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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.85
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7TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
8 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
9 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
10 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
11 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
12 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
13 the script parsing/test process like normal.
14
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15TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
16 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
17 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
18 function when detected.
19
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20JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
21 cause callback expansion.
22
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23TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
24 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
25 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
26 instead of bool when processing it.
27
0f06b4f2 28JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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29 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
30
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31JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
32
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33JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
34
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35TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
36
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37TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
38 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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40JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
41 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
42 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
43 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
44 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
45 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
46
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47JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
48 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
49 exceeded it.
50
51
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52Exim version 4.84
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54TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
55 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
56 return.
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58JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
59 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
60
61JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
62
63TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 64 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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69
70TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
71
72 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
73 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
74 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
75 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
76 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
77 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
78
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79TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
80 utilities have not been installed.
81
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82JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
83 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
84
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85TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
86 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
87
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88TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
89 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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90 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
91 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 92
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93JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
94
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95TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
96 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
97
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98PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
99 not dns_use_dnssec.
100
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101JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
102
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103TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
104 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
105 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
106
8ddef691 107TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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108 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
109 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
110 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
111 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 112 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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114JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
115
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116JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
117 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
118
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119JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
120 failed delivery.
121
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122JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
123
511a6c14 124JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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126JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
127 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 128
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129JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
130 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
131
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132TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
133
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134JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
135
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136JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
137 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
138
139 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
140 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
141 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
142
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143TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
144 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
145 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
146 analysis.
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148JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
149
8c51eead 150JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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151 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
152 lookup).
8c51eead 153
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154TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
155 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
156 Schlichting.
35aba663 157
fd3b6a4a 158JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 159 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 160
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161TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
162 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
163
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164JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
165
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166TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
167 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
168 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
169
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170JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
171 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
172
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173JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
174 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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175 hosts_request_ocsp.
176
ed3bba5f 177JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 178 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 179 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 180
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181JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
182
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183TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
184 Christian Aistleitner.
185
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186JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
187
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188TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
189 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
190
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191JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
192 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
193
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194JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
195 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
196
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197TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
198 support and error reporting did not work properly.
199
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200TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
201 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
202
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203TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
204 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
205 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
206
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207JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
208
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209PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
210 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
211 Jasper Wallace.
212
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213JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
214
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215TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
216 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
217 CVE-2014-2972
218
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2c422e6f 220Exim version 4.82
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222
223PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
224
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225PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
226 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
227
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228PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
229 by GnuTLS.
230
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231PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
232 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
233 routines.
234
13363eba 235PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 236
66645890 237PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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238 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
239 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
240 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
241 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 242
a3fb9793 243PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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244 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
245 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
246 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 247 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 248 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 249
d27f98fe 250TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 251
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252TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
253
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254TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
255 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
256
ae0e32ee 257TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 258 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 259 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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261TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 262
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263TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
264
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265TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
266 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
267
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268JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
269
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270JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
271
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272PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
273
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274NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
275 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 276
585121e2 277JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 278
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279PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
280 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
281 function.
a5f239e4 282
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283PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
284 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
285
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286JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
287 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
288 "acl = name arg..."
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290JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
291
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292JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
293
ea722490 294JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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295 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
296
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297JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
298 Bugzilla 884.
299
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300JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
301 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
302
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303JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
304 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
305
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306PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
307 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 308 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 309
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310JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
311 authenticators.
312
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313JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
314 for control.
315
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316PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
317
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318PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
319 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
320 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
321 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
322
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323TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
324
325 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
326 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
327 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
328 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
329 the retry rules.
330
331 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
332 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
333 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
334
335 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
336 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
337 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
338 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
339
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340 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
341 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
342 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
343 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
344 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
345 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
346 delivery, as in LMTP.
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348 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
349 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
350
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351TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
352
353 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
354
355 Resent-From: f
356
357 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
358 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
359 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
360 username as equal to the username.
361
362 This change corrects that bug.
363
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364GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
365 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
366 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
367
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368TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
369
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370PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
371 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
372 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
373 NULL dereference and crash.
374
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375JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
376
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377PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
378 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
379 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
380
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381SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
382
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383JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
384 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
385 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
386 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
387 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
388 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
389 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
390 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
391 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
392 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
393 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
394
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395PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
396 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
397
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398PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
399 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
400 Bugzilla 880.
401
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402PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
403 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
404 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
405 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
406 an empty string is now equivalent.
407
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408PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
409 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
410 not performing validation itself.
411
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412PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
413 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
414
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415JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
416 Bugzilla 321, 823.
417
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418TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
419
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420PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
421 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
422 other false fix of the same issue.
423 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
424 Bugzilla 1363.
425
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426PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
427 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
428
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429PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
430 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
431 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
432
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433PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
434 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
435 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
436
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437TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
438
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439JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
440
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441TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
442 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
443
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444TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
445 Alexander Miroch.
446
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447TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
448 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
449 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
450 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
451 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 452
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453TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
454 the src/util/ subdirectory.
455
581d7bee 456TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 457 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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458 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
459
460TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
461 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
462 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
463 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
464
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465TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
466
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467TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
468 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
469 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 470
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471TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
472
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473TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
474 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
475 interaction.
476
477TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
478 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
479
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480TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
481 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
482
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486
487PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
488 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 489 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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494
495PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
496 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
497 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
498
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499NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
500
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501NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
502 improved.
503
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504NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
505
c1e794ba 506PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 507
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508PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
509
510PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
511 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
512
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513PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
514 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
515
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516PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
517 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
518
f1e05cc7 519PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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520 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
521 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 522
4c287009
PP
523PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
524
b98bb9ac
PP
525PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
526 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
527
4a6a987a
PP
528PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
529
c45dd180 530PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 531
7db8d074
PP
532PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
533 non-compliant senders.
534 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
535
eae0036b 536NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
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537 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
538 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
539
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540PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
541 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
542 in spool file corruption.
543
c80c5570
PP
544PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
545 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
546 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
547 "Got SSL error 2".
548
076b11e2
PP
549TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
550 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
551 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
552
5407bfff
JH
553JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
554 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
555
9e45c72b
PP
556JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
557
e74376d8
PP
558PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
559 diagnostics.
560 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
561
da3ad30d
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562PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
563 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
564 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
565
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566PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
567 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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568 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
569 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 570
ef840681
PP
571PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
572 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
573
5bfb4cdf
PP
574PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
575 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
576 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
577 resolver implementation change.
578
c6e95d22
PP
579PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
580 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
581
9cbad13b
PP
582PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
583
9ee44efb
PP
584PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
585
6a6084f8
PP
586PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
587 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
588
12dd53c7
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589PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
590 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
591
9e45c72b 592JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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593 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
594
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PP
595PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
596 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
597 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
598 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 599 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 600
53947857 601PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 602
eae0036b 603PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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PP
604 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
605 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 606
9e45c72b 607JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 608
7390e768
PP
609PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
610 read-only, out of scope).
611 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
612
08488c86
PP
613PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
614 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
615 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
616 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
617
6475bd82
PP
618PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
619
81f91683
PP
620PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
621 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
622 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
623 real issues in debug logging.
624
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PP
625PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
626 assignment on my part. Fixed.
627
3375e053
PP
628PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
629 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
630 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
631
632PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
633 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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634 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
635 problems.
3375e053 636
9d26b8c0
PP
637PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
638 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
639
57eb9e91 640PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
641 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
642 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
643 needs to override this, it can.
644
16880d1a
PP
645PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
646 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
647 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
648
a799883d
PP
649PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
650 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
651 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
652 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
653
3ecab157 654PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 655
0599f9cf 656
867fcbf5
PP
657Exim version 4.77
658-----------------
659
660PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
661 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
662
f1a29782
TF
663TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
664
ab42bd23
TK
665TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
666 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 667
0ca0cf52
TF
668TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
669 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
670
921b12ca
TF
671TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
672 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
673 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
674
675 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
676 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
677 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
678 not safe for signals.
679
680 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
681 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
682 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
683 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
684 exiwhat.
685
c99ce5c9
TF
686TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
687
688 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
689 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
690 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
691 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
692 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
693
694 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
695 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
696 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
697 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
698 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
699 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
700
701 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
702 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
703 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
704 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
705
706 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
707 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
708 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
709 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
710
711 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
712 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
713 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
714 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
715 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
716 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
717 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
718 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
719 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
720
721 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
722 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
723 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
724 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
725
726 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
727 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
728 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
729 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
730 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
731 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
732 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
733 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
734 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
735 details in the main documentation.
736
3634fc25
TF
737TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
738
792e8a19
TF
739TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
740
5901f0ab
TF
741TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
742 repository when doing development or release builds.
743
7f2a2a43
PP
744PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
745 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 746
061b7ebd
PP
747PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
748 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
749 Bugzilla 97.
750
e12f8c32
PP
751PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
752
9e949f00 753PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
754 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
755
756PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
757 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 758
555ae6af 759PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
760 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
761
762PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
763 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 764
6f7fe114
PP
765PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
766 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
767
c566dd90
PP
768PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
769 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
770 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
771 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 772
d6cc7c78 773PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
774 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
775 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
776
0d0e4455
PP
777PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
778
3399bb60 779PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
780
781PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
782 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
783
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10906672
PP
785Exim version 4.76
786-----------------
787
788PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
789
754a0503
PP
790PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
791 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
792
c0c7b2da
PP
793PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
794
e97d1f08
PP
795PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
796
084c1d8c
PP
797PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
798 Bugzilla 1098.
799
4e7ee012
PP
800PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
801 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 802
c8d52a00
PP
803TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
804 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
805
54e7ce4a
PP
806PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
807 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
808
5ee6f336
PP
809PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
810 Bugzilla 1104.
811
c8d52a00 812TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
813 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
814
815TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
816 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
817 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
818 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
819
820PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
821 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 822
10906672 823
aa097c4c
NM
824Exim version 4.75
825-----------------
826
4c9ef03a 827NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
828 Bugzilla 1073
829
7f3d9eff
TF
830TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
831 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
832 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
833
159f52d2
TF
834TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
835 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
836
0cc9542a
PP
837PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
838 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
839 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
840
f7274286
PP
841PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
842 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
843
7b797365
PP
844PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
845 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
846
caacae52
NM
847NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
848 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
849
09dcaba9
NM
850NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
851 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
852
bc19a55b
PP
853PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
854 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 855
bd4c9759
NM
856NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
857 Fixes bug 943.
858
b72aab72
PP
859PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
860 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
861
2fe76745
PP
862PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
863 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
864
76aa570c
PP
865PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
866 SQL string expansion failure details.
867 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
868
f1e5fef5
PP
869PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
870 Patch from Simon Arlott.
871
4d805ee9
PP
872PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
873 extern declarations in function scope.
