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
829 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
830 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
831 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 832
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833TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
834 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
835
ac881e27
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836TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
837 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
838 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
839 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
840 outgoing I= field.
841
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842JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
843 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
844 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
845 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
846 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
847 check on the next write.
848
f1b81d81
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849HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
850 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
851 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
852 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
853 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
854
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855JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
856 mime_regex ACL conditions.
857
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858JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
859 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
860 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
861
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862JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
863 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
864 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
865 an authenticate fail is not an error.
866
56c2a7be
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867HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
868 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
869
4c04137d 870JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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871 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
872
6f6dedcc
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873JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
874 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
875 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
876 distinct.
877
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878JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
879
880JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
881
ec0eb1a3
JH
882JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
883
41e93589
JH
884JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
885 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
886
98b98887 887JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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888 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
889
98b98887
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890JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
891
858e91c2
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892JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
893 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
894
895JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
896
6ff55e50
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897JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
898 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
899
3b957582
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900JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
901
23f3dc67
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902JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
903 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 904 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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905 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
906 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
907 they will retry in-clear.
908 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
909 at installation time.
910
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911HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
912 with the $config_file variable.
913
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914JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
915 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
916 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
917 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 918 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 919
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920GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
921 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
922 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
923 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
924 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
925
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926JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
927
7f06582c
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928JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
929 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
930 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
931 list order is no longer honoured.
932
4c04137d 933JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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934 for DKIM processing.
935
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936JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
937 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 938
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939JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
940 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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941 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
942 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 943
8c5d388a
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944JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
945 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
946
2d8d625b
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947JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
948 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
949
0cbf2b82
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950JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
951 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
952
f2f2c91b
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953JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
954
ce325893
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955JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
956 cached by the daemon.
957
de78e2d5
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958JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
959 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
960
379ba7d0
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961JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
962 keys are given for lookup.
963
f444c2c7
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964JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
965 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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966 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
967 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 968
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969JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
970 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
971 server-side so match that on older versions.
972
07c73177 973JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 974 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 975 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 976
4f6ae5c3
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977JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
978 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
979
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980JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
981 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
982 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 983 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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984 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
985 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
986 initial truncated version.
987
ab9152ff 988JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 989
67e87fcf
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990JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
991
ab9152ff
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992JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
993 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
994
af483912
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995JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
996
bc3c7bb7 997HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 998
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999JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1000 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1001 induced overflows.
1002
59eaad2b
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1003JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1004 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1005 stage.
1006
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1007JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1008 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1009
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1010JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1011 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1012 former class.
1013
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1014JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1015 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1016 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1017
93cc2d6e
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1018JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1019 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1020 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1021 extraction. Accept either.
1022
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4c57a40e 1026
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1027JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1028 expanded.
1029
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1030JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1031
ad07e9ad
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1032JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1033 it.
1034
01a4a5c5 1035JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1036 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
01a4a5c5
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1037 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1038 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1039
cb1d7830 1040JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1041 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1042 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1043
610ff438 1044JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1045 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1046 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1047 TLS connections
610ff438 1048
f926e272
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1049JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1050 sites use this now.
1051
50dc7409
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1052JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1053 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1054 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1055 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1056 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1057
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1058JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1059 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1060 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1061
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1062JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1063
aeaf5db3
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1064JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1065 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1066
5032d1cf
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1067JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1068 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1069
7e8360e6
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1070JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1071 /defer_ok option.
1072
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1073JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1074 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1075
fd4d8871 1076JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1077 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
fd4d8871
R
1078 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1079
1080JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1081 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1082 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1083
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1084JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1085 timeout value per server.
1086
2ad78978
JH
1087JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1088 now have the list separator specified.
1089
8a512ed5 1090JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1091 option values.
8a512ed5 1092
82c0c8ea 1093JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1094 under OpenSSL.
1095
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1096JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1097
82c0c8ea
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1098JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1099 rather than the verbs used.
1100
b980ed83
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1101JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1102 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1103
6c9ed72e
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1104JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1105
cfab9d68 1106HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1107 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1108
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1109JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1110 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1111
fd4c285c
HSHR
1112HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1113 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1114
4c04137d 1115JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1116
d2a2c69b
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1117JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1118
8241d8dd
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1119JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1120 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1121 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1122 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1123
1f12df4d
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1124JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1125
1f155f8e
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1126JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1127 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1128
1705dd20
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1129JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1130 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1131
038597d2
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1132JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1133
474f71bf
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1134JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1135
7137ca4b
JH
1136JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1137
dcb1095c
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1138JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1139 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1140
2f460950
JH
1141JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1142 added for tls authenticator.
1143
2f680c0c
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1144HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1145
9c695f6d 1146
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4c57a40e 1149
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1150TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1151 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1152 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1153 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1154 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1155 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1156 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1157
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1158TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1159 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1160 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1161 function when detected.
1162
a9b8ec8b
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1163JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1164 cause callback expansion.
1165
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TL
1166TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1167 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1168 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1169 instead of bool when processing it.
1170
0f06b4f2 1171JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1172 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1173
be36e572
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1174JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1175
ac4ef9bd
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1176JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1177
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1178TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1179
c713ca4b
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1180TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1181 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1182
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1183JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1184 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1185 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1186 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1187 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1188 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1189
8bc732e8
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1190JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1191 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1192 exceeded it.
1193
a7fec7a7
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1194JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1195 version 3.3.6 or later.
1196
4c04137d 1197JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1198 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1199 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1200 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1201 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1202 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1203 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1204
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1205TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1206 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1207
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1208JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1209 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1210 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1211 matches.
1212
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1213JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1214 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1215 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1216
ad4c5ff9
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1217JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1218 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1219
1220JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1221 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1222 syntax errors.
1223
3394b36a 1224JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1225
1226JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1227 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1228
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1229TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1230 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1231 tarball.
1232
ad4c5ff9
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1233JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1234
4c04137d 1235JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1236 Bug 1561.
1237
1238JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1239 output list separator was used.
1240
8bc732e8 1241
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1244TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1245 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1246 return.
1f0ebb98 1247
a612424f 1248JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1249 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1250
1251JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1252
1253TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1254 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1f0ebb98 1256
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1259
1260TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1261
1262 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1263 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1264 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1265 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1266 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1267 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1268
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1269TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1270 utilities have not been installed.
1271
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1272JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1273 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1274
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1275TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1276 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1277
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1278TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1279 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1280 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1281 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1282
aa26e137
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1283JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1284
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1285TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1286 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1287
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1288PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1289 not dns_use_dnssec.
1290
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1291JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1292
770747fd
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1293TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1294 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1295 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1296
8ddef691 1297TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1298 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1299 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1300 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1301 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1302 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1303
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1304JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1305
e45a1c37
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1306JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1307 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1308
67d81c10
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1309JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1310 failed delivery.
1311
b1f8e4f8
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1312JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1313
511a6c14 1314JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1315
1316JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1317 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1318
51c7471d
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1319JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1320 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1321
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1322TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1323
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1324JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1325
76146973
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1326JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1327 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1328
1329 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1330 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1331 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1332
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TL
1333TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1334 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1335 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1336 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1337
35aba663
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1338JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1339
8c51eead 1340JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1341 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1342 lookup).
8c51eead 1343
deae092e
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1344TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1345 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1346 Schlichting.
35aba663 1347
fd3b6a4a 1348JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1349 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1350
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1351TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1352 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1353
2b4a568d
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1354JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1355
d2af03f4
HS
1356TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1357 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1358 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1359
9d1c15ef
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1360JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1361 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1362
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1363JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1364 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1365 hosts_request_ocsp.
1366
ed3bba5f 1367JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1368 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1369 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1370
8ccd00b1
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1371JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1372
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1373TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1374 Christian Aistleitner.
1375
f2de3a33
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1376JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1377
6eb02f88
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1378TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1379 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1380
00bff6f6
JH
1381JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1382 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1383
071c51f7
JH
1384JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1385 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1386
a6d4c44e
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1387TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1388 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1389
3ae173e7
ACK
1390TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1391 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1392
c13d09b8
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1393TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1394 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1395 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1396
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1397JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1398
66be95e0
PP
1399PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1400 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1401 Jasper Wallace.
1402
1bd0d12b
JH
1403JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1404
0de7239e
TL
1405TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1406 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1407 CVE-2014-2972
1408
fd3b6a4a 1409
2c422e6f 1410Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1411-----------------
1412
1413PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1414
12f69989
PP
1415PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1416 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1417
54c90be1
PP
1418PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1419 by GnuTLS.
1420
1f4a55da
PP
1421PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1422 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1423 routines.
1424
13363eba 1425PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1426
66645890 1427PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1428 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1429 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1430 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1431 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1432
a3fb9793 1433PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1434 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1435 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1436 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1437 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1438 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1439
d27f98fe 1440TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1441
6822b909
TL
1442TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1443
e7568d51
TL
1444TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1445 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1446
ae0e32ee 1447TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1448 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1449 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1450
1451TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1452
e2658fff
TL
1453TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1454
83712b39
TL
1455TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1456 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1457
976b7e9f
JH
1458JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1459
be4a1376
JH
1460JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1461
ec4b68e5
PP
1462PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1463
d7148a07
NM
1464NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1465 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1466
585121e2 1467JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1468
2519e60d
TL
1469PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1470 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1471 function.
a5f239e4 1472
13d08c90
PP
1473PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1474 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1475
bef3ea7f
JH
1476JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1477 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1478 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1479
846726c5
JH
1480JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1481
3a796370
JH
1482JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1483
ea722490 1484JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1485 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1486
b1b05573
JH
1487JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1488 Bugzilla 884.
1489
362145b5
JH
1490JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1491 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1492
3c0a92dc
JH
1493JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1494 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1495
6d7c6175
PP
1496PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1497 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1498 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1499
6f123593
JH
1500JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1501 authenticators.
1502
c8e2fc1e
JH
1503JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1504 for control.
1505
005ac57f
PP
1506PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1507
3f1df0e3
PP
1508PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1509 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1510 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1511 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1512
67bd1ab3
TF
1513TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1514
1515 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1516 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1517 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1518 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1519 the retry rules.
1520
1521 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1522 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1523 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1524
1525 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1526 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1527 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1528 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1529
1ddeb334
TF
1530 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1531 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1532 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1533 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1534 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1535 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1536 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1537
1538 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1539 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1540
326cdc37
TF
1541TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1542
1543 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1544
1545 Resent-From: f
1546
1547 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1548 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1549 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1550 username as equal to the username.
1551
1552 This change corrects that bug.
1553
f62514b3
GF
1554GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1555 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1556 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1557
eb505532
TF
1558TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1559
14c7b357
PP
1560PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1561 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1562 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1563 NULL dereference and crash.
1564
94eaf700
PP
1565JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1566
6f5a440a
PP
1567PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1568 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1569 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1570
514ee161
SC
1571SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1572
fd98a5c6
JH
1573JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1574 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1575 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1576 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1577 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1578 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1579 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1580 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1581 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1582 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1583 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1584
035c7f1e
PP
1585PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1586 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1587
ff284120
PP
1588PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1589 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1590 Bugzilla 880.
1591
26e72755
PP
1592PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1593 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1594 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1595 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1596 an empty string is now equivalent.
1597
0fbd9bff
PP
1598PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1599 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1600 not performing validation itself.
