dnssec_strict, _lax, _never modifiers for dnsdb lookups
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
9
10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
28 were a direct connection from the outside internet.
29
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30JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
31
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32TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
33 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
34
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35PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
36 not dns_use_dnssec.
37
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38JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
39
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40TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
41 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
42 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
43
8ddef691 44TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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45 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
46 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
47 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
48 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 49 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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51JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
52
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53JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
54 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
55
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56JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
57 failed delivery.
58
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59JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
60
511a6c14 61JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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62
63JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
64 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 65
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66JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
67 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
68
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69TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
70
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71JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
72
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73JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
74 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
75
76 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
77 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
78 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
79
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80TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
81 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
82 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
83 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 84
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85JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
86
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87JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
88 dnslookup router (applying to the forward lookup).
89
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90TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
91 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
92 Schlichting.
35aba663 93
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94JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
95
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100PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
101
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102PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
103 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
104
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105PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
106 by GnuTLS.
107
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108PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
109 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
110 routines.
111
13363eba 112PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 113
66645890 114PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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115 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
116 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
117 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
118 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 119
a3fb9793 120PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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121 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
122 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
123 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 124 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 125 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 126
d27f98fe 127TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 128
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129TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
130
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131TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
132 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
133
ae0e32ee 134TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 135 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 136 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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138TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 139
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140TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
141
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142TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
143 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
144
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145JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
146
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147JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
148
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149PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
150
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151NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
152 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 153
585121e2 154JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 155
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156PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
157 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
158 function.
a5f239e4 159
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160PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
161 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
162
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163JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
164 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
165 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 166
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167JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
168
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169JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
170
ea722490 171JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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172 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
173
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174JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
175 Bugzilla 884.
176
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177JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
178 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
179
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180JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
181 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
182
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183PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
184 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 185 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 186
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187JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
188 authenticators.
189
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190JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
191 for control.
192
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193PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
194
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195PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
196 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
197 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
198 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
199
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200TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
201
202 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
203 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
204 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
205 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
206 the retry rules.
207
208 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
209 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
210 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
211
212 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
213 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
214 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
215 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
216
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217 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
218 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
219 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
220 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
221 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
222 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
223 delivery, as in LMTP.
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225 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
226 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
227
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228TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
229
230 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
231
232 Resent-From: f
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234 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
235 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
236 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
237 username as equal to the username.
238
239 This change corrects that bug.
240
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241GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
242 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
243 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
244
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245TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
246
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247PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
248 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
249 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
250 NULL dereference and crash.
251
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252JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
253
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254PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
255 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
256 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
257
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258SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
259
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260JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
261 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
262 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
263 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
264 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
265 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
266 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
267 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
268 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
269 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
270 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
271
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272PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
273 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
274
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275PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
276 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
277 Bugzilla 880.
278
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279PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
280 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
281 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
282 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
283 an empty string is now equivalent.
284
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285PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
286 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
287 not performing validation itself.
288
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289PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
290 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
291
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292JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
293 Bugzilla 321, 823.
294
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295TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
296
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297PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
298 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
299 other false fix of the same issue.
300 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
301 Bugzilla 1363.
302
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303PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
304 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
305
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306PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
307 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
308 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
309
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310PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
311 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
312 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
313
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314TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
315
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316JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
317
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318TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
319 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
320
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321TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
322 Alexander Miroch.
323
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324TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
325 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
326 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
327 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
328 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 329
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330TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
331 the src/util/ subdirectory.
332
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333TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
334 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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335 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
336
337TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
338 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
339 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
340 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
341
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342TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
343
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344TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
345 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
346 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 347
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348TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
349
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350TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
351 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
352 interaction.
353
354TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
355 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
356
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357TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
358 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
359
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363
364PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
365 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 366 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 367
ea722490 368
b1770b6e 369Exim version 4.80
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371
372PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
373 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
374 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
375
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376NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
377
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378NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
379 improved.
380
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381NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
382
c1e794ba 383PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 384
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385PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
386
387PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
388 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
389
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390PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
391 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
392
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393PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
394 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
395
f1e05cc7 396PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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397 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
398 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 399
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400PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
401
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402PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
403 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
404
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405PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
406
c45dd180 407PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 408
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409PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
410 non-compliant senders.
411 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
412
eae0036b 413NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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414 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
415 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
416
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417PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
418 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
419 in spool file corruption.
420
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421PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
422 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
423 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
424 "Got SSL error 2".
425
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426TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
427 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
428 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
429
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430JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
431 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
432
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433JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
434
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435PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
436 diagnostics.
437 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
438
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439PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
440 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
441 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
442
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443PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
444 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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445 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
446 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 447
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448PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
449 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
450
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451PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
452 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
453 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
454 resolver implementation change.
455
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456PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
457 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
458
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459PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
460
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461PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
462
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463PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
464 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
465
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466PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
467 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
468
9e45c72b 469JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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470 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
471
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472PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
473 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
474 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
475 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 476 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 477
53947857 478PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 479
eae0036b 480PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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481 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
482 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 483
9e45c72b 484JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 485
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486PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
487 read-only, out of scope).
488 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
489
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490PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
491 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
492 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
493 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
494
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495PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
496
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497PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
498 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
499 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
500 real issues in debug logging.
501
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502PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
503 assignment on my part. Fixed.
504
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505PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
506 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
507 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
508
509PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
510 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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511 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
512 problems.
3375e053 513
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514PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
515 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
516
57eb9e91 517PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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518 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
519 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
520 needs to override this, it can.
521
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522PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
523 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
524 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
525
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526PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
527 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
528 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
529 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
530
3ecab157 531PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 532
0599f9cf 533
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534Exim version 4.77
535-----------------
536
537PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
538 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
539
f1a29782
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540TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
541
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542TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
543 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 544
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545TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
546 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
547
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548TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
549 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
550 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
551
552 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
553 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
554 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
555 not safe for signals.
556
557 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
558 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
559 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
560 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
561 exiwhat.
562
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563TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
564
565 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
566 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
567 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
568 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
569 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
570
571 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
572 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
573 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
574 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
575 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
576 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
577
578 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
579 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
580 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
581 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
582
583 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
584 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
585 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
586 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
587
588 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
589 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
590 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
591 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
592 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
593 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
594 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
595 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
596 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
597
598 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
599 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
600 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
601 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
602
603 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
604 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
605 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
606 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
607 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
608 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
609 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
610 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
611 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
612 details in the main documentation.
613
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614TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
615
792e8a19
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616TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
617
5901f0ab
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618TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
619 repository when doing development or release builds.
620
7f2a2a43
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621PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
622 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 623
061b7ebd
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624PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
625 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
626 Bugzilla 97.
627
e12f8c32
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628PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
629
9e949f00 630PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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631 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
632
633PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
634 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 635
555ae6af 636PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
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637 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
638
639PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
640 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 641
6f7fe114
PP
642PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
643 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
644
c566dd90
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645PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
646 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
647 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
648 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 649
d6cc7c78 650PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
651 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
652 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
653
0d0e4455
PP
654PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
655
3399bb60 656PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
657
658PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
659 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
660
0ca0cf52 661
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662Exim version 4.76
663-----------------
664
665PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
666
754a0503
PP
667PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
668 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
669
c0c7b2da
PP
670PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
671
e97d1f08
PP
672PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
673
084c1d8c
PP
674PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
675 Bugzilla 1098.
676
4e7ee012
PP
677PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
678 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 679
c8d52a00
PP
680TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
681 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
682
54e7ce4a
PP
683PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
684 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
685
5ee6f336
PP
686PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
687 Bugzilla 1104.
688
c8d52a00 689TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
690 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
691
692TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
693 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
694 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
695 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
696
697PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
698 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 699
10906672 700
aa097c4c
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701Exim version 4.75
702-----------------
703
4c9ef03a 704NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
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705 Bugzilla 1073
706
7f3d9eff
TF
707TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
708 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
709 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
710
159f52d2
TF
711TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
712 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
713
0cc9542a
PP
714PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
715 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
716 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
717
f7274286
PP
718PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
719 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
720
7b797365
PP
721PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
722 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
723
caacae52
NM
724NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
725 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
726
09dcaba9
NM
727NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
728 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
729
bc19a55b
PP
730PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
731 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 732
bd4c9759
NM
733NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
734 Fixes bug 943.
735
b72aab72
PP
736PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
737 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
738
2fe76745
PP
739PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
740 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
741
76aa570c
PP
742PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
743 SQL string expansion failure details.
744 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
745
f1e5fef5
PP
746PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
747 Patch from Simon Arlott.
748
4d805ee9
PP
749PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
750 extern declarations in function scope.
751 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
752
cd59ab18
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753PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
754 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
755 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
756 a kernel bug).
757
332f5cf3
PP
758PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
759 Patch from Mark Zealey.
760
29cfeb94
PP
761PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
762 Patch from Mark Zealey.
763
660242ad
PP
764PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
765 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
766
bc4bc4c5
PP
767PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
768 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
769
2e64baa9
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770NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
771 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
772 Dennis Davis.
773
bddd7526
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774PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
775
6bac1a9a
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776PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
777
552193f0
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778NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
779 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 780
1b587e48
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781TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
782 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
783
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785Exim version 4.74
786-----------------
787
788TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
789 consequences so log it to the panic log.
790
c0ea85ab
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791TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
792 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
793
0761d44e
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794TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
795
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796DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
797 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
798 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
799
800PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
801 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
802 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
803
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804PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
805 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
806 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
807 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
808
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809PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
810 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
811 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
812 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
813
1670ef10
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814PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
815 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
816 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
817 arbitrary files.