874 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
875
cd59ab18
PP
876PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
877 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
878 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
879 a kernel bug).
880
332f5cf3
PP
881PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
882 Patch from Mark Zealey.
883
29cfeb94
PP
884PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
885 Patch from Mark Zealey.
886
660242ad
PP
887PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
888 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
889
bc4bc4c5
PP
890PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
891 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
892
2e64baa9
NM
893NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
894 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
895 Dennis Davis.
896
bddd7526
PP
897PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
898
6bac1a9a
PP
899PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
900
552193f0
NM
901NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
902 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 903
1b587e48
TF
904TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
905 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
906
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8c07b69f
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908Exim version 4.74
909-----------------
910
911TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
912 consequences so log it to the panic log.
913
c0ea85ab
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914TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
915 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
916
0761d44e
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917TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
918
0a349494
PP
919DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
920 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
921 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
922
923PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
924 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
925 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
926
fea24b2e
PP
927PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
928 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
929 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
930 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
931
6545de78
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932PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
933 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
934 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
935 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
936
1670ef10
PP
937PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
938 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
939 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
940 arbitrary files.
941
c0886197
PP
942PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
943 (Wolfgang Breyha)
944
b7487bce
PP
945PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
946 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
947 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
948 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
949 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
950
8c07b69f 951
97fd1e48 952Exim version 4.73
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954
955PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
956 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
957 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
958
6901c596
PP
959PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
960 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
961
a8c8d6b5
JJ
962JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
963
77bb000f
PP
964PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
965
a29e5231
PP
966PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
967
ec5a0394 968PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 969
55c75993
PP
970PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
971
453a6645 972PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
973 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
974 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
975 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
976
8544e77a
PP
977PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
978 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
979 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
980 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
981 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 982
83e029d5
PP
983PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
984
ed7f7860
PP
985PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
986
7d9f747b
PP
987PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
988
4b2241d2
PP
989PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
990
10385c15
PP
991PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
992
dbc4b90d
PP
993PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
994
532be449
PP
995PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
996
6a8de854 997PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
998 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
999 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1000
5dc43717
JJ
1001JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1002
1003JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1004 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1005
3346ab01
PP
1006PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1007 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1008
491fab4c
PP
1009PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1010 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1011 Notification from John Horne.
1012
13eb9497
PP
1013PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1014 compatible.
1015
1016PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1017 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1018 it normally works.
1019
7f36d675
DW
1020DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1021 access.
1022
c1d94452
DW
1023DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1024 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1025 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1026
e2f5dc15
DW
1027DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1028 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1029 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1030 configuration file.
1031
cd25e41d
DW
1032DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1033 option (effectively making it always true).
1034
261dc43e
DW
1035DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1036 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1037
fa32850b
DW
1038DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1039 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1040
79d4bc3d
PP
1041PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1042 run-time user, instead of root.
1043
43236f35 1044PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1045 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1046
fb08281f
DW
1047DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1048 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1049 arguments.
3346ab01 1050
74935b98
DW
1051DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1052 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1053 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1054
90b6341f
DW
1055DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1056
57730b52
ML
1057NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1058
66581d1e 1059
465e92cf
JJ
1060Exim version 4.72
1061-----------------
1062
453a6645
PP
1063JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1064 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1065 typos
465e92cf 1066
453a6645
PP
1067JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1068 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1069 (Finput)
edae0343 1070
9bd3e22c
NM
1071NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1072 Patch from Alain Williams
1073
bb576ff7
NM
1074NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1075
5a1a5845
NM
1076NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1077 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1078
981a9fad
NM
1079NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1080 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1081
7fc497ee
NM
1082NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1083
1a41defa
JJ
1084JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1085
a466095c 1086NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1087 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1088
94a6bd0b
NM
1089TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1090
1091TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1092
1093MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1094 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1095 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1096
c1b141a8
NM
1097NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1098 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1099
b26eacf1 1100NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1101 Patch by Simon Arlott
1102
179c5980 1103PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1104 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1105
9bd3e22c 1106
7c6d71af
NM
1107Exim version 4.71
1108-----------------
1109
7d9f747b 1110TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1111
f013fb92
NM
1112NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1113
0eb8eedd
NM
1114NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1115
663ee6d9
NM
1116NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1117
177ebd9b
NM
1118NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1119
7c6d71af 1120
210f147e
NM
1121Exim version 4.70
1122-----------------
1123
cdd3bb85 1124TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1125 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1126
1127TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1128 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1129 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1130
1131TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1132 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1133 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1134
1135TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1136 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1137
210f147e
NM
1138NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1139 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1140 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1141 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1142
deafd5b3
NM
1143NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1144 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1145 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1146
089793a4
TF
1147TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1148
5f16ca82
TF
1149TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1150
dae9d94e 1151NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1152 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1153
7d9f747b 1154NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1155
06864c44
TF
1156TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1157 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1158 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1159 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1160
65a7d8c3 1161NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1162 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1163
23510047 1164TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1165
7d9f747b 1166NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1167
7d8eec3a 1168NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1169 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1170
89dec7b6
TF
1171TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1172 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1173
a99de90c
TF
1174TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1175 that they are available at delivery time.
1176
e2803e40
TF
1177TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1178
7199e1ee
TF
1179TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1180 incoming_port log selectors.
1181
e276e04b
TF
1182TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1183 setting expands to an empty string.
1184
ce552449 1185NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1186 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1187
e765a0f1 1188NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1189 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1190
4f054c63 1191NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1192 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1193
7d9f747b
PP
1194NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1195 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1196
7d9f747b
PP
1197NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1198 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1199
b52bc06e 1200NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1201 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1202
447de4b0
NM
1203NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1204
4c69d561 1205NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1206 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1207
d5c39246 1208NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1209 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1210
0b23848a
TK
1211TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1212
8f3414a1 1213NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1214 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1215
fb6f955d
NM
1216NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1217
1218NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1219
7d9f747b
PP
1220NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1221 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1222
7d9f747b
PP
1223NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1224 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1225
7d9f747b
PP
1226NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1227 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1228
7d9f747b
PP
1229NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1230 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1231
7d9f747b
PP
1232NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1233 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1234
7d9f747b
PP
1235NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1236 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1237
7d9f747b
PP
1238NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1239 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1240
7d9f747b 1241NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1242 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1243
7d9f747b 1244NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1245
7d9f747b
PP
1246NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1247 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1248
7d9f747b 1249NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1250
7d9f747b 1251NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1252
7d9f747b 1253NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1254
7d9f747b 1255NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1256
17792b53 1257NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1258 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1259
7d9f747b
PP
1260NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1261 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1262
91576cec 1263NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1264 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1265
7d9f747b
PP
1266NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1267 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1268
7d9f747b 1269NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1270
7d9f747b 1271NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1272
7d9f747b 1273NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1274
7d9f747b 1275NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1276
deafd5b3 1277
47db1125
NM
1278Exim version 4.69
1279-----------------
1280
4b3504d0
TK
1281TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1282 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1283 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1284
1285 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1286 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1287 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1288 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1289 build errors in sieve.c.
1290
81ea09ca
NM
1291NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1292 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1293 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1294
f13cddcb
SC
1295SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1296
7d9f747b 1297NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1298
7d9f747b 1299NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1300
7d9f747b 1301NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1302
1303
eb4c0de6
PH
1304Exim version 4.68
1305-----------------
1306
1307PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1308
6a3bceb1
PH
1309PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1310 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1311 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1312 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1313 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1314 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1315 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1316 for iplsearch lookups.
1317
1318 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1319 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1320 previously such lookups could never work.
1321
1322 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1323 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1324 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1325
2e30fa9d
TK
1326TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1327 version.
1328
0806a9c5
MH
1329MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1330 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1331 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1332 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1333 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1334 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1335
ae276964
TK
1336TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1337 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1338
0f2cbd1b
MH
1339MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1340 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1341 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1342 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1343 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1344 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1345
2b85bce7
PH
1346PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1347 local_scan API.
1348
93655c46
PH
1349PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1350
6c512171
PH
1351PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1352 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1353 encrypted.
1354
1355PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1356 by clients under certain conditions.
1357
aa6dc513
PH
1358PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1359 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1360
a96603a0
PH
1361PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1362
8f240103
PH
1363PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1364 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1365
1366PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1367
d677b2f2
PH
1368PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1369
d52120f2
PH
1370PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1371
64f2600a
PH
1372PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1373 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1374
8669f003
PH
1375PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1376
a4dc33a8
PH
1377PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1378 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1379
d6a60c0f
PH
1380PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1381
8f128379
PH
1382PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1383
8932dffe
PH
1384PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1385 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1386 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1387 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1388
ddea74fa 1389PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1390 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1391 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1392
ddea74fa 1393PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1394 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1395
ddea74fa
PH
1396PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1397
ce9f225c
PH
1398PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1399
19897d52
PH
1400PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1401
bc64a74d
PH
1402PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1403 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1404 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1405
eb4c0de6 1406
b4ed4da0
PH
1407Exim version 4.67
1408-----------------
1409
22ad45c9
MH
1410MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1411 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1412 Jan Srzednicki.
1413
b4ed4da0
PH
1414PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1415 issue a MAIL command.
1416
431b7361
PH
1417PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1418
1419 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1420
1421 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1422 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1423 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1424 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1425 item. This has been fixed.
1426
1427PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1428 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1429
83da1223
PH
1430PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1431 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1432
54fc8428
PH
1433PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1434 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1435 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1436
34c5e8dd
SC
1437SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1438
bbe15da8
PH
1439PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1440 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1441 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1442 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1443 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1444
0e8a9471
MH
1445MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1446 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1447 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1448
f0872424
PH
1449PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1450 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1451 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1452 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1453
b01dd148
PH
1454PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1455
6bf342e1
PH
1456PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1457
273f34d0
PH
1458PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1459 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1460 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1461 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1462 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1463
cf8b11a5
PH
1464PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1465
41c7c167
PH
1466PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1467 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1468 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1469 values).