1601
700d22f3
PP
1602PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1603 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1604
fcc8e047
JH
1605JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1606 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1607
4c04137d 1608TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1609
8c020188
PP
1610PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1611 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1612 other false fix of the same issue.
1613 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1614 Bugzilla 1363.
1615
d13cdd30
PP
1616PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1617 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1618
e2fbf4a2
PP
1619PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1620 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1621 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1622
f4c1088b
PP
1623PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1624 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1625 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1626
c5c2182f
PP
1627TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1628
73431ca9
JH
1629JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1630
2d07a215
TL
1631TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1632 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1633
a30a8861
TL
1634TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1635 Alexander Miroch.
1636
33382dd9
TL
1637TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1638 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1639 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1640 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1641 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1642
046172e6
TL
1643TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1644 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1645
581d7bee 1646TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1647 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1648 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1649
1650TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1651 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1652 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1653 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1654
237b2cf2
TL
1655TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1656
9fc5a352
TL
1657TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1658 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1659 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1660
b10e4ec2
TL
1661TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1662
e2cebd74
TL
1663TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1664 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1665 interaction.
1666
1667TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1668 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1669
2519e60d
TL
1670TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1671 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1672
e78e6ecf 1673
4263f395
PP
1674Exim version 4.80.1
1675-------------------
1676
1677PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1678 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1679 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1680
ea722490 1681
b1770b6e 1682Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1683-----------------
1684
1685PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1686 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1687 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1688
23c7e742
NM
1689NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1690
b322aac8
NM
1691NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1692 improved.
1693
4a891427
NM
1694NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1695
c1e794ba 1696PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1697
97753960
PP
1698PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1699
1700PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1701 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1702
df6303fa
PP
1703PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1704 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1705
7e6a8985
PP
1706PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1707 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1708
f1e05cc7 1709PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1710 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1711 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1712
4c287009
PP
1713PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1714
b98bb9ac
PP
1715PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1716 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1717
4a6a987a
PP
1718PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1719
c45dd180 1720PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1721
7db8d074
PP
1722PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1723 non-compliant senders.
1724 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1725
eae0036b 1726NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1727 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1728 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1729
dec5017e
PP
1730PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1731 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1732 in spool file corruption.
1733
c80c5570
PP
1734PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1735 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1736 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1737 "Got SSL error 2".
1738
076b11e2
PP
1739TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1740 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1741 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1742
5407bfff
JH
1743JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1744 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1745
9e45c72b
PP
1746JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1747
e74376d8
PP
1748PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1749 diagnostics.
1750 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1751
4c04137d 1752PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1753 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1754 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1755
7be682ca
PP
1756PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1757 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1758 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1759 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1760
ef840681
PP
1761PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1762 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1763
5bfb4cdf
PP
1764PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1765 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1766 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1767 resolver implementation change.
1768
c6e95d22
PP
1769PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1770 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1771
9cbad13b
PP
1772PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1773
9ee44efb
PP
1774PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1775
6a6084f8
PP
1776PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1777 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1778
12dd53c7
PP
1779PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1780 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1781
9e45c72b 1782JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1783 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1784
17c76198
PP
1785PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1786 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1787 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1788 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1789 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1790
53947857 1791PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1792
eae0036b 1793PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1794 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1795 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1796
9e45c72b 1797JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1798
7390e768
PP
1799PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1800 read-only, out of scope).
1801 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1802
08488c86
PP
1803PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1804 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1805 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1806 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1807
6475bd82
PP
1808PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1809
81f91683
PP
1810PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1811 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1812 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1813 real issues in debug logging.
1814
5779e6aa
PP
1815PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1816 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1817
3375e053
PP
1818PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1819 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1820 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1821
1822PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1823 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1824 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1825 problems.
3375e053 1826
9d26b8c0
PP
1827PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1828 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1829
57eb9e91 1830PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1831 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1832 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1833 needs to override this, it can.
1834
16880d1a
PP
1835PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1836 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1837 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1838
a799883d
PP
1839PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1840 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1841 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1842 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1843
3ecab157 1844PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1845
0599f9cf 1846
867fcbf5
PP
1847Exim version 4.77
1848-----------------
1849
1850PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1851 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1852
f1a29782
TF
1853TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1854
ab42bd23
TK
1855TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1856 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1857
0ca0cf52
TF
1858TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1859 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1860
921b12ca
TF
1861TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1862 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1863 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1864
1865 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1866 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1867 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1868 not safe for signals.
1869
1870 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1871 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1872 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1873 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1874 exiwhat.
1875
c99ce5c9
TF
1876TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1877
1878 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1879 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1880 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1881 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1882 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1883
1884 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1885 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1886 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1887 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1888 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1889 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1890
1891 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1892 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1893 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1894 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1895
1896 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1897 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1898 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1899 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1900
1901 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1902 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1903 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1904 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1905 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1906 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1907 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1908 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1909 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1910
1911 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1912 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1913 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1914 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1915
1916 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1917 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1918 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1919 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1920 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1921 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1922 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1923 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1924 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1925 details in the main documentation.
1926
3634fc25
TF
1927TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1928
792e8a19
TF
1929TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1930
5901f0ab
TF
1931TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1932 repository when doing development or release builds.
1933
7f2a2a43
PP
1934PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1935 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1936
061b7ebd
PP
1937PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1938 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1939 Bugzilla 97.
1940
e12f8c32
PP
1941PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1942
9e949f00 1943PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1944 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1945
1946PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1947 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1948
555ae6af 1949PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1950 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1951
1952PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1953 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1954
6f7fe114
PP
1955PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1956 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1957
c566dd90
PP
1958PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1959 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1960 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1961 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1962
d6cc7c78 1963PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1964 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1965 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1966
0d0e4455
PP
1967PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1968
3399bb60 1969PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1970
1971PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1972 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1973
0ca0cf52 1974
10906672
PP
1975Exim version 4.76
1976-----------------
1977
1978PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1979
754a0503
PP
1980PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1981 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1982
c0c7b2da
PP
1983PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1984
e97d1f08
PP
1985PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1986
084c1d8c
PP
1987PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1988 Bugzilla 1098.
1989
4e7ee012
PP
1990PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1991 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1992
c8d52a00
PP
1993TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1994 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1995
54e7ce4a
PP
1996PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1997 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1998
5ee6f336
PP
1999PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2000 Bugzilla 1104.
2001
c8d52a00 2002TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2003 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2004
2005TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2006 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2007 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2008 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2009
2010PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2011 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2012
10906672 2013
aa097c4c
NM
2014Exim version 4.75
2015-----------------
2016
4c04137d 2017NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2018 Bugzilla 1073
2019
7f3d9eff
TF
2020TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2021 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2022 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2023
159f52d2
TF
2024TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2025 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2026
0cc9542a
PP
2027PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2028 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2029 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2030
f7274286
PP
2031PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2032 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2033
7b797365
PP
2034PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2035 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2036
caacae52
NM
2037NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2038 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2039
09dcaba9
NM
2040NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2041 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2042
bc19a55b
PP
2043PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2044 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2045
bd4c9759
NM
2046NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2047 Fixes bug 943.
2048
b72aab72
PP
2049PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2050 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2051
2fe76745
PP
2052PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2053 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2054
76aa570c
PP
2055PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2056 SQL string expansion failure details.
2057 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2058
f1e5fef5
PP
2059PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2060 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2061
4d805ee9
PP
2062PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2063 extern declarations in function scope.
2064 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2065
cd59ab18
PP
2066PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2067 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2068 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2069 a kernel bug).
2070
332f5cf3
PP
2071PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2072 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2073
29cfeb94
PP
2074PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2075 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2076
660242ad
PP
2077PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2078 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2079
bc4bc4c5
PP
2080PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2081 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2082
2e64baa9
NM
2083NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2084 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2085 Dennis Davis.
2086
4c04137d 2087PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2088
6bac1a9a
PP
2089PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2090
552193f0
NM
2091NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2092 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2093
1b587e48
TF
2094TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2095 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2096
aa097c4c 2097
8c07b69f
TF
2098Exim version 4.74
2099-----------------
2100
2101TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2102 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2103
c0ea85ab
TF
2104TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2105 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2106
0761d44e
TF
2107TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2108
0a349494
PP
2109DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2110 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2111 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2112
2113PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2114 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2115 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2116
fea24b2e
PP
2117PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2118 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2119 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2120 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2121
6545de78
PP
2122PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2123 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2124 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2125 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2126
1670ef10
PP
2127PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2128 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2129 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2130 arbitrary files.
2131
c0886197
PP
2132PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2133 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2134
b7487bce
PP
2135PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2136 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2137 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2138 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2139 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2140
8c07b69f 2141
97fd1e48 2142Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2143-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2144
2145PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2146 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2147 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2148
6901c596
PP
2149PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2150 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2151
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2152JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2153
77bb000f
PP
2154PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2155
a29e5231
PP
2156PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2157
ec5a0394 2158PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2159
55c75993
PP
2160PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2161
453a6645 2162PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2163 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2164 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2165 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2166
8544e77a
PP
2167PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2168 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2169 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2170 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2171 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2172
83e029d5
PP
2173PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2174
ed7f7860
PP
2175PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2176
7d9f747b
PP
2177PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2178
4b2241d2
PP
2179PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2180
10385c15
PP
2181PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2182
dbc4b90d
PP
2183PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2184
532be449
PP
2185PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2186
6a8de854 2187PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2188 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2189 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2190
5dc43717
JJ
2191JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2192
2193JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2194 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2195
3346ab01
PP
2196PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2197 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2198
491fab4c
PP
2199PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2200 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2201 Notification from John Horne.
2202
13eb9497
PP
2203PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2204 compatible.
2205
2206PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2207 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2208 it normally works.
2209
7f36d675
DW
2210DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2211 access.
2212
c1d94452
DW
2213DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2214 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2215 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2216
e2f5dc15
DW
2217DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2218 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2219 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2220 configuration file.
2221
cd25e41d
DW
2222DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2223 option (effectively making it always true).
2224
261dc43e
DW
2225DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2226 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2227
fa32850b
DW
2228DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2229 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2230
79d4bc3d
PP
2231PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2232 run-time user, instead of root.
2233
43236f35 2234PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2235 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2236
fb08281f
DW
2237DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2238 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2239 arguments.