818
c0886197
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819PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
820 (Wolfgang Breyha)
821
b7487bce
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822PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
823 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
824 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
825 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
826 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
827
8c07b69f 828
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831
832PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
833 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
834 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
835
6901c596
PP
836PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
837 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
838
a8c8d6b5
JJ
839JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
840
77bb000f
PP
841PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
842
a29e5231
PP
843PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
844
ec5a0394 845PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 846
55c75993
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847PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
848
453a6645 849PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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850 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
851 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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852 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
853
8544e77a
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854PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
855 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
856 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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857 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
858 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 859
83e029d5
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860PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
861
ed7f7860
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862PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
863
7d9f747b
PP
864PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
865
4b2241d2
PP
866PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
867
10385c15
PP
868PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
869
dbc4b90d
PP
870PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
871
532be449
PP
872PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
873
6a8de854 874PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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875 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
876 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 877
5dc43717
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878JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
879
880JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
881 "exim" to be used
55c75993 882
3346ab01
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883PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
884 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
885
491fab4c
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886PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
887 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
888 Notification from John Horne.
889
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890PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
891 compatible.
892
893PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
894 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
895 it normally works.
896
7f36d675
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897DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
898 access.
899
c1d94452
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900DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
901 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
902 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
903
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904DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
905 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
906 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
907 configuration file.
908
cd25e41d
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909DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
910 option (effectively making it always true).
911
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912DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
913 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
914
fa32850b
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915DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
916 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
917
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918PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
919 run-time user, instead of root.
920
43236f35 921PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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922 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
923
fb08281f
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924DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
925 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
926 arguments.
3346ab01 927
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928DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
929 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
930 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
931
90b6341f
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932DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
933
57730b52
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934NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
935
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937Exim version 4.72
938-----------------
939
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940JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
941 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
942 typos
465e92cf 943
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944JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
945 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
946 (Finput)
edae0343 947
9bd3e22c
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948NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
949 Patch from Alain Williams
950
bb576ff7
NM
951NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
952
5a1a5845
NM
953NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
954 Patch from Andreas Metzler
955
981a9fad
NM
956NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
957 Patch from Kirill Miazine
958
7fc497ee
NM
959NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
960
1a41defa
JJ
961JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
962
a466095c 963NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 964 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 965
94a6bd0b
NM
966TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
967
968TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
969
970MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
971 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
972 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
973
c1b141a8
NM
974NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
975 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 976
b26eacf1 977NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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978 Patch by Simon Arlott
979
179c5980 980PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 981 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 982
9bd3e22c 983
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984Exim version 4.71
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986
7d9f747b 987TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 988
f013fb92
NM
989NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
990
0eb8eedd
NM
991NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
992
663ee6d9
NM
993NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
994
177ebd9b
NM
995NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
996
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998Exim version 4.70
999-----------------
1000
cdd3bb85 1001TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1002 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1003
1004TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1005 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1006 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1007
1008TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1009 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1010 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1011
1012TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1013 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1014
210f147e
NM
1015NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1016 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1017 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1018 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1019
deafd5b3
NM
1020NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1021 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1022 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1023
089793a4
TF
1024TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1025
5f16ca82
TF
1026TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1027
dae9d94e 1028NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1029 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1030
7d9f747b 1031NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1032
06864c44
TF
1033TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1034 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1035 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1036 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1037
65a7d8c3 1038NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1039 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1040
23510047 1041TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1042
7d9f747b 1043NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1044
7d8eec3a 1045NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1046 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1047
89dec7b6
TF
1048TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1049 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1050
a99de90c
TF
1051TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1052 that they are available at delivery time.
1053
e2803e40
TF
1054TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1055
7199e1ee
TF
1056TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1057 incoming_port log selectors.
1058
e276e04b
TF
1059TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1060 setting expands to an empty string.
1061
ce552449 1062NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1063 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1064
e765a0f1 1065NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1066 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1067
4f054c63 1068NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1069 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1070
7d9f747b
PP
1071NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1072 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1073
7d9f747b
PP
1074NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1075 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1076
b52bc06e 1077NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1078 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1079
447de4b0
NM
1080NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1081
4c69d561 1082NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1083 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1084
d5c39246 1085NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1086 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1087
0b23848a
TK
1088TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1089
8f3414a1 1090NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1091 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1092
fb6f955d
NM
1093NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1094
1095NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1096
7d9f747b
PP
1097NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1098 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1099
7d9f747b
PP
1100NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1101 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1102
7d9f747b
PP
1103NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1104 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1105
7d9f747b
PP
1106NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1107 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1108
7d9f747b
PP
1109NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1110 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1111
7d9f747b
PP
1112NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1113 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1114
7d9f747b
PP
1115NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1116 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1117
7d9f747b 1118NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1119 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1120
7d9f747b 1121NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1122
7d9f747b
PP
1123NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1124 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1125
7d9f747b 1126NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1127
7d9f747b 1128NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1129
7d9f747b 1130NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1131
7d9f747b 1132NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1133
17792b53 1134NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1135 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1136
7d9f747b
PP
1137NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1138 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1139
91576cec 1140NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1141 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1142
7d9f747b
PP
1143NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1144 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1145
7d9f747b 1146NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1147
7d9f747b 1148NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1149
7d9f747b 1150NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1151
7d9f747b 1152NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1153
deafd5b3 1154
47db1125
NM
1155Exim version 4.69
1156-----------------
1157
4b3504d0
TK
1158TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1159 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1160 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1161
1162 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1163 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1164 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1165 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1166 build errors in sieve.c.
1167
81ea09ca
NM
1168NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1169 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1170 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1171
f13cddcb
SC
1172SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1173
7d9f747b 1174NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1175
7d9f747b 1176NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1177
7d9f747b 1178NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1179
1180
eb4c0de6
PH
1181Exim version 4.68
1182-----------------
1183
1184PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1185
6a3bceb1
PH
1186PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1187 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1188 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1189 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1190 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1191 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1192 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1193 for iplsearch lookups.
1194
1195 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1196 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1197 previously such lookups could never work.
1198
1199 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1200 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1201 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1202
2e30fa9d
TK
1203TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1204 version.
1205
0806a9c5
MH
1206MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1207 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1208 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1209 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1210 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1211 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1212
ae276964
TK
1213TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1214 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1215
0f2cbd1b
MH
1216MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1217 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1218 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1219 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1220 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1221 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1222
2b85bce7
PH
1223PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1224 local_scan API.
1225
93655c46
PH
1226PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1227
6c512171
PH
1228PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1229 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1230 encrypted.
1231
1232PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1233 by clients under certain conditions.
1234
aa6dc513
PH
1235PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1236 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1237
a96603a0
PH
1238PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1239
8f240103
PH
1240PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1241 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1242
1243PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1244
d677b2f2
PH
1245PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1246
d52120f2
PH
1247PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1248
64f2600a
PH
1249PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1250 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1251
8669f003
PH
1252PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1253
a4dc33a8
PH
1254PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1255 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1256
d6a60c0f
PH
1257PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1258
8f128379
PH
1259PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1260
8932dffe
PH
1261PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1262 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1263 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1264 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1265
ddea74fa 1266PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1267 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1268 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1269
ddea74fa 1270PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1271 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1272
ddea74fa
PH
1273PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1274
ce9f225c
PH
1275PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1276
19897d52
PH
1277PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1278
bc64a74d
PH
1279PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1280 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1281 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1282
eb4c0de6 1283
b4ed4da0
PH
1284Exim version 4.67
1285-----------------
1286
22ad45c9
MH
1287MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1288 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1289 Jan Srzednicki.
1290
b4ed4da0
PH
1291PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1292 issue a MAIL command.
1293
431b7361
PH
1294PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1295
1296 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1297
1298 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1299 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1300 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1301 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1302 item. This has been fixed.
1303
1304PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1305 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1306
83da1223
PH
1307PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1308 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1309
54fc8428
PH
1310PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1311 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1312 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1313
34c5e8dd
SC
1314SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1315
bbe15da8
PH
1316PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1317 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1318 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1319 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1320 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1321
0e8a9471
MH
1322MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1323 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1324 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1325
f0872424
PH
1326PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1327 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1328 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1329 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1330
b01dd148
PH
1331PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1332
6bf342e1
PH
1333PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1334
273f34d0
PH
1335PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1336 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1337 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1338 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1339 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1340
cf8b11a5
PH
1341PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1342
41c7c167
PH
1343PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1344 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1345 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1346 values).
1347
9c57cbc0
PH
1348PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1349
f3f065bb
PH
1350PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1351
047bdd8c
PH
1352PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1353
0ce9abe6
PH
1354PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1355
0e22dfd1
PH
1356PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1357
4c590bd1
PH
1358PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1359 no_callout_flush is set.
1360
09945f1e
PH
1361PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1362 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1363 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1364 fixed.
1365
c51b8e75
PH
1366PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1367
e28326d8
PH
1368PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1369 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1370 other ACL rejections are.
1371
75b1493f
PH
1372PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1373 with slight modification.
1374
7c5214ec
PH
1375PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1376 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1377
4311097e
PH
1378PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1379 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1380 connection.
1381
29f89cad
PH
1382PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1383 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1384
5e687460
SC
1385SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1386
c3611384
PH
1387PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1388 expansion side effects.
1389
5a11a7b4
PH
1390PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1391 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1392 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1393 be the same.
1394
0e20aff9
MH
1395MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1396 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1397 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1398
ca86f471
PH
1399PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1400 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1401 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1402 were accidentally chopped off.
1403
a14e5636
PH
1404PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1405 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1406 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1407 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1408 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1409 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1410 pipelining has not been advertised.
1411
ec95d1a6
PH
1412PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1413
42855d71
PH
1414PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1415 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1416 This has been fixed.
1417
57c2c631
PH
1418PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1419 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1420 reported on Solaris.
1421
58c01c94
PH
1422PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1423 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1424 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1425 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1426 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1427 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1428 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1429
dee5a20a
PH
1430PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1431 cpus.
1432
d2ee6114
PH
1433PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1434
b2d5182b
PH
1435PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1436
79749a79
PH
1437PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1438 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1439 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1440 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1441 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1442 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1443
c456d9bb
PH
1444PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1445 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1446 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1447 host_all_ignored option.
1448
cd9868ec
PH
1449PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1450 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1451 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1452 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1453 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1454 is what is supposed to happen).