1470
9c57cbc0
PH
1471PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1472
f3f065bb
PH
1473PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1474
047bdd8c
PH
1475PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1476
0ce9abe6
PH
1477PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1478
0e22dfd1
PH
1479PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1480
4c590bd1
PH
1481PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1482 no_callout_flush is set.
1483
09945f1e
PH
1484PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1485 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1486 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1487 fixed.
1488
c51b8e75
PH
1489PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1490
e28326d8
PH
1491PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1492 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1493 other ACL rejections are.
1494
75b1493f
PH
1495PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1496 with slight modification.
1497
7c5214ec
PH
1498PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1499 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1500
4311097e
PH
1501PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1502 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1503 connection.
1504
29f89cad
PH
1505PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1506 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1507
5e687460
SC
1508SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1509
c3611384
PH
1510PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1511 expansion side effects.
1512
5a11a7b4
PH
1513PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1514 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1515 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1516 be the same.
1517
0e20aff9
MH
1518MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1519 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1520 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1521
ca86f471
PH
1522PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1523 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1524 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1525 were accidentally chopped off.
1526
a14e5636
PH
1527PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1528 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1529 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1530 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1531 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1532 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1533 pipelining has not been advertised.
1534
ec95d1a6
PH
1535PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1536
42855d71
PH
1537PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1538 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1539 This has been fixed.
1540
57c2c631
PH
1541PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1542 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1543 reported on Solaris.
1544
58c01c94
PH
1545PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1546 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1547 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1548 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1549 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1550 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1551 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1552
dee5a20a
PH
1553PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1554 cpus.
1555
d2ee6114
PH
1556PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1557
b2d5182b
PH
1558PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1559
79749a79
PH
1560PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1561 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1562 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1563 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1564 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1565 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1566
c456d9bb
PH
1567PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1568 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1569 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1570 host_all_ignored option.
1571
cd9868ec
PH
1572PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1573 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1574 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1575 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1576 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1577 is what is supposed to happen).
1578
ebeaf996
PH
1579PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1580 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1581 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1582 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1583 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1584 uses the Exim user.
1585
2679d413
PH
1586PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1587 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1588 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1589 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1590 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1591 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1592 users.
1593
84024b72
PH
1594PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1595
8005d38e
SC
1596SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1597 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1598 (Jez Hancock).
1599 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1600 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1601
3298c6c6
SC
1602SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1603
a43a27c5
PH
1604PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1605
58eb016e 1606PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1607 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1608 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1609 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1610 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1611 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1612 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1613 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1614 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1615 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1616 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1617
b43a74ea
PH
1618PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1619 advertised in response to EHLO.
1620
b4ed4da0 1621
5dd1517f
PH
1622Exim version 4.66
1623-----------------
1624
1625PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1626 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1627
1628 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1629 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1630
1631 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1632 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1633 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1634
1635 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1636 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1637 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1638 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1639 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1640
1641
93cfa765
TK
1642Exim version 4.65
1643-----------------
1644
1645TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1646 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1647 versions. (#438)
1648
d6066548
MH
1649MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1650 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1651 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1652
4362ff0d
PH
1653PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1654 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1655 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1656 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1657 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1658 rather than extend the field.
1659
93cfa765 1660
944e9e9c
TF
1661Exim version 4.64
1662-----------------
aa41d2de 1663
21d74bd9
TK
1664TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1665 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1666 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1667 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1668 these files.
1669
1670TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1671 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1672 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1673
1674TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1675 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1676 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1677
1678TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1679 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1680 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1681 in the field name.
1682
2b1c6e3a
PH
1683PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1684 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1685 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1686 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1687 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1688 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1689 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1690 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1691 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1692 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1693 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1694
1f872c80
PH
1695PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1696 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1697
1698PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1699 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1700 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1701 ignores EPIPE as well.
1702
d203e649
PH
1703PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1704 (quoted-printable decoding).
1705
cc2ed8f7 1706PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1707 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1708
ddfcd446
PH
1709PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1710
d45b1de8
PH
1711PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1712
1713PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1714
38a0a95f 1715PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1716 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1717
a2405d83
JJ
1718JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1719 in 4.64-PH/09.
1720
1721JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1722 miscellaneous code fixes
1723
6ea85e9a
PH
1724PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1725 rejections.
1726
26da7e20
PH
1727PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1728 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1729 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1730 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1731 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1732 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1733 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1734 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1735
14aa5a05 1736PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1737 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1738 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1739 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1740 function.
1741 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1742 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1743 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1744 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1745 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1746 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1747 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1748 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1749 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1750
ff75a1f7
PH
1751PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1752 decoding.
1753
e6f6568e
PH
1754PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1755 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1756 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1757 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1758 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1759 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1760 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1761 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1762
d6f6e0dc
PH
1763PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1764 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1765 list.
1766
322050c2
PH
1767PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1768 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1769 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1770 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1771 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1772 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1773 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1774 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1775 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1776 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1777 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1778 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1779 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1780
08955dd3
PH
1781PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1782 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1783 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1784 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1785 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1786 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1787 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1788
1eccaa59
PH
1789PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1790 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1791 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1792 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1793 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1794 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1795 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1796 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1797 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1798 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1799
602e59e5
PH
1800PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1801 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1802 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1803 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1804 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1805
411ef850
PH
1806PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1807 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1808 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1809 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1810 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1811 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1812 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1813
7befa435
PH
1814PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1815 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1816 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1817 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1818 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1819 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1820 been verified.
1821
48da4259 1822PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1823 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1824 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1825 and authorization.)
1826
48da4259
PH
1827PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1828 if any retry times were supplied.
1829
d1d5595c
PH
1830PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1831 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1832 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1833
0ef732d9
PH
1834PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1835
328895cc
PH
1836PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1837
fd700877
PH
1838PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1839 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1840 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1841 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1842 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1843 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1844
8dce1a6f
PH
1845PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1846 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1847
17af4a17
PH
1848PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1849 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1850 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1851
1852PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1853 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1854 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1855 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1856 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1857 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1858 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1859 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1860 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1861
1862 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1863 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1864 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1865 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1866 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1867 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1868 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1869 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1870 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1871
1872 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1873 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1874 hammering the server.
1875
c1114884
PH
1876PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1877 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1878
7a0743eb
PH
1879PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1880
0d85fa3f
PH
1881PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1882 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1883 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1884
1bf43b78
PH
1885PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1886 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1887 one case where this was not true.
1888
520de300
PH
1889PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1890 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1891 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1892 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1893 fails.
1894
48c7f9e2
PH
1895PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1896 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1897 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1898 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1899 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1900 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1901 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1902 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1903 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1904 smtp transport.
1905
99ea1c86
PH
1906PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1907 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1908 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1909 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1910
a2042e78
PH
1911PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1912 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1913
4fbcfc2e
PH
1914PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1915 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1916 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1917
aa41d2de
PH
1918PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1919
af561417
PH
1920PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1921
3cc66b45
PH
1922PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1923
194cc0e4
PH
1924PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1925 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1926 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1927 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1928
a401ddaa
PH
1929PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1930 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1931
4e88a19f
PH
1932PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1933 be meaningful with "accept".
1934
d7d7b289
SC
1935SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1936 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1937
1938SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1939 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1940 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1941
1942SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1943 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1944 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1945 there is data to show.
1946 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1947
1948SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1949 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1950 as well as the number of messages.
1951
1952SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1953 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1954 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1955
1956SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1957 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1958 have a flag are now skipped.
1959
1960SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1961 Added the -emptyok flag.
1962
1963SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1964 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1965
0ea2a468
JJ
1966JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1967 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1968 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1969
1970JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1971 match 4.64-PH/13
1972
1973JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1974 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1975
1976JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1977
1978JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1979 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1980
8a10f5a4
PH
1981PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1982
30e18802
PH
1983PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1984 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1985 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1986 contravention of the specifications.
1987
55728a4f
PH
1988PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1989 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1990 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1991
d7837193
PH
1992PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1993 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1994 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1995
87054a31
PH
1996PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1997
ea2c01d2
MH
1998MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1999 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2000 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2001 some point in the past.
2002
e4fa6968
PH
2003PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2004 transport during callout processing was broken.
2005
56f5d9bd
PH
2006PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2007 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2008
922e1c28
PH
2009PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2010 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2011
21eb6e72
PH
2012PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2013 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2014
a0540757
PH
2015PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2016
944e9e9c 2017
478be7b0
SC
2018Exim version 4.63
2019-----------------
2020
2021SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2022 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2023
2024SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2025 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2026 there is data to show.
2027 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2028
2029SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2030 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2031
2b965a65
TF
2032TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2033 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2034
45b91596
PH
2035TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2036 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2037
c59f5781
TF
2038TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2039 submissions from trusted users.
2040
90fc3069
TF
2041TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2042 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2043
6083aca0
TF
2044TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2045 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2046 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2047 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2048 there is now a framework to start from.
2049
765b530f
PH
2050PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2051 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2052 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2053
4e167a8c
PH
2054PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2055
4608d683
PH
2056PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2057
b8dc3e4a
PH
2058PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2059
5418e93b
PH
2060PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2061 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2062 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2063
b4a9bda2
PH
2064PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2065 libradius.
2066
45b91596
PH
2067PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2068 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2069 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2070
5547e2c5
PH
2071PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2072 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2073 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2074 its arguments.
2075
dbcef0ea
PH
2076PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2077 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2078 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2079 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2080 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2081
25257489
PH
2082PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2083 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2084
c816d124
PH
2085PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2086
a9ccd69a
PH
2087PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2088 operations in malware.c.
2089
75fa1910
PH
2090PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2091 signatures.
2092
a7d7aa58
PH
2093PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2094 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2095 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2096 all.
2097
42119b09
PH
2098PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2099 statements to "add_header".
2100
41609df5
PH
2101PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2102 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2103
a5bd321b
PH
2104PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2105 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2106 latter.