3346ab01 2240
74935b98
DW
2241DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2242 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2243 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2244
90b6341f
DW
2245DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2246
57730b52
ML
2247NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2248
66581d1e 2249
465e92cf
JJ
2250Exim version 4.72
2251-----------------
2252
453a6645
PP
2253JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2254 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2255 typos
465e92cf 2256
453a6645
PP
2257JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2258 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2259 (Finput)
edae0343 2260
9bd3e22c
NM
2261NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2262 Patch from Alain Williams
2263
bb576ff7
NM
2264NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2265
5a1a5845
NM
2266NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2267 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2268
981a9fad
NM
2269NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2270 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2271
7fc497ee
NM
2272NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2273
1a41defa
JJ
2274JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2275
a466095c 2276NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2277 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2278
94a6bd0b
NM
2279TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2280
2281TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2282
2283MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2284 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2285 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2286
c1b141a8
NM
2287NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2288 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2289
b26eacf1 2290NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2291 Patch by Simon Arlott
2292
179c5980 2293PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2294 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2295
9bd3e22c 2296
7c6d71af
NM
2297Exim version 4.71
2298-----------------
2299
7d9f747b 2300TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2301
f013fb92
NM
2302NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2303
0eb8eedd
NM
2304NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2305
663ee6d9
NM
2306NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2307
177ebd9b
NM
2308NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2309
7c6d71af 2310
210f147e
NM
2311Exim version 4.70
2312-----------------
2313
cdd3bb85 2314TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2315 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2316
2317TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2318 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2319 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2320
2321TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2322 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2323 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2324
2325TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2326 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2327
210f147e
NM
2328NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2329 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2330 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2331 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2332
deafd5b3
NM
2333NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2334 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2335 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2336
089793a4
TF
2337TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2338
5f16ca82
TF
2339TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2340
dae9d94e 2341NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2342 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2343
7d9f747b 2344NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2345
06864c44
TF
2346TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2347 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2348 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2349 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2350
65a7d8c3 2351NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2352 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2353
23510047 2354TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2355
7d9f747b 2356NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2357
7d8eec3a 2358NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2359 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2360
89dec7b6
TF
2361TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2362 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2363
a99de90c
TF
2364TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2365 that they are available at delivery time.
2366
e2803e40
TF
2367TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2368
7199e1ee
TF
2369TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2370 incoming_port log selectors.
2371
e276e04b
TF
2372TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2373 setting expands to an empty string.
2374
ce552449 2375NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2376 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2377
e765a0f1 2378NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2379 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2380
4f054c63 2381NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2382 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2383
7d9f747b
PP
2384NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2385 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2386
7d9f747b
PP
2387NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2388 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2389
b52bc06e 2390NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2391 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2392
447de4b0
NM
2393NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2394
4c69d561 2395NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2396 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2397
d5c39246 2398NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2399 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2400
0b23848a
TK
2401TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2402
8f3414a1 2403NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2404 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2405
fb6f955d
NM
2406NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2407
2408NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2409
7d9f747b
PP
2410NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2411 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2412
7d9f747b
PP
2413NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2414 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2415
7d9f747b
PP
2416NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2417 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2418
7d9f747b
PP
2419NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2420 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2421
7d9f747b
PP
2422NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2423 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2424
7d9f747b
PP
2425NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2426 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2427
7d9f747b
PP
2428NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2429 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2430
7d9f747b 2431NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2432 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2433
7d9f747b 2434NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2435
7d9f747b
PP
2436NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2437 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2438
7d9f747b 2439NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2440
7d9f747b 2441NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2442
7d9f747b 2443NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2444
7d9f747b 2445NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2446
17792b53 2447NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2448 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2449
7d9f747b
PP
2450NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2451 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2452
91576cec 2453NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2454 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2455
7d9f747b
PP
2456NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2457 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2458
7d9f747b 2459NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2460
7d9f747b 2461NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2462
7d9f747b 2463NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2464
7d9f747b 2465NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2466
deafd5b3 2467
47db1125
NM
2468Exim version 4.69
2469-----------------
2470
4b3504d0
TK
2471TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2472 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2473 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2474
2475 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2476 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2477 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2478 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2479 build errors in sieve.c.
2480
81ea09ca
NM
2481NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2482 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2483 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2484
f13cddcb
SC
2485SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2486
7d9f747b 2487NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2488
7d9f747b 2489NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2490
7d9f747b 2491NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2492
2493
eb4c0de6
PH
2494Exim version 4.68
2495-----------------
2496
2497PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2498
6a3bceb1
PH
2499PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2500 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2501 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2502 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2503 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2504 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2505 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2506 for iplsearch lookups.
2507
2508 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2509 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2510 previously such lookups could never work.
2511
4c04137d 2512 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2513 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2514 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2515
2e30fa9d
TK
2516TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2517 version.
2518
0806a9c5
MH
2519MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2520 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2521 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2522 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2523 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2524 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2525
ae276964
TK
2526TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2527 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2528
0f2cbd1b
MH
2529MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2530 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2531 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2532 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2533 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2534 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2535
2b85bce7
PH
2536PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2537 local_scan API.
2538
93655c46
PH
2539PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2540
6c512171
PH
2541PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2542 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2543 encrypted.
2544
2545PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2546 by clients under certain conditions.
2547
aa6dc513
PH
2548PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2549 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2550
a96603a0
PH
2551PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2552
8f240103
PH
2553PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2554 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2555
2556PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2557
d677b2f2
PH
2558PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2559
d52120f2
PH
2560PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2561
64f2600a
PH
2562PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2563 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2564
8669f003
PH
2565PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2566
a4dc33a8
PH
2567PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2568 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2569
d6a60c0f
PH
2570PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2571
8f128379
PH
2572PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2573
8932dffe
PH
2574PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2575 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2576 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2577 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2578
ddea74fa 2579PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2580 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2581 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2582
ddea74fa 2583PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2584 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2585
ddea74fa
PH
2586PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2587
ce9f225c
PH
2588PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2589
19897d52
PH
2590PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2591
bc64a74d
PH
2592PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2593 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2594 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2595
eb4c0de6 2596
b4ed4da0
PH
2597Exim version 4.67
2598-----------------
2599
22ad45c9
MH
2600MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2601 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2602 Jan Srzednicki.
2603
b4ed4da0
PH
2604PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2605 issue a MAIL command.
2606
431b7361
PH
2607PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2608
2609 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2610
2611 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2612 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2613 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2614 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2615 item. This has been fixed.
2616
2617PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2618 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2619
83da1223
PH
2620PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2621 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2622
54fc8428
PH
2623PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2624 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2625 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2626
34c5e8dd
SC
2627SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2628
bbe15da8
PH
2629PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2630 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2631 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2632 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2633 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2634
0e8a9471
MH
2635MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2636 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2637 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2638
f0872424
PH
2639PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2640 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2641 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2642 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2643
b01dd148
PH
2644PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2645
6bf342e1
PH
2646PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2647
273f34d0
PH
2648PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2649 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2650 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2651 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2652 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2653
cf8b11a5
PH
2654PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2655
41c7c167
PH
2656PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2657 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2658 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2659 values).
2660
9c57cbc0
PH
2661PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2662
f3f065bb
PH
2663PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2664
047bdd8c
PH
2665PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2666
0ce9abe6
PH
2667PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2668
0e22dfd1
PH
2669PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2670
4c590bd1
PH
2671PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2672 no_callout_flush is set.
2673
09945f1e
PH
2674PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2675 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2676 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2677 fixed.
2678
c51b8e75
PH
2679PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2680
e28326d8 2681PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2682 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2683 other ACL rejections are.
2684
75b1493f
PH
2685PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2686 with slight modification.
2687
7c5214ec
PH
2688PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2689 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2690
4311097e
PH
2691PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2692 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2693 connection.
2694
29f89cad
PH
2695PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2696 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2697
5e687460
SC
2698SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2699
c3611384
PH
2700PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2701 expansion side effects.
2702
5a11a7b4
PH
2703PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2704 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2705 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2706 be the same.
2707
0e20aff9
MH
2708MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2709 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2710 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2711
ca86f471
PH
2712PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2713 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2714 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2715 were accidentally chopped off.
2716
a14e5636
PH
2717PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2718 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2719 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2720 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2721 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2722 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2723 pipelining has not been advertised.
2724
ec95d1a6
PH
2725PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2726
42855d71
PH
2727PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2728 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2729 This has been fixed.
2730
57c2c631
PH
2731PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2732 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2733 reported on Solaris.
2734
58c01c94
PH
2735PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2736 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2737 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2738 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2739 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2740 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2741 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2742
dee5a20a
PH
2743PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2744 cpus.
2745
d2ee6114
PH
2746PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2747
b2d5182b
PH
2748PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2749
79749a79
PH
2750PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2751 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2752 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2753 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2754 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2755 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2756
c456d9bb
PH
2757PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2758 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2759 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2760 host_all_ignored option.
2761
cd9868ec
PH
2762PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2763 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2764 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2765 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2766 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2767 is what is supposed to happen).
2768
ebeaf996
PH
2769PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2770 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2771 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2772 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2773 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2774 uses the Exim user.
2775
2679d413
PH
2776PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2777 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2778 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2779 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2780 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2781 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2782 users.
2783
84024b72
PH
2784PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2785
8005d38e
SC
2786SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2787 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2788 (Jez Hancock).
2789 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2790 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2791
3298c6c6
SC
2792SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2793
a43a27c5
PH
2794PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2795
58eb016e 2796PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2797 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2798 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2799 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2800 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2801 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2802 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2803 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2804 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2805 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2806 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2807
b43a74ea
PH
2808PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2809 advertised in response to EHLO.
2810
b4ed4da0 2811
5dd1517f
PH
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2813-----------------
2814
2815PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2816 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2817
2818 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2819 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2820
2821 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2822 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2823 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2824
2825 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2826 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2827 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2828 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2829 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2830
2831
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TK
2832Exim version 4.65
2833-----------------
2834
2835TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2836 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2837 versions. (#438)
2838
d6066548
MH
2839MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2840 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2841 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2842
4362ff0d
PH
2843PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2844 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2845 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2846 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2847 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2848 rather than extend the field.
2849
93cfa765 2850
944e9e9c
TF
2851Exim version 4.64
2852-----------------
aa41d2de 2853
21d74bd9
TK
2854TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2855 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2856 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2857 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2858 these files.
2859
2860TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2861 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2862 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2863
2864TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2865 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2866 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2867
2868TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2869 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2870 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2871 in the field name.
2872
2b1c6e3a
PH
2873PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2874 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2875 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2876 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2877 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2878 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2879 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2880 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2881 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2882 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2883 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2884
1f872c80
PH
2885PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2886 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2887
2888PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2889 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2890 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2891 ignores EPIPE as well.
2892
d203e649
PH
2893PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2894 (quoted-printable decoding).
2895
cc2ed8f7 2896PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2897 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2898
ddfcd446
PH
2899PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2900
d45b1de8
PH
2901PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2902
2903PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2904
38a0a95f 2905PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2906 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2907
a2405d83
JJ
2908JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2909 in 4.64-PH/09.
2910
2911JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2912 miscellaneous code fixes
2913
6ea85e9a
PH
2914PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2915 rejections.
2916
26da7e20
PH
2917PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2918 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2919 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2920 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2921 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2922 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2923 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2924 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2925
14aa5a05 2926PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2927 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2928 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2929 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2930 function.
2931 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2932 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2933 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2934 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2935 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2936 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2937 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2938 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2939 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2940
ff75a1f7
PH
2941PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2942 decoding.
2943
e6f6568e
PH
2944PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2945 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2946 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2947 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2948 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2949 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2950 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2951 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2952
d6f6e0dc
PH
2953PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2954 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2955 list.
2956
322050c2
PH
2957PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2958 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2959 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2960 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2961 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2962 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2963 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2964 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2965 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2966 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2967 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2968 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2969 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2970
08955dd3
PH
2971PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2972 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2973 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2974 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2975 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2976 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2977 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2978
1eccaa59
PH
2979PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2980 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2981 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2982 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2983 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2984 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2985 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2986 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2987 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2988 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2989
602e59e5
PH
2990PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2991 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2992 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2993 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2994 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2995
411ef850
PH
2996PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2997 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2998 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2999 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3000 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3001 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3002 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3003
7befa435
PH
3004PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3005 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3006 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3007 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3008 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3009 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3010 been verified.