1455
ebeaf996
PH
1456PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1457 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1458 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1459 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1460 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1461 uses the Exim user.
1462
2679d413
PH
1463PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1464 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1465 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1466 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1467 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1468 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1469 users.
1470
84024b72
PH
1471PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1472
8005d38e
SC
1473SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1474 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1475 (Jez Hancock).
1476 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1477 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1478
3298c6c6
SC
1479SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1480
a43a27c5
PH
1481PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1482
58eb016e 1483PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
1484 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1485 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1486 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1487 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1488 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1489 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1490 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1491 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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PH
1492 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1493 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1494
b43a74ea
PH
1495PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1496 advertised in response to EHLO.
1497
b4ed4da0 1498
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1499Exim version 4.66
1500-----------------
1501
1502PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1503 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1504
1505 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1506 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1507
1508 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1509 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1510 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1511
1512 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1513 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1514 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1515 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1516 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1517
1518
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1519Exim version 4.65
1520-----------------
1521
1522TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1523 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1524 versions. (#438)
1525
d6066548
MH
1526MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1527 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1528 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1529
4362ff0d
PH
1530PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1531 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1532 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1533 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1534 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1535 rather than extend the field.
1536
93cfa765 1537
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1538Exim version 4.64
1539-----------------
aa41d2de 1540
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TK
1541TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1542 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1543 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1544 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1545 these files.
1546
1547TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1548 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1549 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1550
1551TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1552 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1553 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
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1554
1555TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1556 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1557 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1558 in the field name.
1559
2b1c6e3a
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1560PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1561 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1562 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1563 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1564 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1565 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1566 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1567 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1568 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1569 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1570 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1571
1f872c80
PH
1572PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1573 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1574
1575PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1576 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1577 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1578 ignores EPIPE as well.
1579
d203e649
PH
1580PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1581 (quoted-printable decoding).
1582
cc2ed8f7 1583PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1584 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1585
ddfcd446
PH
1586PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1587
d45b1de8
PH
1588PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1589
1590PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1591
38a0a95f 1592PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1593 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1594
a2405d83
JJ
1595JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1596 in 4.64-PH/09.
1597
1598JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1599 miscellaneous code fixes
1600
6ea85e9a
PH
1601PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1602 rejections.
1603
26da7e20
PH
1604PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1605 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1606 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1607 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1608 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1609 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1610 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1611 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1612
14aa5a05 1613PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1614 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1615 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1616 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1617 function.
1618 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1619 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1620 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1621 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1622 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1623 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1624 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1625 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1626 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1627
ff75a1f7
PH
1628PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1629 decoding.
1630
e6f6568e
PH
1631PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1632 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1633 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1634 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1635 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1636 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1637 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1638 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1639
d6f6e0dc
PH
1640PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1641 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1642 list.
1643
322050c2
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1644PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1645 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1646 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1647 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1648 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1649 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1650 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1651 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1652 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1653 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1654 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1655 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1656 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1657
08955dd3
PH
1658PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1659 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1660 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1661 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1662 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1663 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1664 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1665
1eccaa59
PH
1666PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1667 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1668 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1669 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1670 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1671 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1672 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1673 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1674 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1675 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1676
602e59e5
PH
1677PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1678 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1679 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1680 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1681 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1682
411ef850
PH
1683PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1684 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1685 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1686 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1687 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1688 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1689 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1690
7befa435
PH
1691PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1692 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1693 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1694 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1695 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1696 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1697 been verified.
1698
48da4259 1699PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1700 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1701 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1702 and authorization.)
1703
48da4259
PH
1704PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1705 if any retry times were supplied.
1706
d1d5595c
PH
1707PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1708 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1709 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1710
0ef732d9
PH
1711PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1712
328895cc
PH
1713PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1714
fd700877
PH
1715PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1716 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1717 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1718 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1719 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1720 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1721
8dce1a6f
PH
1722PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1723 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1724
17af4a17
PH
1725PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1726 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1727 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1728
1729PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1730 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1731 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1732 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1733 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1734 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1735 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1736 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1737 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1738
1739 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1740 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1741 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1742 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1743 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1744 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1745 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1746 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1747 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1748
1749 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1750 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1751 hammering the server.
1752
c1114884
PH
1753PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1754 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1755
7a0743eb
PH
1756PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1757
0d85fa3f
PH
1758PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1759 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1760 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1761
1bf43b78
PH
1762PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1763 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1764 one case where this was not true.
1765
520de300
PH
1766PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1767 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1768 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1769 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1770 fails.
1771
48c7f9e2
PH
1772PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1773 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1774 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1775 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1776 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1777 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1778 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1779 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1780 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1781 smtp transport.
1782
99ea1c86
PH
1783PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1784 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1785 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1786 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1787
a2042e78
PH
1788PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1789 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1790
4fbcfc2e
PH
1791PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1792 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1793 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1794
aa41d2de
PH
1795PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1796
af561417
PH
1797PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1798
3cc66b45
PH
1799PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1800
194cc0e4
PH
1801PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1802 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1803 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1804 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1805
a401ddaa
PH
1806PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1807 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1808
4e88a19f
PH
1809PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1810 be meaningful with "accept".
1811
d7d7b289
SC
1812SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1813 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1814
1815SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1816 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1817 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1818
1819SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1820 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1821 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1822 there is data to show.
1823 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1824
1825SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1826 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1827 as well as the number of messages.
1828
1829SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1830 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1831 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1832
1833SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1834 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1835 have a flag are now skipped.
1836
1837SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1838 Added the -emptyok flag.
1839
1840SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1841 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1842
0ea2a468
JJ
1843JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1844 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1845 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1846
1847JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1848 match 4.64-PH/13
1849
1850JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1851 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1852
1853JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1854
1855JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1856 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1857
8a10f5a4
PH
1858PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1859
30e18802
PH
1860PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1861 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1862 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1863 contravention of the specifications.
1864
55728a4f
PH
1865PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1866 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1867 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1868
d7837193
PH
1869PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1870 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1871 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1872
87054a31
PH
1873PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1874
ea2c01d2
MH
1875MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1876 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1877 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1878 some point in the past.
1879
e4fa6968
PH
1880PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1881 transport during callout processing was broken.
1882
56f5d9bd
PH
1883PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1884 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1885
922e1c28
PH
1886PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1887 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1888
21eb6e72
PH
1889PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1890 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1891
a0540757
PH
1892PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1893
944e9e9c 1894
478be7b0
SC
1895Exim version 4.63
1896-----------------
1897
1898SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1899 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1900
1901SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1902 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1903 there is data to show.
1904 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1905
1906SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1907 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1908
2b965a65
TF
1909TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1910 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1911
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1912TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1913 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1914
c59f5781
TF
1915TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1916 submissions from trusted users.
1917
90fc3069
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1918TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1919 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1920
6083aca0
TF
1921TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1922 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1923 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1924 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1925 there is now a framework to start from.
1926
765b530f
PH
1927PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1928 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1929 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1930
4e167a8c
PH
1931PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1932
4608d683
PH
1933PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1934
b8dc3e4a
PH
1935PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1936
5418e93b
PH
1937PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1938 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1939 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1940
b4a9bda2
PH
1941PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1942 libradius.
1943
45b91596
PH
1944PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1945 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1946 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1947
5547e2c5
PH
1948PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1949 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1950 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1951 its arguments.
1952
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1953PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1954 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1955 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1956 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1957 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1958
25257489
PH
1959PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1960 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1961
c816d124
PH
1962PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1963
a9ccd69a
PH
1964PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1965 operations in malware.c.
1966
75fa1910
PH
1967PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1968 signatures.
1969
a7d7aa58
PH
1970PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1971 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1972 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1973 all.
1974
42119b09
PH
1975PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1976 statements to "add_header".
1977
41609df5
PH
1978PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1979 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1980
a5bd321b
PH
1981PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1982 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1983 latter.
1984
e85a7ad5 1985PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1986 so that it is now:
1987
e85a7ad5
PH
1988 ${if or { \
1989 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1990 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1991 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1992 }{no}{yes}}
1993
e85a7ad5
PH
1994 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1995 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1996
d8fe1c03
PH
1997PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1998 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1999
16282d2b
PH
2000PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2001 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2002 any possible encoding problems.
2003
35d40a98
PH
2004PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2005 but not after initializing Perl.
2006
034d99ab
PH
2007PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2008 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2009 apparently, which is not desirable.
2010
6ec97b1b
PH
2011PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2012 queries.
2013
e22ca4ac
JJ
2014JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2015 --not options
2016
2017JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2018
33d73e3b
PH
2019PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2020 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2021 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2022 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2023
9ecb03f3
PH
2024PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2025 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2026 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2027
084efe8d
PH
2028PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2029 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2030 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2031 0.12.
2032
366fc9f0
PH
2033PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2034 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2035 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2036 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2037 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2038
c59f5781 2039
c887c79e
TF
2040Exim version 4.62
2041-----------------
2042
2043TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2044 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2045
1cce3af8
PH
2046PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2047 patch).
2048
afb3eaaf
PH
2049PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2050 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2051 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2052 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2053 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2054 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2055 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2056 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2057 451 error is used.
2058
e173618b
PH
2059PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2060
dd16e114
PH
2061PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2062 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2063 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2064
f7fd3850
PH
2065PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2066 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2067 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2068 odd errors.
2069
d87df92c
PH
2070PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2071 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2072
7e9f683d
PH
2073PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2074 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2075 option (which defaults to 0600).
2076
bfad5236
PH
2077PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2078
01c490df
PH
2079PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2080 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2081 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2082 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2083 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2084 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2085 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2086
d6629cdc
PH
2087PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2088
1cce3af8 2089
214e2000
PH
2090Exim version 4.61
2091-----------------
2092
2093PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2094 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2095 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2096 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2097 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2098 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2099 addresses as local.