2107
e85a7ad5 2108PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2109 so that it is now:
2110
e85a7ad5
PH
2111 ${if or { \
2112 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2113 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2114 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2115 }{no}{yes}}
2116
e85a7ad5
PH
2117 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2118 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2119
d8fe1c03
PH
2120PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2121 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2122
16282d2b
PH
2123PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2124 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2125 any possible encoding problems.
2126
35d40a98
PH
2127PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2128 but not after initializing Perl.
2129
034d99ab
PH
2130PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2131 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2132 apparently, which is not desirable.
2133
6ec97b1b
PH
2134PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2135 queries.
2136
e22ca4ac
JJ
2137JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2138 --not options
2139
2140JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2141
33d73e3b
PH
2142PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2143 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2144 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2145 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2146
9ecb03f3
PH
2147PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2148 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2149 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2150
084efe8d
PH
2151PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2152 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2153 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2154 0.12.
2155
366fc9f0
PH
2156PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2157 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2158 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2159 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2160 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2161
c59f5781 2162
c887c79e
TF
2163Exim version 4.62
2164-----------------
2165
2166TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2167 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2168
1cce3af8
PH
2169PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2170 patch).
2171
afb3eaaf
PH
2172PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2173 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2174 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2175 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2176 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2177 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2178 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2179 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2180 451 error is used.
2181
e173618b
PH
2182PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2183
dd16e114
PH
2184PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2185 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2186 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2187
f7fd3850
PH
2188PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2189 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2190 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2191 odd errors.
2192
d87df92c
PH
2193PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2194 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2195
7e9f683d
PH
2196PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2197 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2198 option (which defaults to 0600).
2199
bfad5236
PH
2200PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2201
01c490df
PH
2202PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2203 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2204 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2205 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2206 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2207 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2208 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2209
d6629cdc
PH
2210PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2211
1cce3af8 2212
214e2000
PH
2213Exim version 4.61
2214-----------------
2215
2216PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2217 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2218 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2219 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2220 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2221 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2222 addresses as local.
2223
f9daeae0
PH
2224PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2225 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2226
7e66e54d
PH
2227PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2228
c8ea1597
PH
2229PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2230 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2231 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2232 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2233 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2234 grumble.
2235
911f6fde
PH
2236PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2237 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2238
47ca6d6c
PH
2239PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2240 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2241 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2242 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2243 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2244
ed0e9820
PH
2245PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2246 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2247 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2248 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2249
eff37e47
PH
2250PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2251 be the same on different OS.
2252
1921d2ea
PH
2253PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2254 testing.
2255
b3f69ca8
JJ
2256JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2257 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2258
2259JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2260 in 4.61-PH/06
2261
424a1c63
PH
2262PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2263 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2264 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2265 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2266 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2267 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2268 bounce message.
2269
7a100415
PH
2270PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2271 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2272 when Exim was called.
2273
19b9dc85
PH
2274PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2275 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2276
309bd837
PH
2277PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2278 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2279 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2280 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2281
59e82a2a
PH
2282PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2283 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2284 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2285 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2286 changes:
2287
2288 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2289 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2290 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2291
2292 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2293 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2294 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2295
9edc04ce
PH
2296PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2297 feature).
2298
1349e1e5
PH
2299PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2300 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2301 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2302 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2303 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2304 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2305 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2306 values from the SRV records were lost.
2307
ea49d0e1
PH
2308PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2309 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2310 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2311
064a94c9
PH
2312PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2313 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2314 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2315
727071f8
PH
2316PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2317 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2318 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2319 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2320 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2321 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2322 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2323 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2324 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2325 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2326
f78eb7c6
PH
2327PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2328 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2329 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2330
21c28500
PH
2331PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2332 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2333
2334PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2335 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2336 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2337 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2338 is given.
2339
1688f43b
PH
2340PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2341 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2342 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2343
2344PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2345 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2346 PH/23 above applies.
2347
9675b384
PH
2348PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2349 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2350 (for which there is an explicit test).
2351
6a3f1455
PH
2352PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2353
dac79d3e
PH
2354PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2355 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2356 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2357 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2358 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2359
5977a0b3
PH
2360PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2361 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2362 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2363 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2364
c91535f3
PH
2365PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2366 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2367 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2368
0d46a8c8
PH
2369PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2370
278c6e6c
PH
2371PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2372
2cbb4081
PH
2373PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2374 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2375 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2376
3eef829e
PH
2377PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2378 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2379 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2380 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2381 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2382
1ab95fa6
PH
2383PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2384 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2385 the message gets confusing).
2386
230205fc
PH
2387PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2388 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2389 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2390 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2391
75e0e026
PH
2392PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2393 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2394 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2395 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2396 same order.
2397
2398PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2399 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2400 the different processes.
2401
145396a6
PH
2402PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2403
3cd34f13
PH
2404PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2405
11121d3d
JJ
2406JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2407 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2408
2409JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2410 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2411
2412JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2413 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2414 messages matching specified criteria.
2415
8def5aaf
PH
2416PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2417
929ba01c
PH
2418PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2419 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2420
2632889e
PH
2421PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2422 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2423 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2424 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2425 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2426 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2427 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2428 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2429 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2430 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2431
944a9c55
PH
2432PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2433 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2434 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2435
4a23603b
PH
2436PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2437
4730f942
PH
2438PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2439 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2440 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2441 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2442 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2443 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2444 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2445 the variable.
2446
30dba1e6
PH
2447PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2448 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2449
382afc6b
PH
2450PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2451
a86229cf
PH
2452PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2453
50c99ba6
PH
2454PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2455
d35e429d
PH
2456PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2457 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2458 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2459 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2460 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2461 size of the count of files.
2462
f90d018c
PH
2463PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2464
75def545
PH
2465PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2466 used in LMTP mode:
2467
2468 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2469 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2470 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2471 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2472
2473 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2474 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2475 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2476
2477PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2478 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2479 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2480 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2481 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2482
c46782ef
PH
2483PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2484 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2485
71fafd95
PH
2486PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2487 will now be deprecated.
2488
2c5db4fd
PH
2489PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2490
9cf6b11a
JJ
2491JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2492 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2493 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2494
2495JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2496 with very large, slow to parse queues
2497
2498JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2499
2500JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2501
898d150f
PH
2502PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2503 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2504 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2505 SMTP output lines.
2506
46218253
PH
2507PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2508 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2509 Sieve code now uses this.
2510
e97957bc
PH
2511PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2512 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2513
81e509d7
PH
2514PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2515 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2516
3d240ff7
PH
2517PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2518
b37c4101
PH
2519PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2520 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2521 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2522 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2523 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2524
79378e0f
PH
2525PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2526 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2527 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2528 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2529
e49c7bb4
PH
2530PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2531
d114ec46
PH
2532PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2533
f3d7df6c
PH
2534PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2535 is preferred over IPv4.
2536
715ab376
PH
2537PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2538 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2539 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2540 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2541 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2542 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2543 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2544
6b31b150
PH
2545PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2546 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2547 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2548
2549PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2550
d515a917
PH
2551PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2552 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2553 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2554 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2555 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2556 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2557 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2558 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2559 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2560 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2561 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2562
9b8fadde
PH
2563PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2564 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2565 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2566
214e2000 2567
5de37277
PH
2568Exim version 4.60
2569-----------------
2570
cc38ddbf
PH
2571PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2572
2573 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2574 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2575
2576 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2577 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2578 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2579
72fdd6ae
PH
2580PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2581
2582 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2583 not a single digit.
2584
2585 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2586 string.
2587
2588 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2589 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2590 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2591 silly things.
2592
2593 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2594 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2595
2596 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2597 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2598
cb741023
PH
2599PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2600 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2601 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2602
f174f16e
PH
2603PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2604 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2605
c25242d7
PH
2606PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2607 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2608
2609 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2610
2611 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2612 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2613 this:
2614
2615 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2616
82c19f95
PH
2617PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2618 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2619 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2620 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2621 identical. For example:
2622
2623 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2624
2625 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2626 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2627 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2628
d7ffbc12
PH
2629PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2630 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2631 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2632 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2633
9f526266
PH
2634PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2635 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2636 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2637 message.
2638
87fcc8b9
PH
2639PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2640
2641 o fixes some comments
2642 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2643 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2644 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2645 and documents the missing references header update
2646
2647 and most important:
2648
2649 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2650 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2651 result)
2652
456682f5
PH
2653PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2654 Electronic Mail") by including:
2655
2656 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2657
2658 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2659 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2660 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2661 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2662 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2663
2664 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2665
2666 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2667
2668 The auto-replied keyword:
2669
2670 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2671 message by an automatic process,
2672
2673 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2674
2675 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2676 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2677
2678 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2679 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2680 other messages.
2681
3e46c1aa
PH
2682PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2683 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2684
49826d12
PH
2685PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2686
eba0c039
PH
2687PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2688 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2689 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2690
a0d6ba8a
PH
2691PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2692 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2693 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2694
f0917727
PH
2695PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2696 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2697 and treats the condition as false.
2698
096fee00
PH
2699PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2700
024bd3c2
PH
2701PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2702 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2703 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2704 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2705 not changing the active code.
2706
2707 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2708 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2709
2710 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2711 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2712
df199fec
PH
2713PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2714 (Bugzilla #53).
2715
d27f1df3
PH
2716PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2717 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2718 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2719 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2720 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2721 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2722 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2723 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2724 the text comparison.
2725
96776534
PH
2726PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2727 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2728 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2729 The same fix has been applied.
2730
5de37277 2731
9a799bc0
PH
2732Exim version 4.54
2733-----------------
2734
2735PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2736 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2737 It now does.
2738
99a4b039
PH
2739PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2740 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2741
2742PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2743
4b233853
PH
2744PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2745 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2746 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2747 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2748 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2749
8857ccfd
PH
2750TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2751 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2752 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2753 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2754 or /domain=).
2755
433a2980
PH
2756PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2757 testing suite.
2758
3e46c1aa 2759
9a799bc0 2760
e3a311ba
TK
2761Exim version 4.53
2762-----------------
2763
2764TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2765 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2766
13b685f9
PH
2767PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2768
395ff96d
PH
2769PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2770
5b68f6e4
PH
2771PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2772 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2773 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2774
1ab52c69
PH
2775PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2776 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2777 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2778
b07e6aa3
PH
2779PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2780 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2781 operating systems.