3011
48da4259 3012PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3013 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3014 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3015 and authorization.)
3016
48da4259
PH
3017PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3018 if any retry times were supplied.
3019
d1d5595c
PH
3020PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3021 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3022 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3023
0ef732d9
PH
3024PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3025
328895cc
PH
3026PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3027
fd700877
PH
3028PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3029 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3030 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3031 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3032 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3033 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3034
8dce1a6f
PH
3035PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3036 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3037
17af4a17
PH
3038PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3039 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3040 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3041
3042PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3043 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3044 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3045 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3046 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3047 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3048 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3049 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3050 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3051
3052 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3053 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3054 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3055 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3056 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3057 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3058 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3059 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3060 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3061
3062 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3063 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3064 hammering the server.
3065
c1114884
PH
3066PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3067 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3068
7a0743eb
PH
3069PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3070
0d85fa3f
PH
3071PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3072 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3073 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3074
1bf43b78
PH
3075PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3076 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3077 one case where this was not true.
3078
520de300
PH
3079PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3080 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3081 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3082 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3083 fails.
3084
48c7f9e2
PH
3085PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3086 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3087 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3088 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3089 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3090 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3091 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3092 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3093 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3094 smtp transport.
3095
99ea1c86
PH
3096PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3097 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3098 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3099 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3100
a2042e78
PH
3101PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3102 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3103
4fbcfc2e
PH
3104PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3105 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3106 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3107
aa41d2de
PH
3108PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3109
af561417
PH
3110PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3111
3cc66b45
PH
3112PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3113
194cc0e4
PH
3114PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3115 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3116 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3117 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3118
a401ddaa
PH
3119PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3120 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3121
4e88a19f
PH
3122PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3123 be meaningful with "accept".
3124
d7d7b289
SC
3125SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3126 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3127
3128SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3129 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3130 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3131
3132SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3133 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3134 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3135 there is data to show.
3136 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3137
3138SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3139 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3140 as well as the number of messages.
3141
3142SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3143 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3144 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3145
3146SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3147 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3148 have a flag are now skipped.
3149
3150SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3151 Added the -emptyok flag.
3152
3153SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3154 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3155
0ea2a468
JJ
3156JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3157 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3158 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3159
3160JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3161 match 4.64-PH/13
3162
3163JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3164 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3165
3166JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3167
3168JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3169 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3170
8a10f5a4
PH
3171PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3172
30e18802
PH
3173PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3174 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3175 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3176 contravention of the specifications.
3177
55728a4f
PH
3178PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3179 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3180 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3181
d7837193
PH
3182PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3183 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3184 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3185
87054a31
PH
3186PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3187
ea2c01d2
MH
3188MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3189 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3190 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3191 some point in the past.
3192
e4fa6968
PH
3193PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3194 transport during callout processing was broken.
3195
56f5d9bd
PH
3196PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3197 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3198
922e1c28
PH
3199PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3200 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3201
21eb6e72
PH
3202PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3203 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3204
a0540757
PH
3205PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3206
944e9e9c 3207
478be7b0
SC
3208Exim version 4.63
3209-----------------
3210
3211SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3212 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3213
3214SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3215 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3216 there is data to show.
3217 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3218
3219SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3220 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3221
2b965a65
TF
3222TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3223 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3224
45b91596
PH
3225TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3226 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3227
c59f5781
TF
3228TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3229 submissions from trusted users.
3230
90fc3069
TF
3231TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3232 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3233
6083aca0
TF
3234TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3235 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3236 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3237 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3238 there is now a framework to start from.
3239
765b530f
PH
3240PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3241 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3242 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3243
4e167a8c
PH
3244PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3245
4608d683
PH
3246PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3247
b8dc3e4a
PH
3248PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3249
5418e93b
PH
3250PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3251 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3252 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3253
b4a9bda2
PH
3254PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3255 libradius.
3256
45b91596
PH
3257PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3258 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3259 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3260
5547e2c5
PH
3261PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3262 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3263 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3264 its arguments.
3265
dbcef0ea
PH
3266PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3267 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3268 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3269 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3270 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3271
25257489
PH
3272PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3273 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3274
c816d124
PH
3275PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3276
a9ccd69a
PH
3277PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3278 operations in malware.c.
3279
75fa1910
PH
3280PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3281 signatures.
3282
a7d7aa58
PH
3283PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3284 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3285 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3286 all.
3287
42119b09
PH
3288PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3289 statements to "add_header".
3290
41609df5
PH
3291PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3292 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3293
a5bd321b
PH
3294PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3295 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3296 latter.
3297
e85a7ad5 3298PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3299 so that it is now:
3300
e85a7ad5
PH
3301 ${if or { \
3302 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3303 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3304 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3305 }{no}{yes}}
3306
e85a7ad5
PH
3307 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3308 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3309
d8fe1c03
PH
3310PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3311 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3312
16282d2b
PH
3313PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3314 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3315 any possible encoding problems.
3316
35d40a98
PH
3317PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3318 but not after initializing Perl.
3319
034d99ab
PH
3320PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3321 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3322 apparently, which is not desirable.
3323
6ec97b1b
PH
3324PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3325 queries.
3326
e22ca4ac
JJ
3327JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3328 --not options
3329
3330JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3331
33d73e3b
PH
3332PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3333 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3334 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3335 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3336
9ecb03f3
PH
3337PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3338 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3339 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3340
084efe8d
PH
3341PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3342 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3343 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3344 0.12.
3345
366fc9f0
PH
3346PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3347 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3348 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3349 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3350 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3351
c59f5781 3352
c887c79e
TF
3353Exim version 4.62
3354-----------------
3355
3356TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3357 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3358
1cce3af8
PH
3359PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3360 patch).
3361
afb3eaaf
PH
3362PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3363 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3364 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3365 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3366 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3367 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3368 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3369 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3370 451 error is used.
3371
e173618b
PH
3372PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3373
dd16e114
PH
3374PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3375 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3376 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3377
f7fd3850
PH
3378PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3379 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3380 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3381 odd errors.
3382
d87df92c
PH
3383PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3384 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3385
7e9f683d
PH
3386PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3387 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3388 option (which defaults to 0600).
3389
bfad5236
PH
3390PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3391
01c490df
PH
3392PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3393 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3394 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3395 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3396 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3397 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3398 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3399
d6629cdc
PH
3400PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3401
1cce3af8 3402
214e2000
PH
3403Exim version 4.61
3404-----------------
3405
3406PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3407 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3408 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3409 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3410 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3411 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3412 addresses as local.
3413
f9daeae0
PH
3414PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3415 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3416
7e66e54d
PH
3417PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3418
c8ea1597
PH
3419PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3420 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3421 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3422 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3423 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3424 grumble.
3425
911f6fde
PH
3426PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3427 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3428
47ca6d6c
PH
3429PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3430 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3431 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3432 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3433 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3434
ed0e9820
PH
3435PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3436 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3437 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3438 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3439
eff37e47
PH
3440PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3441 be the same on different OS.
3442
1921d2ea
PH
3443PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3444 testing.
3445
b3f69ca8
JJ
3446JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3447 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3448
3449JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3450 in 4.61-PH/06
3451
424a1c63
PH
3452PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3453 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3454 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3455 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3456 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3457 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3458 bounce message.
3459
7a100415
PH
3460PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3461 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3462 when Exim was called.
3463
19b9dc85
PH
3464PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3465 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3466
309bd837
PH
3467PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3468 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3469 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3470 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3471
59e82a2a
PH
3472PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3473 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3474 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3475 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3476 changes:
3477
3478 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3479 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3480 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3481
3482 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3483 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3484 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3485
9edc04ce
PH
3486PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3487 feature).
3488
1349e1e5
PH
3489PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3490 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3491 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3492 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3493 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3494 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3495 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3496 values from the SRV records were lost.
3497
ea49d0e1
PH
3498PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3499 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3500 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3501
064a94c9
PH
3502PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3503 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3504 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3505
727071f8
PH
3506PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3507 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3508 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3509 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3510 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3511 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3512 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3513 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3514 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3515 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3516
f78eb7c6
PH
3517PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3518 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3519 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3520
21c28500
PH
3521PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3522 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3523
3524PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3525 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3526 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3527 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3528 is given.
3529
1688f43b
PH
3530PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3531 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3532 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3533
3534PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3535 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3536 PH/23 above applies.
3537
9675b384
PH
3538PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3539 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3540 (for which there is an explicit test).
3541
6a3f1455
PH
3542PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3543
dac79d3e
PH
3544PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3545 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3546 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3547 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3548 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3549
5977a0b3
PH
3550PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3551 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3552 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3553 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3554
c91535f3
PH
3555PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3556 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3557 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3558
0d46a8c8
PH
3559PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3560
278c6e6c
PH
3561PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3562
2cbb4081
PH
3563PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3564 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3565 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3566
3eef829e
PH
3567PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3568 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3569 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3570 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3571 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3572
1ab95fa6
PH
3573PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3574 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3575 the message gets confusing).
3576
230205fc
PH
3577PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3578 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3579 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3580 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3581
75e0e026
PH
3582PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3583 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3584 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3585 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3586 same order.
3587
3588PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3589 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3590 the different processes.
3591
145396a6
PH
3592PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3593
3cd34f13
PH
3594PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3595
11121d3d
JJ
3596JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3597 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3598
3599JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3600 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3601
3602JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3603 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3604 messages matching specified criteria.
3605
8def5aaf
PH
3606PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3607
929ba01c
PH
3608PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3609 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3610
2632889e
PH
3611PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3612 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3613 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3614 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3615 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3616 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3617 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3618 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3619 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3620 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3621
944a9c55
PH
3622PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3623 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3624 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3625
4a23603b
PH
3626PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3627
4730f942
PH
3628PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3629 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3630 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3631 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3632 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3633 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3634 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3635 the variable.
3636
30dba1e6
PH
3637PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3638 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3639
382afc6b
PH
3640PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3641
a86229cf
PH
3642PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3643
50c99ba6
PH
3644PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3645
d35e429d
PH
3646PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3647 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3648 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3649 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3650 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3651 size of the count of files.
3652
f90d018c
PH
3653PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3654
75def545
PH
3655PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3656 used in LMTP mode:
3657
3658 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3659 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3660 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3661 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3662
3663 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3664 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3665 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3666
3667PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3668 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3669 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3670 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3671 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3672
c46782ef
PH
3673PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3674 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3675
71fafd95
PH
3676PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3677 will now be deprecated.
3678
2c5db4fd
PH
3679PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3680
9cf6b11a
JJ
3681JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3682 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3683 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3684
3685JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3686 with very large, slow to parse queues
3687
3688JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3689
3690JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3691
898d150f
PH
3692PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3693 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3694 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3695 SMTP output lines.
3696
46218253
PH
3697PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3698 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3699 Sieve code now uses this.
3700
e97957bc
PH
3701PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3702 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3703
81e509d7
PH
3704PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3705 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3706
3d240ff7
PH
3707PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3708
b37c4101
PH
3709PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3710 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3711 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3712 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3713 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3714
79378e0f
PH
3715PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3716 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3717 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3718 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3719
e49c7bb4
PH
3720PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3721
d114ec46
PH
3722PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3723
f3d7df6c
PH
3724PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3725 is preferred over IPv4.