2100
f9daeae0
PH
2101PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2102 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2103
7e66e54d
PH
2104PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2105
c8ea1597
PH
2106PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2107 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2108 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2109 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2110 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2111 grumble.
2112
911f6fde
PH
2113PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2114 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2115
47ca6d6c
PH
2116PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2117 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2118 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2119 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2120 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2121
ed0e9820
PH
2122PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2123 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2124 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2125 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2126
eff37e47
PH
2127PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2128 be the same on different OS.
2129
1921d2ea
PH
2130PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2131 testing.
2132
b3f69ca8
JJ
2133JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2134 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2135
2136JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2137 in 4.61-PH/06
2138
424a1c63
PH
2139PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2140 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2141 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2142 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2143 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2144 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2145 bounce message.
2146
7a100415
PH
2147PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2148 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2149 when Exim was called.
2150
19b9dc85
PH
2151PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2152 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2153
309bd837
PH
2154PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2155 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2156 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2157 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2158
59e82a2a
PH
2159PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2160 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2161 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2162 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2163 changes:
2164
2165 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2166 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2167 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2168
2169 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2170 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2171 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2172
9edc04ce
PH
2173PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2174 feature).
2175
1349e1e5
PH
2176PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2177 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2178 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2179 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2180 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2181 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2182 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2183 values from the SRV records were lost.
2184
ea49d0e1
PH
2185PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2186 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2187 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2188
064a94c9
PH
2189PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2190 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2191 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2192
727071f8
PH
2193PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2194 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2195 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2196 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2197 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2198 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2199 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2200 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2201 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2202 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2203
f78eb7c6
PH
2204PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2205 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2206 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2207
21c28500
PH
2208PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2209 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2210
2211PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2212 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2213 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2214 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2215 is given.
2216
1688f43b
PH
2217PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2218 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2219 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2220
2221PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2222 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2223 PH/23 above applies.
2224
9675b384
PH
2225PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2226 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2227 (for which there is an explicit test).
2228
6a3f1455
PH
2229PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2230
dac79d3e
PH
2231PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2232 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2233 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2234 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2235 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2236
5977a0b3
PH
2237PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2238 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2239 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2240 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2241
c91535f3
PH
2242PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2243 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2244 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2245
0d46a8c8
PH
2246PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2247
278c6e6c
PH
2248PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2249
2cbb4081
PH
2250PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2251 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2252 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2253
3eef829e
PH
2254PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2255 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2256 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2257 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2258 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2259
1ab95fa6
PH
2260PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2261 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2262 the message gets confusing).
2263
230205fc
PH
2264PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2265 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2266 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2267 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2268
75e0e026
PH
2269PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2270 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2271 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2272 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2273 same order.
2274
2275PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2276 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2277 the different processes.
2278
145396a6
PH
2279PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2280
3cd34f13
PH
2281PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2282
11121d3d
JJ
2283JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2284 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2285
2286JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2287 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2288
2289JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2290 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2291 messages matching specified criteria.
2292
8def5aaf
PH
2293PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2294
929ba01c
PH
2295PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2296 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2297
2632889e
PH
2298PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2299 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2300 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2301 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2302 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2303 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2304 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2305 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2306 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2307 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2308
944a9c55
PH
2309PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2310 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2311 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2312
4a23603b
PH
2313PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2314
4730f942
PH
2315PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2316 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2317 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2318 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2319 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2320 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2321 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2322 the variable.
2323
30dba1e6
PH
2324PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2325 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2326
382afc6b
PH
2327PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2328
a86229cf
PH
2329PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2330
50c99ba6
PH
2331PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2332
d35e429d
PH
2333PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2334 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2335 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2336 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2337 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2338 size of the count of files.
2339
f90d018c
PH
2340PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2341
75def545
PH
2342PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2343 used in LMTP mode:
2344
2345 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2346 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2347 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2348 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2349
2350 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2351 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2352 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2353
2354PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2355 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2356 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2357 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2358 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2359
c46782ef
PH
2360PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2361 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2362
71fafd95
PH
2363PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2364 will now be deprecated.
2365
2c5db4fd
PH
2366PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2367
9cf6b11a
JJ
2368JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2369 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2370 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2371
2372JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2373 with very large, slow to parse queues
2374
2375JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2376
2377JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2378
898d150f
PH
2379PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2380 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2381 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2382 SMTP output lines.
2383
46218253
PH
2384PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2385 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2386 Sieve code now uses this.
2387
e97957bc
PH
2388PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2389 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2390
81e509d7
PH
2391PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2392 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2393
3d240ff7
PH
2394PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2395
b37c4101
PH
2396PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2397 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2398 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2399 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2400 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2401
79378e0f
PH
2402PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2403 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2404 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2405 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2406
e49c7bb4
PH
2407PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2408
d114ec46
PH
2409PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2410
f3d7df6c
PH
2411PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2412 is preferred over IPv4.
2413
715ab376
PH
2414PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2415 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2416 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2417 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2418 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2419 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2420 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2421
6b31b150
PH
2422PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2423 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2424 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2425
2426PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2427
d515a917
PH
2428PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2429 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2430 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2431 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2432 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2433 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2434 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2435 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2436 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2437 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2438 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2439
9b8fadde
PH
2440PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2441 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2442 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2443
214e2000 2444
5de37277
PH
2445Exim version 4.60
2446-----------------
2447
cc38ddbf
PH
2448PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2449
2450 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2451 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2452
2453 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2454 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2455 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2456
72fdd6ae
PH
2457PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2458
2459 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2460 not a single digit.
2461
2462 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2463 string.
2464
2465 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2466 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2467 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2468 silly things.
2469
2470 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2471 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2472
2473 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2474 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2475
cb741023
PH
2476PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2477 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2478 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2479
f174f16e
PH
2480PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2481 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2482
c25242d7
PH
2483PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2484 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2485
2486 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2487
2488 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2489 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2490 this:
2491
2492 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2493
82c19f95
PH
2494PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2495 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2496 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2497 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2498 identical. For example:
2499
2500 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2501
2502 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2503 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2504 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2505
d7ffbc12
PH
2506PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2507 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2508 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2509 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2510
9f526266
PH
2511PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2512 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2513 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2514 message.
2515
87fcc8b9
PH
2516PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2517
2518 o fixes some comments
2519 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2520 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2521 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2522 and documents the missing references header update
2523
2524 and most important:
2525
2526 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2527 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2528 result)
2529
456682f5
PH
2530PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2531 Electronic Mail") by including:
2532
2533 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2534
2535 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2536 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2537 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2538 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2539 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2540
2541 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2542
2543 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2544
2545 The auto-replied keyword:
2546
2547 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2548 message by an automatic process,
2549
2550 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2551
2552 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2553 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2554
2555 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2556 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2557 other messages.
2558
3e46c1aa
PH
2559PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2560 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2561
49826d12
PH
2562PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2563
eba0c039
PH
2564PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2565 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2566 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2567
a0d6ba8a
PH
2568PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2569 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2570 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2571
f0917727
PH
2572PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2573 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2574 and treats the condition as false.
2575
096fee00
PH
2576PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2577
024bd3c2
PH
2578PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2579 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2580 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2581 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2582 not changing the active code.
2583
2584 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2585 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2586
2587 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2588 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2589
df199fec
PH
2590PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2591 (Bugzilla #53).
2592
d27f1df3
PH
2593PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2594 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2595 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2596 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2597 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2598 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2599 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2600 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2601 the text comparison.
2602
96776534
PH
2603PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2604 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2605 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2606 The same fix has been applied.
2607
5de37277 2608
9a799bc0
PH
2609Exim version 4.54
2610-----------------
2611
2612PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2613 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2614 It now does.
2615
99a4b039
PH
2616PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2617 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2618
2619PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2620
4b233853
PH
2621PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2622 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2623 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2624 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2625 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2626
8857ccfd
PH
2627TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2628 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2629 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2630 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2631 or /domain=).
2632
433a2980
PH
2633PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2634 testing suite.
2635
3e46c1aa 2636
9a799bc0 2637
e3a311ba
TK
2638Exim version 4.53
2639-----------------
2640
2641TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2642 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2643
13b685f9
PH
2644PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2645
395ff96d
PH
2646PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2647
5b68f6e4
PH
2648PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2649 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2650 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2651
1ab52c69
PH
2652PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2653 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2654 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2655
b07e6aa3
PH
2656PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2657 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2658 operating systems.
2659
254e032f
PH
2660PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2661 ${stat: expansion item.
2662
3af76a81
PH
2663PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2664 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2665
2548ba04
PH
2666PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2667 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2668 file for comments.
2669
b6c6011d
PH
2670PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2671
cf39cf57
PH
2672PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2673 setting.
2674
f1513293
PH
2675PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2676 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2677
727549a4
PH
2678TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2679
af46795e
PH
2680PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2681 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2682 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2683 the end of the subprocess.
2684
d7b47fd0
PH
2685PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2686 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2687 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2688 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2689 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2690
ee744174
JJ
2691JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2692
b582ab87
PH
2693TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2694
41a13e0a
PH
2695PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2696 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2697
f625cc5a
PH
2698PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2699
2700PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2701
21f7af35
PH
2702PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2703 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2704 HP-UX compiler.
2705
31480e42
PH
2706PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2707
2d280592
PH
2708PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2709 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2710 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2711
7cd1141b
PH
2712PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2713 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2714
2715PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2716 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2717
750af86e
PH
2718PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2719 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2720
2721 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2722 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2723
2724 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2725 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2726 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2727 contributed by a Radius user.
2728
2729PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2730 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2731
4304270b
TK
2732TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2733 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2734
750af86e
PH
2735PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2736 available.
2737
64ffc24f
PH
2738PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2739 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2740 received.
2741
5dd9625b
PH
2742PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2743 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2744 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2745 header lines when this was not necessary.
2746
5591031b
PH
2747PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2748
ba18e66a
PH
2749PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2750 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2751 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2752 exists".
2753
9cec981f
PH
2754PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2755 -bV or -d is used.