2782
254e032f
PH
2783PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2784 ${stat: expansion item.
2785
3af76a81
PH
2786PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2787 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2788
2548ba04
PH
2789PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2790 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2791 file for comments.
2792
b6c6011d
PH
2793PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2794
cf39cf57
PH
2795PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2796 setting.
2797
f1513293
PH
2798PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2799 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2800
727549a4
PH
2801TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2802
af46795e
PH
2803PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2804 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2805 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2806 the end of the subprocess.
2807
d7b47fd0
PH
2808PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2809 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2810 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2811 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2812 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2813
ee744174
JJ
2814JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2815
b582ab87
PH
2816TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2817
41a13e0a
PH
2818PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2819 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2820
f625cc5a
PH
2821PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2822
2823PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2824
21f7af35
PH
2825PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2826 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2827 HP-UX compiler.
2828
31480e42
PH
2829PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2830
2d280592
PH
2831PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2832 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2833 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2834
7cd1141b
PH
2835PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2836 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2837
2838PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2839 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2840
750af86e
PH
2841PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2842 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2843
2844 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2845 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2846
2847 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2848 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2849 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2850 contributed by a Radius user.
2851
2852PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2853 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2854
4304270b
TK
2855TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2856 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2857
750af86e
PH
2858PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2859 available.
2860
64ffc24f
PH
2861PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2862 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2863 received.
2864
5dd9625b
PH
2865PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2866 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2867 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2868 header lines when this was not necessary.
2869
5591031b
PH
2870PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2871
ba18e66a
PH
2872PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2873 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2874 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2875 exists".
2876
9cec981f
PH
2877PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2878 -bV or -d is used.
2879
aa2b5c79
PH
2880PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2881 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2882 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2883 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2884
48a53b7f
PH
2885PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2886
1c59d63b
PH
2887PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2888
671012da
TK
2889TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2890
1509d3a8
PH
2891PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2892
2893PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2894 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2895 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2896 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2897 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2898 settings.
2899
2900PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2901
2fe1a124
PH
2902PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2903 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2904 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2905 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2906 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2907 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2908 which is clearly wrong.
2909
8800895a
PH
2910PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2911
ccfdb010
PH
2912PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2913 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2914 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2915 subsequently added.
2916
1130bfb0
PH
2917PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2918 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2919
ebcb507f
PH
2920PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2921
c35e155c
PH
2922PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2923 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2924
95d1f782
PH
2925PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2926 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2927
fd6de02e
PH
2928PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2929 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2930
58de37c5
PH
2931PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2932 recipients, not senders.
2933
261cf466
TF
2934TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2935 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2936
3ee512ff
PH
2937PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2938
e08c430f
PH
2939PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2940
bef5a11f
PH
2941PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2942 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2943 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2944 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2945
7546de58
TF
2946TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2947
e5d5a95f
TF
2948TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2949 clock is set back in time.
2950
2e88a017
TF
2951TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2952 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2953
a5f65aa4
TF
2954TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2955 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2956
e7726cbf
PH
2957PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2958 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2959 (see PH/47 above).
2960
a7fdad5b
TF
2961TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2962 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2963 header rewrites.
2964
6af56900
PH
2965PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2966 type ("H").
2967
0925ede6
PH
2968PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2969
66afa403
TF
2970TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2971 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2972 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2973
0154e85a
TF
2974TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2975 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2976 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2977 helo verification defer as a failure.
2978
16f12c76
PH
2979PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2980 actual error message.
2981
bbe902f0 2982
e5a9dba6
PH
2983Exim version 4.52
2984-----------------
2985
2986TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2987
22c3b60b
PH
2988PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2989 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2990 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2991 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2992
06a9b4b5
PH
2993TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2994
c1ac6996
PH
2995PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2996 can still be requested.
2997
9c7a242c
PH
2998PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2999 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3000 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3001 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3002
87ba3f5f
PH
3003TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3004 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3005 circumstances, but probably never did.
3006
3007PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3008 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3009 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3010 in the header line.
3011
29aba418
TF
3012TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3013
fe0dab11
TF
3014TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3015 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3016
11d337a4
TK
3017TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3018
3019TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3020
415c8f3b
PH
3021PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3022 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3023 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3024 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3025 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3026 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3027
958541e9
PH
3028PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3029 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3030 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3031 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3032 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3033 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3034
c206415f
TK
3035TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3036 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3037
2a4be8f9
PH
3038PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3039 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3040
1cba11c5
SC
3041SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3042 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3043
3044SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3045
3046SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3047
3048SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3049
3050SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3051
3052SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3053
3054SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3055
1005d00e
TK
3056TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3057
3058TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3059 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3060 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3061
3062TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3063 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3064 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3065 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3066
9b4768fa
PH
3067PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3068 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3069 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3070
3071PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3072 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3073 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3074 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3075
0d7eb84a
PH
3076PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3077 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3078 to be made).
3079
3080PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3081 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3082 should work with maildirs and everything.
3083
40727bee
TK
3084TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3085 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3086
554d2369
TF
3087TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3088 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3089
1f922db1
PH
3090PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3091 function for BDB 4.3.
3092
ef213c3b
PH
3093PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3094
8ac170f3
PH
3095PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3096 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3097 involved.
3098
b1c749bb
PH
3099PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3100 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3101 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3102 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3103 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3104 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3105
4aac9b49
PH
3106PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3107 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3108 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3109 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3110 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3111 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3112 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3113 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3114
294520c8
TK
3115TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3116 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3117 details.
3118
5bd022fe
PH
3119PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3120 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3121
90e9ce59
PH
3122PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3123 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3124 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3125 test. It is now used for both.
3126
5ea81592
PH
3127PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3128 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3129 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3130 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3131 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3132 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3133
c6c2dc1d
PH
3134PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3135 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3136 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3137 string_vformat().
3138
fffffe4c
PH
3139PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3140 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3141 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3142
9a26b6b2
PH
3143PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3144 experimental DomainKeys support:
3145
3146 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3147 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3148 the control was given.
3149
3150 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3151
4aee0225
PH
3152PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3153
32d668a5
PH
3154PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3155
8187c3f3
PH
3156PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3157 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3158 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3159 db.h files).
3160
ff790e47 3161PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3162 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3163 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3164 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3165 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3166 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3167 course.
ff790e47 3168
5417f6d1
PH
3169PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3170 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3171 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3172 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3173 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3174 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3175
59cf8544
PH
3176PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3177 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3178 do -d+all out of habit.
3179
e7ad8a65
PH
3180PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3181 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3182 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3183
ade42478
PH
3184PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3185 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3186 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3187 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3188 record types that Exim uses.
3189
182ad5cf
PH
3190PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3191 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3192 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3193 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3194 non-existent file that was broken.
3195
b0d9fc80
TK
3196TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3197 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3198
3199TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3200 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3201 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3202
3203TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3204
47c7a64a
PH
3205PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3206 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3207 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3208 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3209 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3210 same time.
3211
a388bce4
SC
3212SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3213 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3214 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3215 at a slight CPU cost.
3216
3217SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3218 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3219
3220SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3221 by Marc Sherman.
3222
0793e4ed
SC
3223SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3224
c58b88df
PH
3225PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3226 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3227
e7ad8a65 3228
7982096b
PH
3229Exim version 4.51
3230-----------------
3231
1a46a8c5
PH
3232TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3233 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3234
2f079f46 3235TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3236
3237TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3238
3239PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3240 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3241
3242PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3243 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3244 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3245 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3246 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3247 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3248 file.
3249
3250PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3251 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3252 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3253 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3254 these two options.
3255
3256PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3257 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3258 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3259 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3260 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3261 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3262 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3263 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3264
3265PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3266 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3267
3268PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3269 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3270 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3271 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3272 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3273 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3274
3275PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3276 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3277 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3278 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3279
3280PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3281 Finch).
3282
3283PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3284 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3285
49c2d5ea
PH
3286PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3287 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3288 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3289 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3290 message.
49c2d5ea 3291
bf759a8b
PH
3292PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3293
83364d30
PH
3294PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3295 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3296
7999bbd7
PH
3297PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3298 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3299 to what was transported.)
3300
7dbf77c9
PH
3301TF/01 Added $received_time.
3302
74e0617f
PH
3303PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3304 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3305 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3306 spamd_address settings.
3307
2f079f46
PH
3308PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3309 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3310 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3311 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3312 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3313
8c841523
PH
3314PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3315
7766a4f0
PH
3316PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3317 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3318 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3319 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3320 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3321
8b417f2c
PH
3322PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3323 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3324
901f42cb
PH
3325PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3326 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3327 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3328 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3329 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3330 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3331 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3332 for failure.
3333
f9b9210e
PH
3334PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3335 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3336 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3337 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3338 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3339 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3340 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3341 "input=".
3342
54cdb463
PH
3343PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3344
cf00dad6
PH
3345PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3346 driver and ACL definitions.
3347
acb1b346
PH
3348PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3349 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3350
c5ddb310
PH
3351PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3352 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3353 understands it better than I do:
3354
3355 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3356 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3357
3358 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3359 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3360 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3361 => three warnings about OTP not working
3362 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3363
3364 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3365 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3366 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3367 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3368 for each call.)
3369 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3370 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3371
3372 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3373 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3374 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3375
31619da6
PH
3376PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3377 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3378 specified.
3379
bebaf0fc
PH
3380PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3381 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3382 "Linux".
3383
475fe28a
PH
3384PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3385 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3386 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3387
3388 warn !verify = sender
3389 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3390
3391 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3392 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3393
7e8bec7a
PH
3394PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3395
3396 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3397 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3398
3399 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3400 nomenclature these days.)
3401
e4a89c47
PH
3402PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3403 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3404
5ca2a9a1
PH
3405PH/30 In these circumstances:
3406 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3407 . First host does not offer TLS;
3408 . First host accepts first address;
3409 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3410 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3411 . Second host accepts second address.
3412 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3413 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3414 address.