3726
715ab376
PH
3727PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3728 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3729 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3730 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3731 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3732 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3733 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3734
6b31b150
PH
3735PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3736 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3737 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3738
3739PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3740
d515a917
PH
3741PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3742 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3743 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3744 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3745 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3746 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3747 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3748 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3749 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3750 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3751 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3752
9b8fadde
PH
3753PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3754 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3755 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3756
214e2000 3757
5de37277
PH
3758Exim version 4.60
3759-----------------
3760
cc38ddbf
PH
3761PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3762
3763 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3764 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3765
3766 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3767 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3768 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3769
72fdd6ae
PH
3770PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3771
3772 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3773 not a single digit.
3774
3775 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3776 string.
3777
3778 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3779 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3780 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3781 silly things.
3782
3783 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3784 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3785
3786 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3787 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3788
cb741023
PH
3789PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3790 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3791 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3792
f174f16e
PH
3793PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3794 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3795
c25242d7
PH
3796PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3797 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3798
3799 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3800
3801 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3802 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3803 this:
3804
3805 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3806
82c19f95
PH
3807PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3808 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3809 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3810 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3811 identical. For example:
3812
3813 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3814
3815 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3816 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3817 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3818
d7ffbc12
PH
3819PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3820 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3821 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3822 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3823
9f526266
PH
3824PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3825 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3826 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3827 message.
3828
87fcc8b9
PH
3829PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3830
3831 o fixes some comments
3832 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3833 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3834 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3835 and documents the missing references header update
3836
3837 and most important:
3838
3839 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3840 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3841 result)
3842
456682f5
PH
3843PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3844 Electronic Mail") by including:
3845
3846 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3847
3848 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3849 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3850 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3851 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3852 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3853
3854 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3855
3856 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3857
3858 The auto-replied keyword:
3859
3860 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3861 message by an automatic process,
3862
3863 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3864
3865 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3866 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3867
3868 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3869 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3870 other messages.
3871
3e46c1aa
PH
3872PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3873 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3874
49826d12
PH
3875PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3876
eba0c039
PH
3877PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3878 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3879 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3880
a0d6ba8a
PH
3881PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3882 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3883 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3884
f0917727
PH
3885PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3886 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3887 and treats the condition as false.
3888
096fee00
PH
3889PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3890
024bd3c2
PH
3891PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3892 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3893 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3894 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3895 not changing the active code.
3896
3897 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3898 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3899
3900 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3901 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3902
df199fec
PH
3903PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3904 (Bugzilla #53).
3905
d27f1df3
PH
3906PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3907 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3908 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3909 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3910 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3911 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3912 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3913 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3914 the text comparison.
3915
96776534
PH
3916PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3917 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3918 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3919 The same fix has been applied.
3920
5de37277 3921
9a799bc0
PH
3922Exim version 4.54
3923-----------------
3924
3925PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3926 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3927 It now does.
3928
99a4b039
PH
3929PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3930 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3931
3932PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3933
4b233853
PH
3934PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3935 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3936 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3937 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3938 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3939
8857ccfd
PH
3940TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3941 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3942 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3943 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3944 or /domain=).
3945
433a2980
PH
3946PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3947 testing suite.
3948
3e46c1aa 3949
9a799bc0 3950
e3a311ba
TK
3951Exim version 4.53
3952-----------------
3953
3954TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3955 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3956
13b685f9
PH
3957PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3958
395ff96d
PH
3959PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3960
5b68f6e4
PH
3961PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3962 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3963 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3964
1ab52c69
PH
3965PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3966 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3967 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3968
b07e6aa3
PH
3969PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3970 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3971 operating systems.
3972
254e032f
PH
3973PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3974 ${stat: expansion item.
3975
3af76a81
PH
3976PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3977 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3978
2548ba04
PH
3979PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3980 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3981 file for comments.
3982
b6c6011d
PH
3983PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3984
cf39cf57
PH
3985PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3986 setting.
3987
f1513293
PH
3988PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3989 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3990
727549a4
PH
3991TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3992
af46795e
PH
3993PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3994 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3995 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3996 the end of the subprocess.
3997
d7b47fd0
PH
3998PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3999 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4000 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4001 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4002 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4003
ee744174
JJ
4004JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4005
b582ab87
PH
4006TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4007
41a13e0a
PH
4008PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4009 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4010
f625cc5a
PH
4011PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4012
4013PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4014
21f7af35
PH
4015PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4016 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4017 HP-UX compiler.
4018
31480e42
PH
4019PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4020
2d280592
PH
4021PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4022 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4023 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4024
7cd1141b
PH
4025PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4026 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4027
4028PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4029 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4030
750af86e
PH
4031PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4032 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4033
4034 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4035 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4036
4037 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4038 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4039 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4040 contributed by a Radius user.
4041
4042PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4043 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4044
4304270b
TK
4045TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4046 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4047
750af86e
PH
4048PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4049 available.
4050
64ffc24f
PH
4051PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4052 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4053 received.
4054
5dd9625b
PH
4055PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4056 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4057 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4058 header lines when this was not necessary.
4059
5591031b
PH
4060PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4061
ba18e66a
PH
4062PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4063 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4064 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4065 exists".
4066
9cec981f
PH
4067PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4068 -bV or -d is used.
4069
aa2b5c79
PH
4070PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4071 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4072 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4073 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4074
48a53b7f
PH
4075PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4076
1c59d63b
PH
4077PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4078
671012da
TK
4079TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4080
1509d3a8
PH
4081PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4082
4083PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4084 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4085 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4086 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4087 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4088 settings.
4089
4090PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4091
2fe1a124
PH
4092PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4093 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4094 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4095 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4096 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4097 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4098 which is clearly wrong.
4099
8800895a
PH
4100PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4101
ccfdb010
PH
4102PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4103 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4104 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4105 subsequently added.
4106
1130bfb0
PH
4107PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4108 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4109
ebcb507f
PH
4110PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4111
c35e155c
PH
4112PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4113 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4114
95d1f782
PH
4115PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4116 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4117
fd6de02e
PH
4118PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4119 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4120
58de37c5
PH
4121PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4122 recipients, not senders.
4123
261cf466
TF
4124TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4125 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4126
3ee512ff
PH
4127PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4128
e08c430f
PH
4129PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4130
bef5a11f
PH
4131PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4132 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4133 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4134 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4135
7546de58
TF
4136TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4137
e5d5a95f
TF
4138TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4139 clock is set back in time.
4140
2e88a017
TF
4141TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4142 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4143
a5f65aa4
TF
4144TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4145 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4146
e7726cbf
PH
4147PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4148 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4149 (see PH/47 above).
4150
a7fdad5b
TF
4151TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4152 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4153 header rewrites.
4154
6af56900
PH
4155PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4156 type ("H").
4157
0925ede6
PH
4158PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4159
66afa403
TF
4160TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4161 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4162 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4163
0154e85a
TF
4164TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4165 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4166 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4167 helo verification defer as a failure.
4168
16f12c76
PH
4169PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4170 actual error message.
4171
bbe902f0 4172
e5a9dba6
PH
4173Exim version 4.52
4174-----------------
4175
4176TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4177
22c3b60b
PH
4178PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4179 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4180 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4181 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4182
06a9b4b5
PH
4183TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4184
c1ac6996
PH
4185PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4186 can still be requested.
4187
9c7a242c
PH
4188PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4189 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4190 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4191 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4192
87ba3f5f
PH
4193TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4194 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4195 circumstances, but probably never did.
4196
4197PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4198 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4199 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4200 in the header line.
4201
29aba418
TF
4202TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4203
fe0dab11
TF
4204TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4205 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4206
11d337a4
TK
4207TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4208
4209TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4210
415c8f3b
PH
4211PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4212 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4213 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4214 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4215 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4216 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4217
958541e9
PH
4218PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4219 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4220 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4221 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4222 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4223 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4224
c206415f
TK
4225TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4226 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4227
2a4be8f9
PH
4228PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4229 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4230
1cba11c5
SC
4231SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4232 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4233
4c04137d 4234SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4235
4236SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4237
4238SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4239
4240SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4241
4242SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4243
4244SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4245
1005d00e
TK
4246TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4247
4248TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4249 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4250 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4251
4252TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4253 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4254 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4255 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4256
9b4768fa
PH
4257PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4258 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4259 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4260
4261PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4262 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4263 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4264 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4265
0d7eb84a
PH
4266PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4267 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4268 to be made).
4269
4270PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4271 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4272 should work with maildirs and everything.
4273
40727bee
TK
4274TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4275 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4276
554d2369
TF
4277TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4278 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4279
1f922db1
PH
4280PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4281 function for BDB 4.3.
4282
ef213c3b
PH
4283PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4284
8ac170f3
PH
4285PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4286 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4287 involved.
4288
b1c749bb
PH
4289PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4290 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4291 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4292 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4293 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4294 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4295
4aac9b49
PH
4296PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4297 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4298 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4299 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4300 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4301 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4302 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4303 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4304
294520c8
TK
4305TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4306 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4307 details.
4308
5bd022fe
PH
4309PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4310 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4311
90e9ce59
PH
4312PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4313 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4314 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4315 test. It is now used for both.
4316
5ea81592
PH
4317PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4318 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4319 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4320 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4321 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4322 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4323
c6c2dc1d
PH
4324PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4325 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4326 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4327 string_vformat().
4328
fffffe4c
PH
4329PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4330 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4331 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4332
9a26b6b2
PH
4333PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4334 experimental DomainKeys support:
4335
4336 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4337 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4338 the control was given.
4339
4340 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4341
4aee0225
PH
4342PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4343
32d668a5
PH
4344PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4345
8187c3f3
PH
4346PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4347 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4348 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4349 db.h files).
4350
ff790e47 4351PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4352 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4353 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4354 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4355 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4356 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4357 course.
ff790e47 4358
5417f6d1
PH
4359PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4360 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4361 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4362 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4363 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4364 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4365
59cf8544
PH
4366PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4367 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4368 do -d+all out of habit.
4369
e7ad8a65
PH
4370PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4371 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4372 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4373
ade42478
PH
4374PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4375 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4376 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4377 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4378 record types that Exim uses.
4379
182ad5cf
PH
4380PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4381 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4382 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4383 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4384 non-existent file that was broken.
4385
b0d9fc80
TK
4386TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4387 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4388
4389TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4390 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4391 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4392
4393TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4394
47c7a64a
PH
4395PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4396 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4397 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4398 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4399 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4400 same time.
4401
a388bce4
SC
4402SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4403 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4404 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4405 at a slight CPU cost.
4406
4407SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4408 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4409
4410SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4411 by Marc Sherman.
4412
0793e4ed
SC
4413SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4414
c58b88df
PH
4415PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4416 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4417
e7ad8a65 4418
7982096b
PH
4419Exim version 4.51
4420-----------------
4421
1a46a8c5
PH
4422TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4423 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4424
2f079f46 4425TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4426
4427TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4428
4429PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4430 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4431
4432PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4433 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4434 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4435 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4436 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4437 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4438 file.
4439
4440PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4441 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4442 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4443 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4444 these two options.