2756
aa2b5c79
PH
2757PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2758 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2759 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2760 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2761
48a53b7f
PH
2762PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2763
1c59d63b
PH
2764PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2765
671012da
TK
2766TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2767
1509d3a8
PH
2768PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2769
2770PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2771 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2772 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2773 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2774 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2775 settings.
2776
2777PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2778
2fe1a124
PH
2779PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2780 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2781 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2782 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2783 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2784 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2785 which is clearly wrong.
2786
8800895a
PH
2787PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2788
ccfdb010
PH
2789PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2790 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2791 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2792 subsequently added.
2793
1130bfb0
PH
2794PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2795 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2796
ebcb507f
PH
2797PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2798
c35e155c
PH
2799PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2800 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2801
95d1f782
PH
2802PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2803 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2804
fd6de02e
PH
2805PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2806 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2807
58de37c5
PH
2808PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2809 recipients, not senders.
2810
261cf466
TF
2811TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2812 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2813
3ee512ff
PH
2814PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2815
e08c430f
PH
2816PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2817
bef5a11f
PH
2818PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2819 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2820 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2821 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2822
7546de58
TF
2823TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2824
e5d5a95f
TF
2825TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2826 clock is set back in time.
2827
2e88a017
TF
2828TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2829 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2830
a5f65aa4
TF
2831TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2832 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2833
e7726cbf
PH
2834PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2835 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2836 (see PH/47 above).
2837
a7fdad5b
TF
2838TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2839 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2840 header rewrites.
2841
6af56900
PH
2842PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2843 type ("H").
2844
0925ede6
PH
2845PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2846
66afa403
TF
2847TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2848 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2849 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2850
0154e85a
TF
2851TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2852 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2853 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2854 helo verification defer as a failure.
2855
16f12c76
PH
2856PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2857 actual error message.
2858
bbe902f0 2859
e5a9dba6
PH
2860Exim version 4.52
2861-----------------
2862
2863TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2864
22c3b60b
PH
2865PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2866 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2867 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2868 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2869
06a9b4b5
PH
2870TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2871
c1ac6996
PH
2872PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2873 can still be requested.
2874
9c7a242c
PH
2875PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2876 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2877 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2878 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2879
87ba3f5f
PH
2880TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2881 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2882 circumstances, but probably never did.
2883
2884PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2885 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2886 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2887 in the header line.
2888
29aba418
TF
2889TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2890
fe0dab11
TF
2891TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2892 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2893
11d337a4
TK
2894TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2895
2896TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2897
415c8f3b
PH
2898PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2899 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2900 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2901 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2902 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2903 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2904
958541e9
PH
2905PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2906 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2907 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2908 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2909 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2910 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2911
c206415f
TK
2912TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2913 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2914
2a4be8f9
PH
2915PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2916 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2917
1cba11c5
SC
2918SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2919 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2920
2921SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2922
2923SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2924
2925SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2926
2927SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2928
2929SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2930
2931SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2932
1005d00e
TK
2933TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2934
2935TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2936 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2937 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2938
2939TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2940 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2941 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2942 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2943
9b4768fa
PH
2944PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2945 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2946 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2947
2948PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2949 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2950 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2951 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2952
0d7eb84a
PH
2953PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2954 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2955 to be made).
2956
2957PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2958 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2959 should work with maildirs and everything.
2960
40727bee
TK
2961TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2962 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2963
554d2369
TF
2964TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2965 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2966
1f922db1
PH
2967PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2968 function for BDB 4.3.
2969
ef213c3b
PH
2970PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2971
8ac170f3
PH
2972PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2973 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2974 involved.
2975
b1c749bb
PH
2976PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2977 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2978 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2979 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2980 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2981 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2982
4aac9b49
PH
2983PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2984 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2985 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2986 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2987 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2988 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2989 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2990 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2991
294520c8
TK
2992TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2993 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2994 details.
2995
5bd022fe
PH
2996PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2997 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2998
90e9ce59
PH
2999PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3000 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3001 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3002 test. It is now used for both.
3003
5ea81592
PH
3004PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3005 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3006 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3007 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3008 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3009 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3010
c6c2dc1d
PH
3011PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3012 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3013 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3014 string_vformat().
3015
fffffe4c
PH
3016PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3017 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3018 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3019
9a26b6b2
PH
3020PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3021 experimental DomainKeys support:
3022
3023 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3024 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3025 the control was given.
3026
3027 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3028
4aee0225
PH
3029PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3030
32d668a5
PH
3031PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3032
8187c3f3
PH
3033PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3034 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3035 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3036 db.h files).
3037
ff790e47 3038PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3039 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3040 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3041 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3042 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3043 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3044 course.
ff790e47 3045
5417f6d1
PH
3046PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3047 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3048 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3049 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3050 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3051 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3052
59cf8544
PH
3053PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3054 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3055 do -d+all out of habit.
3056
e7ad8a65
PH
3057PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3058 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3059 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3060
ade42478
PH
3061PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3062 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3063 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3064 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3065 record types that Exim uses.
3066
182ad5cf
PH
3067PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3068 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3069 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3070 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3071 non-existent file that was broken.
3072
b0d9fc80
TK
3073TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3074 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3075
3076TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3077 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3078 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3079
3080TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3081
47c7a64a
PH
3082PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3083 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3084 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3085 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3086 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3087 same time.
3088
a388bce4
SC
3089SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3090 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3091 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3092 at a slight CPU cost.
3093
3094SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3095 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3096
3097SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3098 by Marc Sherman.
3099
0793e4ed
SC
3100SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3101
c58b88df
PH
3102PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3103 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3104
e7ad8a65 3105
7982096b
PH
3106Exim version 4.51
3107-----------------
3108
1a46a8c5
PH
3109TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3110 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3111
2f079f46 3112TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3113
3114TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3115
3116PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3117 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3118
3119PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3120 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3121 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3122 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3123 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3124 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3125 file.
3126
3127PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3128 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3129 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3130 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3131 these two options.
3132
3133PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3134 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3135 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3136 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3137 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3138 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3139 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3140 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3141
3142PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3143 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3144
3145PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3146 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3147 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3148 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3149 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3150 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3151
3152PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3153 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3154 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3155 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3156
3157PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3158 Finch).
3159
3160PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3161 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3162
49c2d5ea
PH
3163PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3164 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3165 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3166 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3167 message.
49c2d5ea 3168
bf759a8b
PH
3169PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3170
83364d30
PH
3171PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3172 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3173
7999bbd7
PH
3174PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3175 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3176 to what was transported.)
3177
7dbf77c9
PH
3178TF/01 Added $received_time.
3179
74e0617f
PH
3180PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3181 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3182 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3183 spamd_address settings.
3184
2f079f46
PH
3185PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3186 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3187 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3188 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3189 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3190
8c841523
PH
3191PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3192
7766a4f0
PH
3193PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3194 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3195 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3196 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3197 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3198
8b417f2c
PH
3199PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3200 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3201
901f42cb
PH
3202PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3203 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3204 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3205 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3206 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3207 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3208 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3209 for failure.
3210
f9b9210e
PH
3211PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3212 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3213 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3214 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3215 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3216 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3217 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3218 "input=".
3219
54cdb463
PH
3220PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3221
cf00dad6
PH
3222PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3223 driver and ACL definitions.
3224
acb1b346
PH
3225PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3226 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3227
c5ddb310
PH
3228PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3229 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3230 understands it better than I do:
3231
3232 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3233 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3234
3235 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3236 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3237 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3238 => three warnings about OTP not working
3239 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3240
3241 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3242 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3243 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3244 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3245 for each call.)
3246 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3247 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3248
3249 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3250 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3251 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3252
31619da6
PH
3253PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3254 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3255 specified.
3256
bebaf0fc
PH
3257PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3258 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3259 "Linux".
3260
475fe28a
PH
3261PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3262 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3263 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3264
3265 warn !verify = sender
3266 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3267
3268 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3269 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3270
7e8bec7a
PH
3271PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3272
3273 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3274 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3275
3276 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3277 nomenclature these days.)
3278
e4a89c47
PH
3279PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3280 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3281
5ca2a9a1
PH
3282PH/30 In these circumstances:
3283 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3284 . First host does not offer TLS;
3285 . First host accepts first address;
3286 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3287 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3288 . Second host accepts second address.
3289 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3290 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3291 address.
7e8bec7a 3292
c688b954
PH
3293PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3294 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3295 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3296 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3297 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3298
fed77020
PH
3299PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3300 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3301
7fe1560f
PH
3302PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3303 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3304
ebb6e6d5
PH
3305PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3306 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3307 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3308
9c4e8f60
PH
3309PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3310 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3311 overlooked.
3312
3313PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3314
d7174846
PH
3315PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3316 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3317 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3318 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3319 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3320 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3321 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3322
3323 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3324 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3325 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3326 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3327 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3328
3329 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3330 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3331 routed further.
3332
cfe75fc3
PH
3333PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3334 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3335 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3336 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3337 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3338 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3339
be22d70e
PH
3340PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3341
0612b098
PH
3342PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3343 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3344 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3345 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3346 printable escape sequences.
3347
2e0c1448
PH
3348PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3349 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3350 body only.
3351
447d236c
PH
3352PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3353 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3354 are as follows:
3355
3356 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3357 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3358 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3359 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3360 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3361
3362 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3363 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3364 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3365
d20976dc
PH
3366PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3367
f656d135
PH
3368PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3369 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3370 play with."
3371
2e2a30b4
PH
3372PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3373 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3374 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3375 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3376 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3377 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3378 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3379 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3380 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3381 the log output.
3382
9176e9f0
PH
3383PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3384 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3385 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3386 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3387 "make".
3388
7982096b 3389
bbe902f0
PH
3390A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3391----------------------------------------
3392
3393Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3394changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3395needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3396in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3397that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3398release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3399from 4.43.
3400
3401I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
34024.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3403those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3404historical information.