7e8bec7a 3415
c688b954
PH
3416PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3417 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3418 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3419 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3420 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3421
fed77020
PH
3422PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3423 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3424
7fe1560f
PH
3425PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3426 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3427
ebb6e6d5
PH
3428PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3429 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3430 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3431
9c4e8f60
PH
3432PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3433 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3434 overlooked.
3435
3436PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3437
d7174846
PH
3438PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3439 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3440 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3441 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3442 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3443 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3444 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3445
3446 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3447 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3448 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3449 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3450 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3451
3452 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3453 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3454 routed further.
3455
cfe75fc3
PH
3456PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3457 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3458 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3459 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3460 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3461 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3462
be22d70e
PH
3463PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3464
0612b098
PH
3465PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3466 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3467 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3468 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3469 printable escape sequences.
3470
2e0c1448
PH
3471PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3472 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3473 body only.
3474
447d236c
PH
3475PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3476 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3477 are as follows:
3478
3479 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3480 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3481 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3482 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3483 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3484
3485 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3486 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3487 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3488
d20976dc
PH
3489PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3490
f656d135
PH
3491PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3492 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3493 play with."
3494
2e2a30b4
PH
3495PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3496 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3497 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3498 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3499 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3500 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3501 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3502 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3503 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3504 the log output.
3505
9176e9f0
PH
3506PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3507 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3508 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3509 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3510 "make".
3511
7982096b 3512
bbe902f0
PH
3513A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3514----------------------------------------
3515
3516Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3517changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3518needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3519in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3520that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3521release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3522from 4.43.
3523
3524I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
35254.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3526those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3527historical information.
3528
3529
f7b63901 3530Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3531-----------------
3532
5fe762f6
PH
3533 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3534
139059f6 3535 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3536 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3537
7086e875
PH
3538 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3539 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3540 place.
3541
35af9f61
PH
3542 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3543 filter fails to execute.
3544
b668c215
PH
3545 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3546 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3547 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3548 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3549 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3550
a494b1e1
PH
3551 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3552
3553 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3554 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3555 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3556 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3557
c5fcb476
PH
3558 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3559 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3560 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3561 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3562 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3563
69358f02
PH
3564 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3565
5be20824
PH
356610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3567
eb2c0248
PH
356811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3569 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3570 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3571 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3572
2a3eea10
PH
357312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3574 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3575 sender verification.
3576
357713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3578 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3579
23c7ff99
PH
358014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3581
4deaf07d
PH
358215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3583 connection timeout.
3584
926e1192
PH
358516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3586 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3587
650edc6f
PH
358817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3589 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3590
2c7db3f5
PH
359118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3592 information about exactly what failed.
3593
3d235903
PH
359419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3595
7c7ad977
PH
359620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3597 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3598 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3599
981756db
PH
360021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3601 It is now set to "smtps".
3602
d4eb88df
PH
360322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3604 ignore_target_hosts.
3605
360623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3607 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3608 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3609 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3610 "[x.x.x.x]".
3611
7d468ab8
PH
361224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3613 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3614 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3615
361625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3617 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3618 wake it up if nothing else does.
3619
62c0818f
PH
362026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3621 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3622 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3623 end up negative.
3624
26034054
PH
362527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3626 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3627
af66f652
PH
362828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3629
90af77f4
PH
363029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3631 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3632 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3633 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3634 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3635 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3636 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3637 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3638
d8ef3577
PH
363930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3640 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3641 than one IP address.
3642
5cb8cbc6
PH
364331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3644 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3645 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3646 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3647
14702f5b
PH
364832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3649 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3650 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3651 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3652 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3653 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3654
063b1e99
PH
365533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3656 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3657 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3658 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3659
652e1b65
PH
366034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3661 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3662 respected.
3663
6f0c9a4f
PH
366435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3665 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3666 $sender_host_address.
3667
33397d19
PH
366836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3669 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3670 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3671 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3672 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3673 very small.
3674
7bb56e1f
PH
367537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3676
3677 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3678 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3679
ea3bc19b
PH
3680 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3681 just the host names, not the priorities.
3682
3683 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3684 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3685 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3686
ea3bc19b 3687 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3688 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3689
0bcb2a0e
PH
369038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3691 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3692 domain.
3693
2ac0e484
PH
369439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3695
4e1fde53
PH
369640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3697 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3698
de365ded
PH
369941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3700 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3701 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3702
f05da2e8
PH
370342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3704
d6453af2
PH
370543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3706
f7b63901
PH
370744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3708
370945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3710 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3711 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3712 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3713 because the tests only now provoked it.
3714
a444213a
PH
371546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3716 (this can affect the format of dates).
3717
0ec020ea
PH
371847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3719 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3720 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3721 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3722
b1206957
PH
372348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3724
372549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3726 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3727 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3728 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3729
26dd5a95
PH
373050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3731 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3732 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3733
343b2385
PH
373451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3735 autoreply.
3736
1c5466b9
PH
373752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3738 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3739 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3740 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3741 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3742 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3743 is going on).
3744
55ee9ee3
PH
374553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3746 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3747 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3748 the line.
3749
d38f8232
PH
375054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3751 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3752 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3753
3754 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3755 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3756 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3757 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3758 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3759 so I produce this patch..."
3760
3295e65b
PH
3761 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3762 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3763 is not defined.
3764
7102e136
PH
376555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3766 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3767 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3768 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3769 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3770
3ca0ba97
PH
377156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3772
c2bcbe20
PH
377357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3774 long debug lines gets shown.
3775
18ce445d
PH
377658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3777 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3778
1f5b4c3d
PH
377959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3780
3781 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3782 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3783 of $primary_hostname.
3784
b975ba52
PH
378560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3786 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3787 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3788 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3789 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3790 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3791 by change 4.50/55 above.
3792
3793 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3794 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3795 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3796 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3797 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3798 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3799 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3800
380161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3802 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3803 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3804 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3805
17ffcae7
PH
380662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3807 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3808
d95f9fdb
PH
380963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3810 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3811 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3812 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3813 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3814
86b8287f
PH
381564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3816 This has been fixed.
3817
60dc5e56
PH
381865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3819 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3820 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3821 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3822 the caching.)
3823
533244af
PH
382466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3825
a5a28604
PH
382667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3827 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3828 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3829 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3830
7e634d24
PH
383168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3832 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3833
3e11c26b
PH
383469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3835 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3836 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3837
6729cf78
PH
383870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3839 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3840 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3841 message there.
3842
00f00ca5
PH
384371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3844 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3845 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3846
c9bdd01c
PH
384772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3848 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3849 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3850 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3851
d43194df
PH
385273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3853 during host lookups.
3854
fe5b5d0b
PH
385574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3856 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3857
3858 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3859
76a2d7ba
PH
386075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3861 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3862 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3863 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3864 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3865 background.
3866
386776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3868 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3869
04f7d5b9
PH
387077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3871 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3872 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3873
bc60667e
PH
387478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3875
bb6e88ff
PH
387679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3877 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3878 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3879 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3880 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3881 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3882 process earlier.
3883
1e70f85b
PH
388480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3885 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3886 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3887 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3888 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3889
389081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3891 tables).
3892
4e01f9d6
PH
389382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3894
1ee1cef2
PH
389583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3896 "vacation" handling.
3897
6e2b4ccc
PH
389884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3899 OS variants using glibc.
3900
8e669ac1
PH
390185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3902
495ae4b0 3903
bbe902f0
PH
3904----------------------------------------------------
3905See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3906----------------------------------------------------
3907
3908
3909Exim version 4.44
3910-----------------
3911
3912 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3913 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3914 transport
3915
3916 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3917 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3918 place.
3919
3920 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3921 filter fails to execute.
3922
3923 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3924 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3925 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3926 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3927 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3928
3929 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3930 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3931 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3932 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3933
3934 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3935 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3936 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3937 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3938 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3939
3940 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3941
3942 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3943 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3944 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3945 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3946
3947 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3948 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3949 sender verification.
3950
395110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3952 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3953
395411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3955 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3956
395712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3958 ignore_target_hosts.
3959
396013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3961 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3962 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3963 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3964 "[x.x.x.x]".
3965
396614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3967 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3968 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3969
397015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3971 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3972 wake it up if nothing else does.
3973
397416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3975 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3976 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3977 end up negative.
3978
397917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3980 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3981
ea3a6f44 398218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3983
398419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3985 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3986 empty pattern.
3987
398820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3989 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3990 one IP address.
3991
ea3a6f44
NM
399221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3993 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3994 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3995 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3996 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3997 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3998
ea3a6f44
NM
399922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4000 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4001 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4002
400323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4004 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4005 $sender_host_address.
4006
400724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4008
ea3a6f44
NM
400925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4010 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4011 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4012
401326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4014 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4015
ea3a6f44
NM
401627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4017 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4018
ea3a6f44
NM
401928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4020 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4021 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4022 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4023
402429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4025 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4026 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4027
ea3a6f44
NM
402830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4029 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4030 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4031 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4032
ea3a6f44
NM
403331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4034 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4035 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4036
ea3a6f44
NM
403731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4038 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4039
ea3a6f44
NM
404032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4041 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4042 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4043 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4044 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4045 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4046 is going on).
bbe902f0 4047
ea3a6f44
NM
404833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4049 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4050 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4051 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4052 CAN-2005-0021
4053
ea3a6f44
NM
405434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4055 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4056 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4057 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4058 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4059 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4060 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4061
4062 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4063 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4064 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4065 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4066 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4067 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4068 CAN-2005-0021
4069
ea3a6f44
NM
407035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4071 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4072 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4073 CAN-2005-0022
4074
ea3a6f44
NM
407536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4076 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4077 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4078 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4079 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4080
ea3a6f44
NM
408137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4082 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4083 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4084 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4085 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4086
ea3a6f44
NM
408738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4088 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4089 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4090 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4091 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4092
4093
495ae4b0
PH
4094Exim version 4.43
4095-----------------
4096
4097 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4098 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4099 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4100 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4101 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4102 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4103 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4104
4105 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4106 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4107 the delivery.
4108
4109 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4110
4111 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4112
4113 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4114 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4115 to local_scan().
4116
4117 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4118 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4119 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4120 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4121 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4122
4123 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4124 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4125
4126 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4127
4128 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4129
413010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4131 header_sender only.