4445
4446PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4447 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4448 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4449 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4450 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4451 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4452 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4453 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4454
4455PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4456 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4457
4458PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4459 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4460 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4461 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4462 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4463 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4464
4465PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4466 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4467 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4468 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4469
4470PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4471 Finch).
4472
4473PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4474 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4475
49c2d5ea
PH
4476PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4477 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4478 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4479 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4480 message.
49c2d5ea 4481
bf759a8b
PH
4482PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4483
83364d30
PH
4484PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4485 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4486
7999bbd7
PH
4487PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4488 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4489 to what was transported.)
4490
7dbf77c9
PH
4491TF/01 Added $received_time.
4492
74e0617f
PH
4493PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4494 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4495 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4496 spamd_address settings.
4497
2f079f46
PH
4498PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4499 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4500 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4501 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4502 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4503
8c841523
PH
4504PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4505
7766a4f0
PH
4506PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4507 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4508 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4509 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4510 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4511
8b417f2c
PH
4512PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4513 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4514
901f42cb
PH
4515PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4516 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4517 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4518 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4519 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4520 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4521 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4522 for failure.
4523
f9b9210e
PH
4524PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4525 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4526 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4527 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4528 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4529 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4530 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4531 "input=".
4532
54cdb463
PH
4533PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4534
cf00dad6
PH
4535PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4536 driver and ACL definitions.
4537
acb1b346
PH
4538PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4539 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4540
c5ddb310
PH
4541PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4542 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4543 understands it better than I do:
4544
4545 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4546 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4547
4548 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4549 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4550 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4551 => three warnings about OTP not working
4552 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4553
4554 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4555 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4556 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4557 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4558 for each call.)
4559 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4560 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4561
4562 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4563 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4564 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4565
31619da6
PH
4566PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4567 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4568 specified.
4569
bebaf0fc
PH
4570PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4571 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4572 "Linux".
4573
475fe28a
PH
4574PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4575 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4576 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4577
4578 warn !verify = sender
4579 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4580
4581 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4582 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4583
7e8bec7a
PH
4584PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4585
4586 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4587 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4588
4589 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4590 nomenclature these days.)
4591
e4a89c47
PH
4592PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4593 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4594
5ca2a9a1
PH
4595PH/30 In these circumstances:
4596 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4597 . First host does not offer TLS;
4598 . First host accepts first address;
4599 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4600 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4601 . Second host accepts second address.
4602 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4603 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4604 address.
7e8bec7a 4605
c688b954
PH
4606PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4607 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4608 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4609 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4610 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4611
fed77020
PH
4612PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4613 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4614
7fe1560f
PH
4615PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4616 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4617
ebb6e6d5
PH
4618PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4619 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4620 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4621
9c4e8f60
PH
4622PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4623 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4624 overlooked.
4625
4626PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4627
d7174846
PH
4628PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4629 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4630 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4631 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4632 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4633 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4634 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4635
4636 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4637 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4638 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4639 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4640 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4641
4642 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4643 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4644 routed further.
4645
cfe75fc3
PH
4646PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4647 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4648 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4649 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4650 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4651 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4652
be22d70e
PH
4653PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4654
0612b098
PH
4655PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4656 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4657 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4658 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4659 printable escape sequences.
4660
2e0c1448
PH
4661PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4662 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4663 body only.
4664
447d236c
PH
4665PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4666 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4667 are as follows:
4668
4669 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4670 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4671 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4672 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4673 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4674
4675 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4676 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4677 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4678
d20976dc
PH
4679PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4680
f656d135
PH
4681PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4682 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4683 play with."
4684
2e2a30b4
PH
4685PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4686 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4687 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4688 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4689 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4690 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4691 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4692 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4693 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4694 the log output.
4695
9176e9f0
PH
4696PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4697 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4698 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4699 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4700 "make".
4701
7982096b 4702
bbe902f0
PH
4703A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4704----------------------------------------
4705
4706Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4707changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4708needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4709in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4710that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4711release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4712from 4.43.
4713
4714I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
47154.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4716those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4717historical information.
4718
4719
f7b63901 4720Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4721-----------------
4722
5fe762f6
PH
4723 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4724
139059f6 4725 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4726 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4727
7086e875
PH
4728 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4729 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4730 place.
4731
35af9f61
PH
4732 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4733 filter fails to execute.
4734
b668c215
PH
4735 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4736 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4737 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4738 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4739 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4740
a494b1e1
PH
4741 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4742
4743 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4744 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4745 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4746 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4747
c5fcb476
PH
4748 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4749 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4750 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4751 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4752 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4753
69358f02
PH
4754 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4755
5be20824
PH
475610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4757
eb2c0248
PH
475811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4759 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4760 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4761 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4762
2a3eea10
PH
476312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4764 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4765 sender verification.
4766
476713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4768 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4769
23c7ff99
PH
477014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4771
4deaf07d
PH
477215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4773 connection timeout.
4774
926e1192
PH
477516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4776 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4777
650edc6f
PH
477817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4779 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4780
2c7db3f5
PH
478118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4782 information about exactly what failed.
4783
3d235903
PH
478419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4785
7c7ad977
PH
478620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4787 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4788 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4789
981756db
PH
479021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4791 It is now set to "smtps".
4792
d4eb88df
PH
479322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4794 ignore_target_hosts.
4795
479623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4797 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4798 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4799 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4800 "[x.x.x.x]".
4801
7d468ab8
PH
480224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4803 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4804 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4805
480625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4807 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4808 wake it up if nothing else does.
4809
62c0818f
PH
481026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4811 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4812 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4813 end up negative.
4814
26034054
PH
481527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4816 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4817
af66f652
PH
481828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4819
90af77f4
PH
482029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4821 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4822 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4823 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4824 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4825 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4826 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4827 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4828
d8ef3577
PH
482930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4830 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4831 than one IP address.
4832
5cb8cbc6
PH
483331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4834 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4835 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4836 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4837
14702f5b
PH
483832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4839 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4840 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4841 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4842 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4843 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4844
063b1e99
PH
484533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4846 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4847 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4848 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4849
652e1b65
PH
485034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4851 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4852 respected.
4853
6f0c9a4f
PH
485435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4855 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4856 $sender_host_address.
4857
33397d19
PH
485836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4859 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4860 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4861 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4862 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4863 very small.
4864
7bb56e1f
PH
486537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4866
4867 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4868 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4869
ea3bc19b
PH
4870 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4871 just the host names, not the priorities.
4872
4873 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4874 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4875 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4876
ea3bc19b 4877 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4878 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4879
0bcb2a0e
PH
488038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4881 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4882 domain.
4883
2ac0e484
PH
488439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4885
4e1fde53
PH
488640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4887 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4888
de365ded
PH
488941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4890 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4891 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4892
f05da2e8
PH
489342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4894
d6453af2
PH
489543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4896
f7b63901
PH
489744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4898
489945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4900 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4901 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4902 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4903 because the tests only now provoked it.
4904
a444213a
PH
490546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4906 (this can affect the format of dates).
4907
0ec020ea
PH
490847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4909 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4910 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4911 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4912
b1206957
PH
491348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4914
491549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4916 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4917 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4918 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4919
26dd5a95
PH
492050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4921 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4922 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4923
343b2385
PH
492451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4925 autoreply.
4926
1c5466b9
PH
492752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4928 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4929 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4930 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4931 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4932 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4933 is going on).
4934
55ee9ee3
PH
493553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4936 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4937 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4938 the line.
4939
d38f8232
PH
494054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4941 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4942 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4943
4944 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4945 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4946 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4947 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4948 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4949 so I produce this patch..."
4950
3295e65b
PH
4951 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4952 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4953 is not defined.
4954
7102e136
PH
495555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4956 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4957 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4958 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4959 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4960
3ca0ba97
PH
496156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4962
c2bcbe20
PH
496357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4964 long debug lines gets shown.
4965
18ce445d
PH
496658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4967 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4968
1f5b4c3d
PH
496959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4970
4971 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4972 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4973 of $primary_hostname.
4974
b975ba52
PH
497560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4976 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4977 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4978 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4979 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4980 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4981 by change 4.50/55 above.
4982
4983 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4984 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4985 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4986 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4987 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4988 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4989 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4990
499161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4992 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4993 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4994 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4995
17ffcae7
PH
499662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4997 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4998
d95f9fdb
PH
499963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5000 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5001 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5002 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5003 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5004
86b8287f
PH
500564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5006 This has been fixed.
5007
60dc5e56
PH
500865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5009 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5010 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5011 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5012 the caching.)
5013
533244af
PH
501466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5015
a5a28604
PH
501667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5017 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5018 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5019 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5020
7e634d24
PH
502168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5022 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5023
3e11c26b
PH
502469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5025 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5026 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5027
6729cf78
PH
502870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5029 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5030 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5031 message there.
5032
00f00ca5
PH
503371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5034 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5035 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5036
c9bdd01c
PH
503772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5038 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5039 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5040 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5041
d43194df
PH
504273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5043 during host lookups.
5044
fe5b5d0b
PH
504574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5046 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5047
5048 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5049
76a2d7ba
PH
505075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5051 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5052 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5053 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5054 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5055 background.
5056
505776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5058 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5059
04f7d5b9
PH
506077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5061 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5062 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5063
bc60667e
PH
506478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5065
bb6e88ff
PH
506679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5067 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5068 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5069 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5070 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5071 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5072 process earlier.
5073
1e70f85b
PH
507480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5075 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5076 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5077 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5078 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5079
508081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5081 tables).
5082
4e01f9d6
PH
508382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5084
1ee1cef2
PH
508583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5086 "vacation" handling.
5087
6e2b4ccc
PH
508884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5089 OS variants using glibc.
5090
8e669ac1
PH
509185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5092
495ae4b0 5093
bbe902f0
PH
5094----------------------------------------------------
5095See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5096----------------------------------------------------
5097
5098
5099Exim version 4.44
5100-----------------
5101
5102 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5103 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5104 transport
5105
5106 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5107 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5108 place.
5109
5110 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5111 filter fails to execute.
5112
5113 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5114 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5115 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5116 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5117 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5118
5119 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5120 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5121 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5122 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5123
5124 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5125 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5126 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5127 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5128 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5129
5130 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5131
5132 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5133 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5134 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5135 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5136
5137 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5138 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5139 sender verification.
5140
514110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5142 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5143
514411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5145 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5146
514712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5148 ignore_target_hosts.
5149
515013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5151 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5152 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5153 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5154 "[x.x.x.x]".
5155
515614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5157 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5158 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5159
516015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5161 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5162 wake it up if nothing else does.
5163
516416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5165 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5166 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5167 end up negative.
5168
516917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5170 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5171
ea3a6f44 517218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5173
517419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5175 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5176 empty pattern.
5177
517820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5179 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5180 one IP address.
5181
ea3a6f44
NM
518221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5183 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5184 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5185 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5186 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5187 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5188
ea3a6f44
NM
518922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5190 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5191 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5192
519323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5194 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5195 $sender_host_address.