3405
3406
f7b63901 3407Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3408-----------------
3409
5fe762f6
PH
3410 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3411
139059f6 3412 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3413 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3414
7086e875
PH
3415 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3416 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3417 place.
3418
35af9f61
PH
3419 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3420 filter fails to execute.
3421
b668c215
PH
3422 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3423 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3424 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3425 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3426 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3427
a494b1e1
PH
3428 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3429
3430 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3431 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3432 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3433 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3434
c5fcb476
PH
3435 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3436 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3437 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3438 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3439 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3440
69358f02
PH
3441 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3442
5be20824
PH
344310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3444
eb2c0248
PH
344511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3446 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3447 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3448 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3449
2a3eea10
PH
345012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3451 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3452 sender verification.
3453
345413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3455 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3456
23c7ff99
PH
345714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3458
4deaf07d
PH
345915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3460 connection timeout.
3461
926e1192
PH
346216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3463 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3464
650edc6f
PH
346517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3466 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3467
2c7db3f5
PH
346818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3469 information about exactly what failed.
3470
3d235903
PH
347119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3472
7c7ad977
PH
347320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3474 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3475 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3476
981756db
PH
347721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3478 It is now set to "smtps".
3479
d4eb88df
PH
348022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3481 ignore_target_hosts.
3482
348323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3484 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3485 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3486 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3487 "[x.x.x.x]".
3488
7d468ab8
PH
348924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3490 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3491 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3492
349325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3494 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3495 wake it up if nothing else does.
3496
62c0818f
PH
349726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3498 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3499 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3500 end up negative.
3501
26034054
PH
350227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3503 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3504
af66f652
PH
350528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3506
90af77f4
PH
350729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3508 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3509 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3510 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3511 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3512 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3513 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3514 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3515
d8ef3577
PH
351630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3517 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3518 than one IP address.
3519
5cb8cbc6
PH
352031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3521 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3522 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3523 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3524
14702f5b
PH
352532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3526 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3527 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3528 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3529 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3530 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3531
063b1e99
PH
353233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3533 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3534 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3535 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3536
652e1b65
PH
353734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3538 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3539 respected.
3540
6f0c9a4f
PH
354135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3542 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3543 $sender_host_address.
3544
33397d19
PH
354536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3546 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3547 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3548 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3549 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3550 very small.
3551
7bb56e1f
PH
355237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3553
3554 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3555 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3556
ea3bc19b
PH
3557 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3558 just the host names, not the priorities.
3559
3560 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3561 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3562 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3563
ea3bc19b 3564 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3565 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3566
0bcb2a0e
PH
356738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3568 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3569 domain.
3570
2ac0e484
PH
357139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3572
4e1fde53
PH
357340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3574 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3575
de365ded
PH
357641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3577 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3578 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3579
f05da2e8
PH
358042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3581
d6453af2
PH
358243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3583
f7b63901
PH
358444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3585
358645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3587 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3588 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3589 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3590 because the tests only now provoked it.
3591
a444213a
PH
359246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3593 (this can affect the format of dates).
3594
0ec020ea
PH
359547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3596 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3597 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3598 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3599
b1206957
PH
360048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3601
360249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3603 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3604 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3605 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3606
26dd5a95
PH
360750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3608 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3609 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3610
343b2385
PH
361151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3612 autoreply.
3613
1c5466b9
PH
361452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3615 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3616 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3617 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3618 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3619 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3620 is going on).
3621
55ee9ee3
PH
362253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3623 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3624 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3625 the line.
3626
d38f8232
PH
362754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3628 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3629 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3630
3631 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3632 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3633 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3634 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3635 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3636 so I produce this patch..."
3637
3295e65b
PH
3638 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3639 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3640 is not defined.
3641
7102e136
PH
364255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3643 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3644 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3645 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3646 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3647
3ca0ba97
PH
364856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3649
c2bcbe20
PH
365057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3651 long debug lines gets shown.
3652
18ce445d
PH
365358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3654 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3655
1f5b4c3d
PH
365659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3657
3658 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3659 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3660 of $primary_hostname.
3661
b975ba52
PH
366260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3663 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3664 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3665 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3666 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3667 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3668 by change 4.50/55 above.
3669
3670 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3671 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3672 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3673 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3674 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3675 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3676 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3677
367861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3679 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3680 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3681 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3682
17ffcae7
PH
368362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3684 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3685
d95f9fdb
PH
368663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3687 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3688 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3689 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3690 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3691
86b8287f
PH
369264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3693 This has been fixed.
3694
60dc5e56
PH
369565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3696 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3697 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3698 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3699 the caching.)
3700
533244af
PH
370166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3702
a5a28604
PH
370367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3704 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3705 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3706 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3707
7e634d24
PH
370868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3709 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3710
3e11c26b
PH
371169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3712 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3713 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3714
6729cf78
PH
371570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3716 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3717 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3718 message there.
3719
00f00ca5
PH
372071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3721 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3722 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3723
c9bdd01c
PH
372472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3725 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3726 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3727 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3728
d43194df
PH
372973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3730 during host lookups.
3731
fe5b5d0b
PH
373274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3733 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3734
3735 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3736
76a2d7ba
PH
373775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3738 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3739 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3740 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3741 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3742 background.
3743
374476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3745 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3746
04f7d5b9
PH
374777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3748 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3749 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3750
bc60667e
PH
375178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3752
bb6e88ff
PH
375379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3754 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3755 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3756 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3757 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3758 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3759 process earlier.
3760
1e70f85b
PH
376180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3762 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3763 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3764 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3765 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3766
376781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3768 tables).
3769
4e01f9d6
PH
377082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3771
1ee1cef2
PH
377283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3773 "vacation" handling.
3774
6e2b4ccc
PH
377584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3776 OS variants using glibc.
3777
8e669ac1
PH
377885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3779
495ae4b0 3780
bbe902f0
PH
3781----------------------------------------------------
3782See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3783----------------------------------------------------
3784
3785
3786Exim version 4.44
3787-----------------
3788
3789 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3790 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3791 transport
3792
3793 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3794 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3795 place.
3796
3797 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3798 filter fails to execute.
3799
3800 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3801 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3802 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3803 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3804 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3805
3806 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3807 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3808 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3809 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3810
3811 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3812 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3813 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3814 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3815 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3816
3817 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3818
3819 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3820 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3821 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3822 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3823
3824 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3825 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3826 sender verification.
3827
382810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3829 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3830
383111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3832 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3833
383412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3835 ignore_target_hosts.
3836
383713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3838 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3839 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3840 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3841 "[x.x.x.x]".
3842
384314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3844 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3845 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3846
384715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3848 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3849 wake it up if nothing else does.
3850
385116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3852 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3853 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3854 end up negative.
3855
385617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3857 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3858
ea3a6f44 385918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3860
386119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3862 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3863 empty pattern.
3864
386520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3866 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3867 one IP address.
3868
ea3a6f44
NM
386921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3870 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3871 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3872 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3873 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3874 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3875
ea3a6f44
NM
387622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3877 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3878 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3879
388023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3881 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3882 $sender_host_address.
3883
388424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3885
ea3a6f44
NM
388625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3887 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3888 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3889
389026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3891 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3892
ea3a6f44
NM
389327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3894 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3895
ea3a6f44
NM
389628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3897 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3898 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3899 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3900
390129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3902 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3903 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3904
ea3a6f44
NM
390530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3906 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3907 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3908 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3909
ea3a6f44
NM
391031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3911 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3912 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3913
ea3a6f44
NM
391431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3915 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3916
ea3a6f44
NM
391732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3918 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3919 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3920 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3921 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3922 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3923 is going on).
bbe902f0 3924
ea3a6f44
NM
392533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3926 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3927 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3928 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3929 CAN-2005-0021
3930
ea3a6f44
NM
393134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3932 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3933 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3934 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3935 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3936 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3937 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3938
3939 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3940 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3941 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3942 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3943 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3944 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3945 CAN-2005-0021
3946
ea3a6f44
NM
394735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3948 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3949 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3950 CAN-2005-0022
3951
ea3a6f44
NM
395236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3953 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3954 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3955 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3956 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3957
ea3a6f44
NM
395837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3959 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3960 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3961 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3962 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3963
ea3a6f44
NM
396438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3965 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3966 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3967 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3968 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3969
3970
495ae4b0
PH
3971Exim version 4.43
3972-----------------
3973
3974 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3975 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3976 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3977 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3978 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3979 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3980 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3981
3982 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3983 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3984 the delivery.
3985
3986 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3987
3988 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3989
3990 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3991 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3992 to local_scan().
3993
3994 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3995 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3996 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3997 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3998 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3999
4000 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4001 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4002
4003 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4004
4005 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4006
400710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4008 header_sender only.
4009
401011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4011 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4012
401312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4014 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4015 affecting debugging statements).
4016
401713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4018
401914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4020 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4021 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4022 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4023 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4024 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4025 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4026 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4027 after the received time, and all would be well.
4028
402915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4030 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4031 condition in an expansion string.
4032
403316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4034
403517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4036 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4037 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4038 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4039 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4040 job under whatever limits there are.
4041
404218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4043
404419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4045 space).
4046
404720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4048 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4049 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4050 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4051 return path is set.
4052
405321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4054 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4055 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4056 binary data in such strings.
4057
405822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4059
406023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4061 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4062 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4063 failure, which is pointless.
4064
406524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4066
406725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4068
406926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4070 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4071 Sender: header lines.
4072
407327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4074 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4075 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4076
407728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4078 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4079 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4080 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4081 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4082 happens.
4083
408429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4085 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4086 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4087 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4088 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4089
409030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4091 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4092 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4093 1024.
4094
409531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4096 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4097
409832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4099 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4100
410133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4102
410332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4104
410533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4106
410734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4108 syntax error.
4109
411035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4111
411236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4113
411437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4115 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4116 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4117 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4118
411938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4120 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4121
4122
4123Exim version 4.42
4124-----------------
4125
4126 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4127 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4128 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4129 it was not quoted.
4130 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4131 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4132 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4133 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4134 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4135 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4136
4137 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4138 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4139 verification failure".