4132
413311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4134 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4135
413612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4137 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4138 affecting debugging statements).
4139
414013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4141
414214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4143 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4144 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4145 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4146 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4147 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4148 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4149 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4150 after the received time, and all would be well.
4151
415215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4153 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4154 condition in an expansion string.
4155
415616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4157
415817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4159 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4160 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4161 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4162 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4163 job under whatever limits there are.
4164
416518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4166
416719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4168 space).
4169
417020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4171 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4172 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4173 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4174 return path is set.
4175
417621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4177 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4178 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4179 binary data in such strings.
4180
418122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4182
418323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4184 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4185 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4186 failure, which is pointless.
4187
418824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4189
419025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4191
419226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4193 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4194 Sender: header lines.
4195
419627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4197 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4198 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4199
420028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4201 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4202 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4203 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4204 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4205 happens.
4206
420729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4208 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4209 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4210 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4211 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4212
421330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4214 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4215 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4216 1024.
4217
421831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4219 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4220
422132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4222 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4223
422433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4225
422632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4227
422833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4229
423034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4231 syntax error.
4232
423335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4234
423536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4236
423737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4238 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4239 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4240 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4241
424238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4243 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4244
4245
4246Exim version 4.42
4247-----------------
4248
4249 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4250 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4251 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4252 it was not quoted.
4253 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4254 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4255 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4256 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4257 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4258 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4259
4260 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4261 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4262 verification failure".
4263
4264 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4265 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4266 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4267 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4268
4269 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4270 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4271 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4272 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4273 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4274 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4275 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4276 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4277 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4278 treated as a timeout.
4279
4280 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4281 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4282 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4283 not set for Exim filters).
4284
4285 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4286 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4287 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4288
4289 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4290
4291 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4292 try to make them clearer.
4293
4294 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4295 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4296
4297 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4298
4299 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4300
430110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4302 only the Cygwin environment.
4303
430411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4305 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4306 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4307 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4308 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4309
431012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4311 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4312 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4313 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4314 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4315 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4316 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4317
431813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4319 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4320
432114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4322
4323 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4324 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4325 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4326
4327 To: susanne@some.where
4328
4329 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4330 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4331 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4332 of addresses in From: header lines).
4333
4334 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4335 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4336 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4337
4338 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4339 treated as non-personal.
4340
4341 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4342 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4343
434415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4345
434616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4347
434817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4349 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4350 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4351
435218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4353 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4354
435519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4356 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4357 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4358 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4359 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4360 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4361
436220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4363 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4364 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4365 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4366 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4367 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4368 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4369 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4370
4371 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4372
437321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4374 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4375
437622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4377 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4378 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4379
438023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4381 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4382
438324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4384 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4385 rather than long int.
4386
438725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4388
438926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4390
4391
4392Exim version 4.41
4393-----------------
4394
4395 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4396 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4397 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4398 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4399 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4400 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4401
4402
4403Exim version 4.40
4404-----------------
4405
4406 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4407 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4408
4409 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4410 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4411 socklen_t is defined.
4412
4413 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4414 always exist.
4415
4416 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4417 configured.
4418
4419 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4420 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4421 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4422 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4423 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4424
4425 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4426 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4427 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4428 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4429
4430 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4431 of flapping under certain conditions.
4432
4433 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4434 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4435 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4436
4437 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4438
443910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4440
444111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4442 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4443 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4444 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4445
444612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4447 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4448 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4449 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4450 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4451 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4452 preserved with the message after it was received.
4453
445413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4455 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4456 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4457 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4458 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4459 test suite worked just fine.
4460
446114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4462 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4463 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4464
446515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4466 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4467 string.
4468
446916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4470 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4471 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4472 does not fully solve it.
4473
447417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4475 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4476 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4477 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4478 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4479
448018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4481 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4482 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4483
448419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4485 string, for example:
4486
4487 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4488
4489 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4490 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4491 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4492 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4493 the routers could not see them.
4494
449520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4496 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4497
449821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4499 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4500 output).
4501
450222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4503 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4504 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4505 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4506 that needed quoting.
4507
450823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4509 was not being matched caselessly.
4510
451124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4512 backslashes.
4513
451425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4515 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4516 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4517 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4518 when use_sender is false.
4519
452026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4521
452227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4523
452428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4525
452629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4527 the configuration file.
4528
452930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4530 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4531
453231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4533
453432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4535 bytes in the message body.
4536
453733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4538 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4539 delivery.
4540
454134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4542
454335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4544
454536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4546 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4547 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4548 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4549 another IP address.
4550
4551
4552Exim version 4.34
4553-----------------
4554
4555 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4556 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4557
4558 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4559 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4560 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4561 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4562 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4563
4564 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4565 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4566
4567 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4568 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4569 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4570
4571 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4572 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4573 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4574
4575 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4576 for routers.
4577
4578 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4579 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4580 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4581 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4582 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4583 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4584 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4585
4586
4587Exim version 4.33
4588-----------------
4589
4590 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4591 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4592 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4593 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4594 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4595 default (and expected) setting.
4596
4597 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4598 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4599 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4600 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4601
4602 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4603 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4604
4605 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4606 in domain lists.
4607
4608 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4609 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4610 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4611 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4612 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4613 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4614
4615 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4616 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4617 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4618
4619 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4620 part (NOT match_host).
4621
4622 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4623
4624 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4625 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4626 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4627 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4628 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4629 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4630 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4631 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4632 the same named file.
4633
463410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4635 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4636 when Exim is built.
4637
463811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4639 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4640 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4641 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4642 a host name.
4643
464412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4645 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4646 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4647
464813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4649
465014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4651
465215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4653
465416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4655 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4656
465717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4658 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4659 before starting the TLS session.
4660
466118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4662
466319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4664 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4665
466620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4667 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4668 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4669 colon in the middle).
4670
4671
4672Exim version 4.32
4673-----------------
4674
4675 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4676 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4677 multiple configurations are in use.
4678
4679 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4680 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4681 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4682 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4683 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4684 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4685
4686 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4687 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4688
4689 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4690 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4691 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4692
4693 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4694 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4695 occurs.
4696
4697 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4698 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4699
4700 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4701
4702 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4703 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4704
4705 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4706
4707 -prval:sval
4708
4709 is equivalent to
4710
4711 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4712
4713 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4714 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4715 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4716 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4717 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4718
471910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4720 Exim's behaviour:
4721
4722 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4723 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4724 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4725 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4726 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4727 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4728
4729 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4730 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4731 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4732 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4733 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4734 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4735 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4736 string.
4737
4738 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4739 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4740 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4741 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4742 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4743
474411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4745
474612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4747 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4748 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4749
475013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4751
475214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4753 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4754 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4755 information.
4756
475715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4758 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4759
476016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4761 Three changes have been made:
4762
4763 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4764 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4765 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4766 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4767 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4768
4769 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4770 been restored.
4771
4772 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4773 the modified behaviour.
4774
4775
4776Exim version 4.31
4777-----------------
4778
4779 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4780 Larry Rosenman.
4781
4782 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4783 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4784
4785 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4786 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4787 try to track down a specific problem.
4788
4789 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4790 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4791 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4792
4793 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4794 warning.
4795
4796 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4797 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4798 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4799 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4800 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4801 some earlier ones do not.
4802
4803 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4804
4805 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4806 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4807 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4808 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4809 address literals are enabled, of course).
4810
4811 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4812
481310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4814 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4815 by a command such as
4816
4817 exim -f "" ...
4818
4819 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4820
482111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4822
482312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4824 remained set. It is now erased.
4825
482613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4827 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4828
482914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4830 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4831 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4832 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4833 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4834 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4835 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4836 appropriate error code.
4837
483815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4839 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4840 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4841 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4842 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4843 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4844
484516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4846 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4847 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4848
484917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4850 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4851 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4852 terminate the header.
4853
485418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4855 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4856 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4857
485819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4859 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4860 (4.30/29). In particular:
4861
4862 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4863 imposed.
4864
4865 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4866 to write a maildirsize file.
4867
4868 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4869 the transport, the new value overrides.
4870
4871 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4872 count.
4873
487420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4875 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4876 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4877 space or a tab.
4878
487921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4880 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4881 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4882 the fallback hosts.
4883
488422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4885 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4886 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4887
488823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4889 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4890 using a union.
4891
489224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4893 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4894 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4895
489625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4897
489826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4899
490027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4901
490228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4903 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4904 become corrupted.
4905
490629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4907 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4908 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4909 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4910 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4911 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4912 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4913 too great.
4914
491530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4916 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4917 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4918 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4919 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4920 incorrectly.
4921
492231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4923 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4924 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4925 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4926 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4927 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4928 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4929 cached value only when the same options are set.
4930
493132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4932
493333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4934 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4935 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4936 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4937 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4938
493934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4940 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4941 it is clearly obsolete.
4942
494335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4944 transport.
4945
494636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4947 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4948 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4949 times.
4950
495137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4952 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4953 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4954 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4955 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4956
495738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4958 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4959 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4960 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4961
496239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4963
4964 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4965
4966 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4967 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4968 2^31.
4969
497040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4971 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4972 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4973 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4974 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4975 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4976 $localpart_data.
4977
497841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4979 with the -f command-line option.
4980
498142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4982 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4983 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4984 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4985 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4986 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4987
498843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4989 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4990 line.
4991
499244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4993 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4994 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4995 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4996 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4997 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4998 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4999 buffer is too small.
5000
500145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5002 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5003
500446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5005 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5006 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5007 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5008 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5009 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5010 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5011 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5012 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5013
501447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5015 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5016 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5017
501848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5019 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5020 ACL").
5021
502249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5023 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5024 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5025 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5026 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5027
502850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5029 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5030 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5031 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5032 is set.
5033
503451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5035
503652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5037
503853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5039 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5040
504154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5042 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5043 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5044
504555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5046 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5047 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5048 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5049 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5050
505156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5052 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5053 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5054 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5055 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5056 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5057 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5058
505957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5060 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5061 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5062 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5063 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5064 the test of how many are available.
5065
506658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5067 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5068 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5069 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5070 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5071 new message is started.
5072
507359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5074 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5075
507660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5077 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5078
507961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5080 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5081 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5082 is no long logged.