5196
519724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5198
ea3a6f44
NM
519925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5200 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5201 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5202
520326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5204 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5205
ea3a6f44
NM
520627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5207 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5208
ea3a6f44
NM
520928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5210 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5211 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5212 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5213
521429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5215 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5216 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5217
ea3a6f44
NM
521830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5219 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5220 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5221 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5222
ea3a6f44
NM
522331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5224 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5225 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5226
ea3a6f44
NM
522731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5228 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5229
ea3a6f44
NM
523032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5231 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5232 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5233 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5234 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5235 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5236 is going on).
bbe902f0 5237
ea3a6f44
NM
523833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5239 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5240 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5241 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5242 CAN-2005-0021
5243
ea3a6f44
NM
524434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5245 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5246 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5247 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5248 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5249 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5250 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5251
5252 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5253 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5254 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5255 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5256 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5257 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5258 CAN-2005-0021
5259
ea3a6f44
NM
526035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5261 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5262 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5263 CAN-2005-0022
5264
ea3a6f44
NM
526536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5266 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5267 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5268 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5269 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5270
ea3a6f44
NM
527137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5272 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5273 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5274 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5275 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5276
ea3a6f44
NM
527738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5278 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5279 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5280 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5281 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5282
5283
495ae4b0
PH
5284Exim version 4.43
5285-----------------
5286
5287 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5288 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5289 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5290 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5291 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5292 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5293 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5294
5295 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5296 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5297 the delivery.
5298
5299 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5300
5301 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5302
5303 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5304 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5305 to local_scan().
5306
5307 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5308 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5309 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5310 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5311 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5312
5313 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5314 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5315
5316 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5317
5318 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5319
532010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5321 header_sender only.
5322
532311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5324 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5325
532612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5327 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5328 affecting debugging statements).
5329
533013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5331
533214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5333 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5334 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5335 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5336 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5337 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5338 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5339 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5340 after the received time, and all would be well.
5341
534215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5343 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5344 condition in an expansion string.
5345
534616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5347
534817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5349 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5350 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5351 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5352 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5353 job under whatever limits there are.
5354
535518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5356
535719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5358 space).
5359
536020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5361 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5362 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5363 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5364 return path is set.
5365
536621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5367 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5368 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5369 binary data in such strings.
5370
537122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5372
537323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5374 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5375 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5376 failure, which is pointless.
5377
537824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5379
538025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5381
538226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5383 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5384 Sender: header lines.
5385
538627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5387 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5388 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5389
539028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5391 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5392 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5393 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5394 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5395 happens.
5396
539729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5398 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5399 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5400 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5401 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5402
540330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5404 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5405 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5406 1024.
5407
540831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5409 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5410
541132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5412 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5413
541433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5415
541632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5417
541833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5419
542034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5421 syntax error.
5422
542335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5424
542536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5426
542737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5428 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5429 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5430 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5431
543238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5433 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5434
5435
5436Exim version 4.42
5437-----------------
5438
5439 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5440 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5441 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5442 it was not quoted.
5443 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5444 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5445 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5446 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5447 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5448 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5449
5450 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5451 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5452 verification failure".
5453
5454 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5455 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5456 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5457 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5458
5459 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5460 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5461 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5462 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5463 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5464 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5465 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5466 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5467 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5468 treated as a timeout.
5469
5470 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5471 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5472 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5473 not set for Exim filters).
5474
5475 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5476 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5477 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5478
5479 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5480
5481 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5482 try to make them clearer.
5483
5484 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5485 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5486
5487 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5488
5489 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5490
549110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5492 only the Cygwin environment.
5493
549411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5495 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5496 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5497 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5498 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5499
550012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5501 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5502 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5503 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5504 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5505 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5506 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5507
550813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5509 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5510
551114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5512
5513 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5514 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5515 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5516
5517 To: susanne@some.where
5518
5519 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5520 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5521 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5522 of addresses in From: header lines).
5523
5524 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5525 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5526 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5527
5528 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5529 treated as non-personal.
5530
5531 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5532 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5533
553415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5535
553616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5537
553817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5539 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5540 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5541
554218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5543 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5544
554519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5546 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5547 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5548 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5549 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5550 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5551
555220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5553 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5554 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5555 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5556 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5557 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5558 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5559 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5560
5561 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5562
556321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5564 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5565
556622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5567 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5568 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5569
557023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5571 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5572
557324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5574 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5575 rather than long int.
5576
557725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5578
557926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5580
5581
5582Exim version 4.41
5583-----------------
5584
5585 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5586 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5587 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5588 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5589 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5590 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5591
5592
5593Exim version 4.40
5594-----------------
5595
5596 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5597 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5598
5599 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5600 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5601 socklen_t is defined.
5602
5603 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5604 always exist.
5605
5606 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5607 configured.
5608
5609 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5610 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5611 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5612 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5613 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5614
5615 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5616 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5617 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5618 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5619
5620 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5621 of flapping under certain conditions.
5622
5623 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5624 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5625 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5626
5627 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5628
562910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5630
563111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5632 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5633 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5634 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5635
563612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5637 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5638 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5639 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5640 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5641 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5642 preserved with the message after it was received.
5643
564413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5645 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5646 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5647 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5648 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5649 test suite worked just fine.
5650
565114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5652 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5653 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5654
565515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5656 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5657 string.
5658
565916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5660 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5661 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5662 does not fully solve it.
5663
566417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5665 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5666 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5667 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5668 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5669
567018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5671 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5672 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5673
567419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5675 string, for example:
5676
5677 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5678
5679 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5680 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5681 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5682 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5683 the routers could not see them.
5684
568520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5686 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5687
568821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5689 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5690 output).
5691
569222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5693 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5694 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5695 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5696 that needed quoting.
5697
569823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5699 was not being matched caselessly.
5700
570124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5702 backslashes.
5703
570425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5705 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5706 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5707 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5708 when use_sender is false.
5709
571026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5711
571227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5713
571428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5715
571629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5717 the configuration file.
5718
571930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5720 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5721
572231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5723
572432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5725 bytes in the message body.
5726
572733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5728 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5729 delivery.
5730
573134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5732
573335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5734
573536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5736 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5737 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5738 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5739 another IP address.
5740
5741
5742Exim version 4.34
5743-----------------
5744
5745 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5746 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5747
5748 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5749 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5750 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5751 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5752 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5753
5754 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5755 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5756
5757 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5758 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5759 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5760
5761 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5762 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5763 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5764
5765 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5766 for routers.
5767
5768 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5769 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5770 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5771 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5772 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5773 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5774 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5775
5776
5777Exim version 4.33
5778-----------------
5779
5780 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5781 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5782 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5783 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5784 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5785 default (and expected) setting.
5786
5787 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5788 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5789 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5790 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5791
5792 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5793 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5794
5795 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5796 in domain lists.
5797
5798 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5799 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5800 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5801 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5802 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5803 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5804
5805 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5806 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5807 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5808
5809 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5810 part (NOT match_host).
5811
5812 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5813
5814 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5815 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5816 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5817 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5818 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5819 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5820 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5821 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5822 the same named file.
5823
582410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5825 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5826 when Exim is built.
5827
582811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5829 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5830 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5831 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5832 a host name.
5833
583412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5835 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5836 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5837
583813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5839
584014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5841
584215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5843
584416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5845 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5846
584717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5848 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5849 before starting the TLS session.
5850
585118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5852
585319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5854 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5855
585620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5857 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5858 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5859 colon in the middle).
5860
5861
5862Exim version 4.32
5863-----------------
5864
5865 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5866 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5867 multiple configurations are in use.
5868
5869 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5870 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5871 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5872 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5873 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5874 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5875
5876 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5877 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5878
5879 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5880 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5881 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5882
5883 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5884 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5885 occurs.
5886
5887 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5888 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5889
5890 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5891
5892 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5893 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5894
5895 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5896
5897 -prval:sval
5898
5899 is equivalent to
5900
5901 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5902
5903 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5904 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5905 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5906 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5907 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5908
590910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5910 Exim's behaviour:
5911
5912 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5913 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5914 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5915 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5916 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5917 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5918
5919 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5920 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5921 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5922 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5923 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5924 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5925 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5926 string.
5927
5928 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5929 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5930 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5931 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5932 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5933
593411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5935
593612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5937 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5938 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5939
594013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5941
594214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5943 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5944 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5945 information.
5946
594715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5948 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5949
595016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5951 Three changes have been made:
5952
5953 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5954 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5955 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5956 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5957 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5958
5959 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5960 been restored.
5961
5962 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5963 the modified behaviour.
5964
5965
5966Exim version 4.31
5967-----------------
5968
5969 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5970 Larry Rosenman.
5971
5972 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5973 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5974
5975 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5976 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5977 try to track down a specific problem.
5978
5979 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5980 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5981 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5982
5983 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5984 warning.
5985
5986 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5987 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5988 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5989 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5990 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5991 some earlier ones do not.
5992
5993 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5994
5995 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5996 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5997 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5998 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5999 address literals are enabled, of course).
6000
6001 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6002
600310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6004 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6005 by a command such as
6006
6007 exim -f "" ...
6008
6009 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6010
601111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6012
601312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6014 remained set. It is now erased.
6015
601613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6017 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6018
601914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6020 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6021 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6022 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6023 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6024 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6025 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6026 appropriate error code.
6027
602815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6029 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6030 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6031 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6032 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6033 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6034
603516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6036 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6037 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6038
603917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6040 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6041 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6042 terminate the header.
6043
604418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6045 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6046 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6047
604819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6049 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6050 (4.30/29). In particular:
6051
6052 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6053 imposed.
6054
6055 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6056 to write a maildirsize file.
6057
6058 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6059 the transport, the new value overrides.
6060
6061 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6062 count.
6063
606420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6065 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6066 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6067 space or a tab.
6068
606921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6070 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6071 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6072 the fallback hosts.
6073
607422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6075 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6076 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6077
607823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6079 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6080 using a union.
6081
608224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6083 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6084 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6085
608625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6087
608826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6089
609027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6091
609228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6093 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6094 become corrupted.
6095
609629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6097 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6098 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6099 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6100 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6101 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6102 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6103 too great.
6104
610530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6106 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6107 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6108 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6109 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6110 incorrectly.
6111
611231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6113 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6114 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6115 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6116 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6117 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6118 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6119 cached value only when the same options are set.
6120
612132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6122
612333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6124 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6125 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6126 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6127 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6128
612934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6130 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6131 it is clearly obsolete.
6132
613335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6134 transport.
6135
613636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6137 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6138 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6139 times.
6140
614137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6142 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6143 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6144 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6145 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6146
614738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6148 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6149 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6150 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6151
615239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6153
6154 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6155
6156 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6157 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6158 2^31.
6159
616040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6161 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6162 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6163 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6164 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6165 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6166 $localpart_data.
6167
616841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6169 with the -f command-line option.
6170
617142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6172 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6173 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6174 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6175 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6176 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6177
617843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6179 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6180 line.
6181
618244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6183 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6184 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6185 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6186 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6187 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6188 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6189 buffer is too small.
6190
619145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6192 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6193
619446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6195 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6196 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6197 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6198 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6199 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6200 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6201 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6202 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6203
620447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6205 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6206 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6207
620848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6209 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6210 ACL").
6211
621249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6213 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6214 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6215 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6216 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6217
621850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6219 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6220 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6221 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6222 is set.
6223
622451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6225
622652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6227
622853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6229 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6230
623154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6232 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6233 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6234
623555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6236 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6237 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6238 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6239 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6240
624156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6242 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6243 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6244 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6245 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6246 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6247 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6248
624957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6250 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6251 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6252 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6253 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6254 the test of how many are available.