4140
4141 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4142 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4143 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4144 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4145
4146 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4147 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4148 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4149 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4150 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4151 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4152 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4153 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4154 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4155 treated as a timeout.
4156
4157 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4158 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4159 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4160 not set for Exim filters).
4161
4162 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4163 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4164 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4165
4166 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4167
4168 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4169 try to make them clearer.
4170
4171 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4172 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4173
4174 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4175
4176 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4177
417810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4179 only the Cygwin environment.
4180
418111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4182 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4183 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4184 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4185 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4186
418712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4188 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4189 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4190 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4191 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4192 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4193 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4194
419513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4196 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4197
419814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4199
4200 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4201 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4202 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4203
4204 To: susanne@some.where
4205
4206 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4207 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4208 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4209 of addresses in From: header lines).
4210
4211 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4212 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4213 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4214
4215 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4216 treated as non-personal.
4217
4218 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4219 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4220
422115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4222
422316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4224
422517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4226 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4227 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4228
422918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4230 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4231
423219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4233 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4234 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4235 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4236 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4237 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4238
423920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4240 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4241 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4242 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4243 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4244 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4245 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4246 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4247
4248 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4249
425021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4251 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4252
425322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4254 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4255 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4256
425723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4258 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4259
426024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4261 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4262 rather than long int.
4263
426425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4265
426626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4267
4268
4269Exim version 4.41
4270-----------------
4271
4272 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4273 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4274 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4275 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4276 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4277 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4278
4279
4280Exim version 4.40
4281-----------------
4282
4283 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4284 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4285
4286 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4287 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4288 socklen_t is defined.
4289
4290 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4291 always exist.
4292
4293 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4294 configured.
4295
4296 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4297 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4298 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4299 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4300 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4301
4302 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4303 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4304 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4305 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4306
4307 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4308 of flapping under certain conditions.
4309
4310 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4311 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4312 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4313
4314 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4315
431610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4317
431811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4319 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4320 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4321 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4322
432312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4324 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4325 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4326 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4327 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4328 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4329 preserved with the message after it was received.
4330
433113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4332 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4333 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4334 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4335 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4336 test suite worked just fine.
4337
433814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4339 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4340 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4341
434215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4343 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4344 string.
4345
434616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4347 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4348 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4349 does not fully solve it.
4350
435117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4352 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4353 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4354 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4355 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4356
435718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4358 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4359 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4360
436119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4362 string, for example:
4363
4364 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4365
4366 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4367 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4368 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4369 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4370 the routers could not see them.
4371
437220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4373 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4374
437521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4376 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4377 output).
4378
437922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4380 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4381 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4382 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4383 that needed quoting.
4384
438523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4386 was not being matched caselessly.
4387
438824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4389 backslashes.
4390
439125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4392 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4393 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4394 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4395 when use_sender is false.
4396
439726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4398
439927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4400
440128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4402
440329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4404 the configuration file.
4405
440630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4407 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4408
440931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4410
441132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4412 bytes in the message body.
4413
441433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4415 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4416 delivery.
4417
441834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4419
442035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4421
442236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4423 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4424 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4425 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4426 another IP address.
4427
4428
4429Exim version 4.34
4430-----------------
4431
4432 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4433 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4434
4435 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4436 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4437 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4438 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4439 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4440
4441 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4442 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4443
4444 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4445 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4446 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4447
4448 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4449 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4450 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4451
4452 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4453 for routers.
4454
4455 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4456 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4457 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4458 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4459 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4460 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4461 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4462
4463
4464Exim version 4.33
4465-----------------
4466
4467 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4468 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4469 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4470 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4471 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4472 default (and expected) setting.
4473
4474 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4475 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4476 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4477 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4478
4479 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4480 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4481
4482 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4483 in domain lists.
4484
4485 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4486 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4487 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4488 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4489 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4490 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4491
4492 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4493 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4494 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4495
4496 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4497 part (NOT match_host).
4498
4499 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4500
4501 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4502 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4503 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4504 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4505 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4506 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4507 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4508 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4509 the same named file.
4510
451110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4512 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4513 when Exim is built.
4514
451511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4516 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4517 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4518 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4519 a host name.
4520
452112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4522 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4523 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4524
452513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4526
452714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4528
452915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4530
453116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4532 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4533
453417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4535 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4536 before starting the TLS session.
4537
453818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4539
454019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4541 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4542
454320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4544 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4545 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4546 colon in the middle).
4547
4548
4549Exim version 4.32
4550-----------------
4551
4552 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4553 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4554 multiple configurations are in use.
4555
4556 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4557 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4558 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4559 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4560 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4561 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4562
4563 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4564 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4565
4566 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4567 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4568 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4569
4570 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4571 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4572 occurs.
4573
4574 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4575 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4576
4577 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4578
4579 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4580 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4581
4582 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4583
4584 -prval:sval
4585
4586 is equivalent to
4587
4588 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4589
4590 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4591 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4592 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4593 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4594 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4595
459610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4597 Exim's behaviour:
4598
4599 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4600 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4601 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4602 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4603 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4604 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4605
4606 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4607 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4608 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4609 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4610 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4611 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4612 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4613 string.
4614
4615 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4616 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4617 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4618 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4619 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4620
462111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4622
462312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4624 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4625 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4626
462713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4628
462914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4630 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4631 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4632 information.
4633
463415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4635 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4636
463716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4638 Three changes have been made:
4639
4640 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4641 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4642 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4643 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4644 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4645
4646 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4647 been restored.
4648
4649 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4650 the modified behaviour.
4651
4652
4653Exim version 4.31
4654-----------------
4655
4656 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4657 Larry Rosenman.
4658
4659 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4660 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4661
4662 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4663 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4664 try to track down a specific problem.
4665
4666 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4667 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4668 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4669
4670 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4671 warning.
4672
4673 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4674 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4675 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4676 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4677 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4678 some earlier ones do not.
4679
4680 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4681
4682 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4683 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4684 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4685 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4686 address literals are enabled, of course).
4687
4688 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4689
469010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4691 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4692 by a command such as
4693
4694 exim -f "" ...
4695
4696 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4697
469811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4699
470012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4701 remained set. It is now erased.
4702
470313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4704 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4705
470614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4707 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4708 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4709 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4710 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4711 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4712 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4713 appropriate error code.
4714
471515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4716 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4717 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4718 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4719 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4720 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4721
472216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4723 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4724 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4725
472617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4727 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4728 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4729 terminate the header.
4730
473118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4732 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4733 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4734
473519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4736 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4737 (4.30/29). In particular:
4738
4739 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4740 imposed.
4741
4742 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4743 to write a maildirsize file.
4744
4745 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4746 the transport, the new value overrides.
4747
4748 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4749 count.
4750
475120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4752 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4753 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4754 space or a tab.
4755
475621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4757 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4758 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4759 the fallback hosts.
4760
476122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4762 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4763 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4764
476523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4766 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4767 using a union.
4768
476924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4770 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4771 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4772
477325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4774
477526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4776
477727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4778
477928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4780 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4781 become corrupted.
4782
478329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4784 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4785 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4786 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4787 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4788 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4789 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4790 too great.
4791
479230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4793 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4794 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4795 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4796 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4797 incorrectly.
4798
479931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4800 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4801 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4802 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4803 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4804 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4805 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4806 cached value only when the same options are set.
4807
480832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4809
481033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4811 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4812 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4813 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4814 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4815
481634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4817 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4818 it is clearly obsolete.
4819
482035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4821 transport.
4822
482336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4824 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4825 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4826 times.
4827
482837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4829 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4830 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4831 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4832 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4833
483438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4835 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4836 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4837 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4838
483939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4840
4841 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4842
4843 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4844 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4845 2^31.
4846
484740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4848 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4849 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4850 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4851 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4852 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4853 $localpart_data.
4854
485541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4856 with the -f command-line option.
4857
485842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4859 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4860 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4861 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4862 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4863 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4864
486543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4866 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4867 line.
4868
486944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4870 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4871 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4872 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4873 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4874 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4875 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4876 buffer is too small.
4877
487845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4879 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4880
488146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4882 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4883 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4884 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4885 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4886 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4887 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4888 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4889 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4890
489147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4892 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4893 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4894
489548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4896 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4897 ACL").
4898
489949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4900 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4901 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4902 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4903 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4904
490550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4906 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4907 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4908 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4909 is set.
4910
491151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4912
491352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4914
491553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4916 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4917
491854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4919 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4920 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4921
492255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4923 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4924 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4925 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4926 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4927
492856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4929 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4930 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4931 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4932 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4933 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4934 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4935
493657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4937 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4938 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4939 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4940 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4941 the test of how many are available.
4942
494358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4944 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4945 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4946 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4947 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4948 new message is started.
4949
495059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4951 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4952
495360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4954 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4955
495661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4957 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4958 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4959 is no long logged.
4960
496162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4962 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4963 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4964 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4965 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4966 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4967 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4968
496963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4970 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4971 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4972 interpreted as octal.
4973
497464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4975 setting.
4976
497765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4978 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4979 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4980 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4981 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4982 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4983
498466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4985 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4986 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4987 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4988
4989 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4990 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4991 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4992 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4993
4994 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4995 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4996 is a bug fix.
4997
4998 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4999 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5000
500167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5002
500368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5004 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5005 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5006 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5007
500869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5009 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5010 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5011 supplied", which is not helpful.
5012
501370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5014 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5015 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5016
501771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5018 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5019 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5020 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5021 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5022 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5023 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5024 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5025
502672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5027 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5028 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5029 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5030 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5031
503273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5033 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5034 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5035 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5036 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5037 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5038
503974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5040 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5041 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5042
504375. Added write_rejectlog option.
5044
504576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5046 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5047 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5048 variables.
5049
505077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5051
505278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5053 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5054 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5055 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5056 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5057 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5058 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5059 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5060
506179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5062 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5063 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5064 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5065 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5066
506780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5068 Haardt.
5069
507081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5071 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5072 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5073 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5074 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5075 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5076 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5077 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5078 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5079
5080
5081Exim version 4.30
5082-----------------
5083
5084 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5085 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5086 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5087
5088 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5089 fixed.
5090
5091 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5092 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5093 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5094
5095 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5096 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5097 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5098 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5099 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5100 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5101
5102 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5103 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5104 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5105 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5106 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5107 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5108 the Exim test suite.
5109
5110 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5111 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5112 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5113 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5114
5115 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5116 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5117 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5118 specify it in this variable.
5119
5120 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5121 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5122 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5123 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5124
5125 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5126 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5127 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5128 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5129
5130 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5131 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5132 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5133 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5134 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5135
5136 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5137
513810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5139 they are logged.
5140
514111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5142 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5143 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5144 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5145 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5146
514712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5148 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5149
515013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5151 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5152 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5153 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5154 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5155
515614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5157 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5158
515915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5160 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5161 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5162
516316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5164 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5165
516617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5167 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5168
516918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5170 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5171 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5172
517319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5174 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5175
517620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5177 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5178 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5179 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5180
518121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5182
518322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5184 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5185 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5186 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5187
518823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5189
519024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5191 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5192
519325. Added .include_if_exists.
5194
519526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5196 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5197 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5198 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5199 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5200 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5201
520227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5203
520428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5205 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5206 this.
5207
520829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5209
521030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5211 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5212
5213 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5214 550 Sender verify failed
5215
5216 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5217 the final line of the response.
5218
521931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5220 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5221 all other user lookups.
5222
522332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5224 delivery time.
5225
522633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5227 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5228 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5229 result into an int without checking.
5230
523134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5232 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5233 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5234
523535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5236 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5237 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5238 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5239
524036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5241 correctly.
5242
524337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5244 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5245
524638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5247 to the empty sender.
5248
524939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5250 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5251 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5252 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5253 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5254 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5255 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5256 panic log.
5257
525840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5259 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5260 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5261 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5262 used.
5263
526441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5265 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5266
526742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5268 timestamps.
5269
527043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5271 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5272
527344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5274
527545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5276 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5277 logs.
5278
527946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5280 as soon as it is encountered.
5281
528247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5283
528448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5285 rewritten to "<>".
5286
528749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5288 recognizes a tab character.
5289
529050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5291 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5292 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5293 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5294
529551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5296
529752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5298 crash.
5299
530053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5301
530254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5303
530455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5305 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5306 2822.
5307
530856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5309 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5310 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5311 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5312 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5313
531457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5315 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5316
531758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5318 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5319 list (.included file names were always shown).
5320
532159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5322 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5323 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5324 root at that time.
5325
532660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5327 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5328
532961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5330
533162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5332
533363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5334
533564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5336 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5337 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5338 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5339 failures to open the logs.
5340
534165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5342 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5343 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5344 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5345 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5346 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5347 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5348
5349
5350Exim version 4.24
5351-----------------
5352
5353 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5354 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5355 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5356 change 4.23/1.
5357
5358 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5359 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5360 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5361
5362 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5363 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5364 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5365
5366 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5367 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5368 causing some misleading effects.
5369
5370 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5371 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5372 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5373
5374 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5375 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5376 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5377 queue-runner function directly.
5378
5379
5380Exim version 4.23
5381-----------------
5382
5383 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5384 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5385
5386 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5387 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5388 was always written to the default place.
5389
5390 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5391 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5392 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5393
5394 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5395
5396 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5397
5398 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5399 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5400 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5401
5402 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5403 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5404 must start.
5405
5406 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5407 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5408 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5409
5410 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5411 command line option is disabled.
5412
5413 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5414 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5415
5416 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5417
5418 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5419
5420 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5421 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5422
542310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5424
542511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5426 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5427 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5428 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5429 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5430 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5431
543212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5433 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5434 timeout.
5435
543613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5437 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5438
543914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5440 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5441
544215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5443 received was valid base64.
5444
544516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5446 name of the variable that was being set.
5447
544817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5449
545018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5451 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5452 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5453 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5454 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5455 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5456
545719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5458
545920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5460 nor realm was specified.
5461
546221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5463 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5464 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5465 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5466
546722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5468 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5469 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5470
547123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5472 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5473 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5474
547524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5476 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5477 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5478 some systems use these upper case variants.
5479
548025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5481 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5482 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5483 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5484
548526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5486
548727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5488 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5489
549028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5491 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5492 expansion variable.
5493
549429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5495
549630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5497 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5498 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5499 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5500
550131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5502 using it.
5503
550432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5505 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5506 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5507
550833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5509 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5510
551134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5512 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5513 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5514 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5515
551635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5517 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5518 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5519
552036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5521
552237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5523 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5524 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5525 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5526 aborted.
5527
552838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5529 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5530 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5531
553239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5533
553440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5535 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5536
553741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5538 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5539
554042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5541 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5542 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5543 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5544 when emails are that large.
5545
5546
5547
5548Exim version 4.22
5549-----------------
5550
5551 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5552 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5553
5554 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5555 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5556 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5557
5558 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5559 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5560 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5561
5562 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5563 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5564 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5565 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5566 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5567
5568 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5569 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5570 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5571 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5572 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5573 ever.
5574
5575 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5576 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5577 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5578 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5579 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5580 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5581 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5582 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5583 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5584 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5585 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5586 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5587 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5588 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5589
5590 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5591 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5592 parameterised it.
5593
5594 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5595 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5596 error should be diagnosed.
5597
5598 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5599 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5600 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5601 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5602 appeared instead of "NULL".
5603
560410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5605 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5606 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5607 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5608 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5609 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5610 proceeds).
5611
5612 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5613 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5614 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5615
5616
5617Exim version 4.21
5618-----------------
5619
5620 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5621 or receiver verification errors.
5622
5623 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5624 name.
5625
5626 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5627 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5628 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5629 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5630
5631 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5632 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5633 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5634 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5635 shouldn't happen again.
5636
5637 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5638 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5639 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5640
5641 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5642 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5643
5644 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5645
5646 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5647 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5648
5649 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5650 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5651 RFC.
5652
565310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5654 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5655 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5656
565711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5658 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5659 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5660 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5661
566212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5663 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5664 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5665 to define what should happen).
5666
566713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5668 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5669 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5670
567114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5672
567315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5674
567516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5676 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5677
567817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5679 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5680 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5681 structure in all cases.
5682
5683 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5684 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5685 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5686 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5687
568818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5689 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5690 domain name.
5691
569219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5693 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5694
569520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5696 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5697
569821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5699 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5700 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5701
570222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5703 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5704 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5705
570623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5707 the book and for uniformity.
5708
570924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5710
571125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5712 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5713 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5714 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5715 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5716 non-existent command as the problem.
5717
571826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5719 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5720 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5721
572227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5723
572428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5725 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5726 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5727
572829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5729 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5730 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5731 timestamps using strftime().
5732
573330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5734 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5735
573632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5737 transport-time rewrites.
5738
573933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5740 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5741 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5742 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5743
574434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5745 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5746
574735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5748 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5749 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5750 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5751 comma and a space.
5752
575336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5754 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5755 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5756 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5757 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5758 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5759 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5760
576137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5762 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5763 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5764 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5765 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5766
576738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5768 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5769 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5770 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5771 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5772 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5773 remaining text gets split now.
5774
577539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5776 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5777 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5778 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5779
578040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5781 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5782 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5783 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5784 $return_path.
5785
578641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5787 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5788 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5789 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5790 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5791 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5792 passed through if needed.
5793
579442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5795 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5796 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5797 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5798 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5799 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5800
580143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5802 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5803 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5804 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5805 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5806
580744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5808 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5809 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5810 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5811 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5812
581345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5814 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5815 noticed.
5816
581746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5818 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5819 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5820 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5821 mayhem of various kinds.
5822
582347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5824 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5825 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5826 the right test for positive values.
5827
582848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5829 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5830 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5831 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5832 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5833 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5834 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5835 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5836 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5837 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5838 envelope.
5839
584049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5841 module.
5842
584350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5844 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5845 forbidding it.
5846
584751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5848 the existing equality matching.
5849
585052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5851 dealing with inode numbers.
5852
585353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5854 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5855 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5856
585754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5858 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5859 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5860 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5861 local_scan().
5862
586355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5864 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5865 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5866 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5867 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5868 relay addresses has also been removed.
5869
587056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5871
587257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5873 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5874 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5875
587658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5877 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5878 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5879 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5880 processing applies to CR:
5881
5882 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5883 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5884
5885 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5886 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5887 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5888 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5889
589059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5891 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5892 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5893
589460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5895 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5896 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5897 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5898 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5899 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5900 arisen.
5901
590261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5903 program routers.
5904
590562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5906 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5907 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5908 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5909 adds:
5910
5911 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5912
5913 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5914
5915 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5916
591763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5918 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5919 not considered personal.
5920
592164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5922
592365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5924
592566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5926
592767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5928 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5929 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5930 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5931 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5932 header lines, and spool format errors.
5933
593468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5935 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5936 for more flexibility.
5937
593869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5939 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5940 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5941
594270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5943 Sabourenkov.
5944
594571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5946 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5947 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5948 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5949 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5950 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5951 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5952 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5953 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5954
595572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5956 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5957 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5958 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5959 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5960 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5961 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5962
596373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5964 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5965 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5966
596774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5968 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5969 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5970 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5971 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5972 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5973 instead of killing the process with assert().
5974
597575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5976 than Unicode encoding.
5977
597876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5979 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5980 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5981 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5982
598377. Added process_log_path.
5984
598578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5986 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5987
598879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5989 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5990
599180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5992 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5993 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5994
599581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5996 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5997 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5998 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5999 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6000 were applied:
6001
6002 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6003 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6004 as invalid.
6005
600682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6007 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6008 they will be used during message reception.
6009
6010
6011Exim version 4.20
6012-----------------
6013
6014The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6015
6016****