6255
625658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6257 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6258 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6259 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
6260 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6261 new message is started.
6262
626359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6264 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6265
626660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6267 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6268
626961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6270 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6271 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6272 is no long logged.
6273
627462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6275 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6276 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6277 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6278 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6279 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6280 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6281
628263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6283 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6284 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6285 interpreted as octal.
6286
628764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6288 setting.
6289
629065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6291 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6292 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6293 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6294 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6295 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6296
629766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6298 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6299 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6300 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6301
6302 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6303 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6304 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6305 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6306
6307 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6308 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6309 is a bug fix.
6310
6311 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6312 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6313
631467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6315
631668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6317 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6318 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6319 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6320
632169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6322 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6323 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6324 supplied", which is not helpful.
6325
632670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6327 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6328 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6329
633071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6331 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6332 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6333 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6334 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6335 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6336 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6337 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6338
633972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6340 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6341 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6342 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6343 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6344
634573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6346 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6347 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6348 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6349 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6350 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6351
635274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6353 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6354 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6355
635675. Added write_rejectlog option.
6357
635876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6359 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6360 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6361 variables.
6362
636377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6364
636578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6366 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6367 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6368 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6369 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6370 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6371 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6372 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6373
637479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6375 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6376 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6377 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6378 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6379
638080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6381 Haardt.
6382
638381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6384 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6385 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6386 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6387 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6388 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6389 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6390 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6391 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6392
6393
6394Exim version 4.30
6395-----------------
6396
6397 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6398 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6399 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6400
6401 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6402 fixed.
6403
6404 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6405 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6406 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6407
6408 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6409 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6410 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6411 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6412 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6413 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6414
6415 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6416 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6417 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6418 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6419 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6420 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6421 the Exim test suite.
6422
6423 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6424 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6425 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6426 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6427
6428 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6429 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6430 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6431 specify it in this variable.
6432
6433 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6434 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6435 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6436 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6437
6438 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6439 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6440 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6441 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6442
6443 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6444 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6445 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6446 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6447 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6448
6449 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6450
645110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6452 they are logged.
6453
645411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6455 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6456 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6457 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6458 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6459
646012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6461 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6462
646313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6464 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6465 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6466 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6467 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6468
646914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6470 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6471
647215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6473 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6474 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6475
647616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6477 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6478
647917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6480 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6481
648218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6483 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6484 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6485
648619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6487 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6488
648920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6490 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6491 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6492 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6493
649421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6495
649622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6497 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6498 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6499 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6500
650123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6502
650324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6504 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6505
650625. Added .include_if_exists.
6507
650826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6509 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6510 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6511 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6512 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6513 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6514
651527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6516
651728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6518 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6519 this.
6520
652129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6522
652330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6524 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6525
6526 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6527 550 Sender verify failed
6528
6529 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6530 the final line of the response.
6531
653231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6533 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6534 all other user lookups.
6535
653632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6537 delivery time.
6538
653933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6540 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6541 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6542 result into an int without checking.
6543
654434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6545 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6546 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6547
654835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6549 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6550 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6551 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6552
655336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6554 correctly.
6555
655637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6557 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6558
655938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6560 to the empty sender.
6561
656239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6563 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6564 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6565 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6566 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6567 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6568 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6569 panic log.
6570
657140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6572 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6573 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6574 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6575 used.
6576
657741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6578 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6579
658042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6581 timestamps.
6582
658343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6584 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6585
658644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6587
658845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6589 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6590 logs.
6591
659246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6593 as soon as it is encountered.
6594
659547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6596
659748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6598 rewritten to "<>".
6599
660049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6601 recognizes a tab character.
6602
660350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6604 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6605 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6606 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6607
660851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6609
661052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6611 crash.
6612
661353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6614
661554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6616
661755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6618 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6619 2822.
6620
662156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6622 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6623 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6624 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6625 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6626
662757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6628 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6629
663058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6631 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6632 list (.included file names were always shown).
6633
663459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6635 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6636 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6637 root at that time.
6638
663960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6640 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6641
664261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6643
664462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6645
664663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6647
664864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6649 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6650 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6651 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6652 failures to open the logs.
6653
665465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6655 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6656 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6657 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6658 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6659 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6660 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6661
6662
6663Exim version 4.24
6664-----------------
6665
6666 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6667 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6668 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6669 change 4.23/1.
6670
6671 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6672 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6673 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6674
6675 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6676 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6677 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6678
6679 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6680 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6681 causing some misleading effects.
6682
6683 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6684 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6685 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6686
6687 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6688 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6689 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6690 queue-runner function directly.
6691
6692
6693Exim version 4.23
6694-----------------
6695
6696 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6697 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6698
6699 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6700 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6701 was always written to the default place.
6702
6703 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6704 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6705 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6706
6707 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6708
6709 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6710
6711 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6712 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6713 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6714
6715 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6716 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6717 must start.
6718
6719 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6720 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6721 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6722
6723 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6724 command line option is disabled.
6725
6726 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6727 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6728
6729 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6730
6731 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6732
6733 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6734 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6735
673610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6737
673811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6739 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6740 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6741 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6742 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6743 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6744
674512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6746 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6747 timeout.
6748
674913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6750 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6751
675214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6753 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6754
675515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6756 received was valid base64.
6757
675816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6759 name of the variable that was being set.
6760
676117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6762
676318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6764 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6765 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6766 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6767 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6768 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6769
677019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6771
677220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6773 nor realm was specified.
6774
677521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6776 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6777 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6778 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6779
678022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6781 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6782 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6783
678423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6785 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6786 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6787
678824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6789 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6790 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6791 some systems use these upper case variants.
6792
679325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6794 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6795 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6796 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6797
679826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6799
680027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6801 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6802
680328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6804 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6805 expansion variable.
6806
680729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6808
680930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6810 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6811 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6812 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6813
681431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6815 using it.
6816
681732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6818 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6819 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6820
682133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6822 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6823
682434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6825 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6826 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6827 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6828
682935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6830 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6831 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6832
683336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6834
683537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6836 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6837 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6838 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6839 aborted.
6840
684138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6842 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6843 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6844
684539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6846
684740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6848 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6849
685041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6851 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6852
685342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6854 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6855 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6856 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6857 when emails are that large.
6858
6859
6860
6861Exim version 4.22
6862-----------------
6863
6864 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6865 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6866
6867 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6868 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6869 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6870
6871 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6872 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6873 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6874
6875 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6876 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6877 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6878 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6879 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6880
6881 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6882 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6883 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6884 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6885 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6886 ever.
6887
6888 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6889 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6890 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6891 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6892 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6893 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6894 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6895 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6896 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6897 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6898 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6899 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6900 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6901 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6902
6903 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6904 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6905 parameterised it.
6906
6907 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6908 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6909 error should be diagnosed.
6910
6911 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6912 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6913 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6914 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6915 appeared instead of "NULL".
6916
691710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6918 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6919 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6920 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6921 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6922 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6923 proceeds).
6924
6925 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6926 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6927 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6928
6929
6930Exim version 4.21
6931-----------------
6932
6933 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6934 or receiver verification errors.
6935
6936 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6937 name.
6938
6939 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6940 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6941 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6942 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6943
6944 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6945 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6946 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6947 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6948 shouldn't happen again.
6949
6950 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6951 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6952 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6953
6954 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6955 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6956
6957 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6958
6959 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6960 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6961
6962 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6963 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6964 RFC.
6965
696610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6967 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6968 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6969
697011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6971 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6972 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6973 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6974
697512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6976 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6977 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6978 to define what should happen).
6979
698013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6981 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6982 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6983
698414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6985
698615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6987
698816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6989 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6990
4c04137d 699117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6992 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6993 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6994 structure in all cases.
6995
6996 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6997 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6998 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6999 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7000
700118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7002 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7003 domain name.
7004
700519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7006 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7007
700820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7009 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7010
701121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7012 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7013 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7014
701522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7016 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7017 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7018
701923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7020 the book and for uniformity.
7021
702224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7023
702425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7025 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7026 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7027 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7028 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7029 non-existent command as the problem.
7030
703126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7032 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7033 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7034
703527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7036
703728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7038 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7039 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7040
704129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7042 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7043 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7044 timestamps using strftime().
7045
704630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7047 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7048
704932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7050 transport-time rewrites.
7051
705233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7053 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7054 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7055 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7056
705734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7058 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7059
706035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7061 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7062 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7063 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7064 comma and a space.
7065
706636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7067 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7068 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7069 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7070 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7071 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7072 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7073
707437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7075 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7076 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7077 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7078 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7079
708038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7081 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7082 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7083 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7084 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7085 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7086 remaining text gets split now.
7087
708839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7089 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7090 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7091 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7092
709340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7094 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7095 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7096 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7097 $return_path.
7098
709941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7100 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7101 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7102 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7103 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7104 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7105 passed through if needed.
7106
710742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7108 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7109 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7110 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7111 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7112 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7113
711443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7115 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7116 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7117 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7118 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7119
712044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7121 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7122 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7123 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7124 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7125
712645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7127 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7128 noticed.
7129
713046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7131 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7132 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7133 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7134 mayhem of various kinds.
7135
713647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7137 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7138 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7139 the right test for positive values.
7140
714148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7142 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7143 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7144 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7145 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7146 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7147 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7148 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7149 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7150 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7151 envelope.
7152
715349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7154 module.
7155
715650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7157 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7158 forbidding it.
7159
716051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7161 the existing equality matching.
7162
716352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7164 dealing with inode numbers.
7165
716653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7167 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7168 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7169
717054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7171 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7172 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7173 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7174 local_scan().
7175
717655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7177 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7178 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7179 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7180 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7181 relay addresses has also been removed.
7182
718356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7184
718557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7186 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7187 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7188
718958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7190 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7191 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7192 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7193 processing applies to CR:
7194
7195 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7196 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7197
7198 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7199 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7200 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7201 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7202
720359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7204 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7205 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7206
720760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7208 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7209 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7210 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7211 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7212 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7213 arisen.
7214
721561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7216 program routers.
7217
721862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7219 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7220 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7221 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7222 adds:
7223
7224 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7225
7226 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7227
7228 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7229
723063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7231 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7232 not considered personal.
7233
723464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7235
723665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7237
723866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7239
724067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7241 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7242 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7243 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7244 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7245 header lines, and spool format errors.
7246
724768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7248 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7249 for more flexibility.
7250
725169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7252 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7253 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7254
725570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7256 Sabourenkov.
7257
725871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7259 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7260 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7261 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7262 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7263 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7264 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7265 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7266 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7267
726872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7269 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7270 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7271 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7272 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7273 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7274 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7275
727673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7277 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7278 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7279
728074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7281 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7282 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7283 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7284 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7285 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7286 instead of killing the process with assert().
7287
728875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7289 than Unicode encoding.
7290
729176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7292 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7293 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7294 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7295
729677. Added process_log_path.
7297
729878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7299 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7300
730179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7302 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7303
730480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7305 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7306 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7307
730881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7309 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7310 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7311 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7312 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7313 were applied:
7314
7315 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7316 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7317 as invalid.
7318
731982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7320 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7321 they will be used during message reception.
7322
7323
7324Exim version 4.20
7325-----------------
7326
7327The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7328
7329****