5083
508462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5085 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5086 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5087 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5088 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5089 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5090 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5091
509263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5093 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5094 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5095 interpreted as octal.
5096
509764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5098 setting.
5099
510065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5101 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5102 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5103 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5104 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5105 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5106
510766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5108 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5109 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5110 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5111
5112 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5113 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5114 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5115 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5116
5117 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5118 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5119 is a bug fix.
5120
5121 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5122 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5123
512467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5125
512668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5127 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5128 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5129 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5130
513169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5132 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5133 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5134 supplied", which is not helpful.
5135
513670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5137 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5138 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5139
514071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5141 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5142 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5143 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5144 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5145 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5146 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5147 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5148
514972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5150 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5151 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5152 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5153 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5154
515573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5156 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5157 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5158 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5159 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5160 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5161
516274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5163 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5164 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5165
516675. Added write_rejectlog option.
5167
516876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5169 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5170 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5171 variables.
5172
517377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5174
517578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5176 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5177 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5178 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5179 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5180 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5181 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5182 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5183
518479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5185 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5186 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5187 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5188 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5189
519080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5191 Haardt.
5192
519381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5194 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5195 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5196 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5197 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5198 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5199 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5200 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5201 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5202
5203
5204Exim version 4.30
5205-----------------
5206
5207 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5208 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5209 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5210
5211 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5212 fixed.
5213
5214 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5215 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5216 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5217
5218 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5219 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5220 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5221 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5222 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5223 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5224
5225 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5226 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5227 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5228 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5229 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5230 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5231 the Exim test suite.
5232
5233 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5234 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5235 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5236 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5237
5238 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5239 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5240 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5241 specify it in this variable.
5242
5243 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5244 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5245 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5246 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5247
5248 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5249 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5250 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5251 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5252
5253 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5254 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5255 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5256 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5257 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5258
5259 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5260
526110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5262 they are logged.
5263
526411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5265 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5266 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5267 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5268 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5269
527012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5271 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5272
527313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5274 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5275 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5276 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5277 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5278
527914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5280 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5281
528215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5283 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5284 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5285
528616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5287 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5288
528917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5290 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5291
529218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5293 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5294 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5295
529619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5297 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5298
529920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5300 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5301 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5302 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5303
530421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5305
530622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5307 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5308 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5309 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5310
531123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5312
531324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5314 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5315
531625. Added .include_if_exists.
5317
531826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5319 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5320 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5321 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5322 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5323 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5324
532527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5326
532728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5328 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5329 this.
5330
533129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5332
533330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5334 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5335
5336 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5337 550 Sender verify failed
5338
5339 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5340 the final line of the response.
5341
534231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5343 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5344 all other user lookups.
5345
534632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5347 delivery time.
5348
534933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5350 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5351 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5352 result into an int without checking.
5353
535434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5355 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5356 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5357
535835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5359 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5360 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5361 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5362
536336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5364 correctly.
5365
536637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5367 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5368
536938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5370 to the empty sender.
5371
537239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5373 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5374 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5375 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5376 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5377 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5378 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5379 panic log.
5380
538140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5382 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5383 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5384 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5385 used.
5386
538741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5388 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5389
539042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5391 timestamps.
5392
539343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5394 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5395
539644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5397
539845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5399 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5400 logs.
5401
540246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5403 as soon as it is encountered.
5404
540547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5406
540748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5408 rewritten to "<>".
5409
541049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5411 recognizes a tab character.
5412
541350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5414 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5415 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5416 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5417
541851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5419
542052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5421 crash.
5422
542353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5424
542554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5426
542755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5428 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5429 2822.
5430
543156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5432 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5433 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5434 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5435 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5436
543757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5438 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5439
544058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5441 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5442 list (.included file names were always shown).
5443
544459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5445 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5446 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5447 root at that time.
5448
544960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5450 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5451
545261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5453
545462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5455
545663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5457
545864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5459 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5460 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5461 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5462 failures to open the logs.
5463
546465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5465 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5466 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5467 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5468 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5469 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5470 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5471
5472
5473Exim version 4.24
5474-----------------
5475
5476 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5477 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5478 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5479 change 4.23/1.
5480
5481 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5482 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5483 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5484
5485 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5486 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5487 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5488
5489 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5490 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5491 causing some misleading effects.
5492
5493 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5494 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5495 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5496
5497 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5498 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5499 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5500 queue-runner function directly.
5501
5502
5503Exim version 4.23
5504-----------------
5505
5506 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5507 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5508
5509 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5510 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5511 was always written to the default place.
5512
5513 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5514 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5515 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5516
5517 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5518
5519 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5520
5521 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5522 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5523 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5524
5525 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5526 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5527 must start.
5528
5529 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5530 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5531 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5532
5533 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5534 command line option is disabled.
5535
5536 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5537 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5538
5539 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5540
5541 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5542
5543 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5544 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5545
554610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5547
554811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5549 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5550 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5551 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5552 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5553 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5554
555512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5556 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5557 timeout.
5558
555913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5560 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5561
556214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5563 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5564
556515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5566 received was valid base64.
5567
556816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5569 name of the variable that was being set.
5570
557117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5572
557318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5574 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5575 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5576 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5577 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5578 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5579
558019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5581
558220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5583 nor realm was specified.
5584
558521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5586 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5587 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5588 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5589
559022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5591 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5592 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5593
559423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5595 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5596 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5597
559824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5599 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5600 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5601 some systems use these upper case variants.
5602
560325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5604 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5605 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5606 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5607
560826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5609
561027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5611 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5612
561328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5614 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5615 expansion variable.
5616
561729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5618
561930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5620 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5621 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5622 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5623
562431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5625 using it.
5626
562732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5628 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5629 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5630
563133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5632 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5633
563434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5635 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5636 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5637 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5638
563935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5640 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5641 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5642
564336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5644
564537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5646 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5647 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5648 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5649 aborted.
5650
565138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5652 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5653 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5654
565539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5656
565740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5658 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5659
566041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5661 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5662
566342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5664 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5665 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5666 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5667 when emails are that large.
5668
5669
5670
5671Exim version 4.22
5672-----------------
5673
5674 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5675 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5676
5677 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5678 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5679 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5680
5681 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5682 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5683 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5684
5685 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5686 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5687 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5688 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5689 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5690
5691 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5692 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5693 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5694 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5695 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5696 ever.
5697
5698 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5699 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5700 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5701 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5702 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5703 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5704 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5705 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5706 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5707 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5708 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5709 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5710 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5711 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5712
5713 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5714 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5715 parameterised it.
5716
5717 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5718 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5719 error should be diagnosed.
5720
5721 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5722 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5723 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5724 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5725 appeared instead of "NULL".
5726
572710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5728 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5729 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5730 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5731 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5732 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5733 proceeds).
5734
5735 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5736 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5737 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5738
5739
5740Exim version 4.21
5741-----------------
5742
5743 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5744 or receiver verification errors.
5745
5746 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5747 name.
5748
5749 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5750 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5751 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5752 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5753
5754 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5755 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5756 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5757 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5758 shouldn't happen again.
5759
5760 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5761 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5762 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5763
5764 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5765 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5766
5767 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5768
5769 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5770 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5771
5772 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5773 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5774 RFC.
5775
577610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5777 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5778 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5779
578011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5781 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5782 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5783 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5784
578512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5786 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5787 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5788 to define what should happen).
5789
579013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5791 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5792 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5793
579414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5795
579615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5797
579816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5799 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5800
580117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5802 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5803 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5804 structure in all cases.
5805
5806 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5807 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5808 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5809 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5810
581118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5812 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5813 domain name.
5814
581519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5816 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5817
581820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5819 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5820
582121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5822 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5823 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5824
582522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5826 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5827 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5828
582923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5830 the book and for uniformity.
5831
583224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5833
583425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5835 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5836 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5837 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5838 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5839 non-existent command as the problem.
5840
584126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5842 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5843 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5844
584527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5846
584728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5848 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5849 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5850
585129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5852 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5853 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5854 timestamps using strftime().
5855
585630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5857 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5858
585932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5860 transport-time rewrites.
5861
586233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5863 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5864 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5865 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5866
586734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5868 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5869
587035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5871 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5872 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5873 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5874 comma and a space.
5875
587636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5877 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5878 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5879 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5880 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5881 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5882 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5883
588437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5885 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5886 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5887 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5888 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5889
589038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5891 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5892 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5893 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5894 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5895 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5896 remaining text gets split now.
5897
589839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5899 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5900 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5901 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5902
590340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5904 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5905 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5906 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5907 $return_path.
5908
590941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5910 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5911 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5912 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5913 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5914 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5915 passed through if needed.
5916
591742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5918 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5919 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5920 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5921 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5922 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5923
592443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5925 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5926 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5927 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5928 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5929
593044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5931 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5932 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5933 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5934 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5935
593645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5937 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5938 noticed.
5939
594046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5941 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5942 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5943 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5944 mayhem of various kinds.
5945
594647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5947 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5948 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5949 the right test for positive values.
5950
595148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5952 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5953 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5954 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5955 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5956 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5957 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5958 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5959 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5960 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5961 envelope.
5962
596349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5964 module.
5965
596650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5967 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5968 forbidding it.
5969
597051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5971 the existing equality matching.
5972
597352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5974 dealing with inode numbers.
5975
597653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5977 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5978 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5979
598054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5981 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5982 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5983 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5984 local_scan().
5985
598655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5987 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5988 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5989 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5990 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5991 relay addresses has also been removed.
5992
599356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5994
599557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5996 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5997 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5998
599958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6000 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6001 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6002 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6003 processing applies to CR:
6004
6005 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6006 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6007
6008 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6009 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6010 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6011 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6012
601359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6014 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6015 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6016
601760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6018 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6019 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6020 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6021 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6022 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6023 arisen.
6024
602561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6026 program routers.
6027
602862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6029 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6030 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6031 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6032 adds:
6033
6034 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6035
6036 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6037
6038 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6039
604063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6041 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6042 not considered personal.
6043
604464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6045
604665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6047
604866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6049
605067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6051 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6052 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6053 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6054 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6055 header lines, and spool format errors.
6056
605768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6058 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6059 for more flexibility.
6060
606169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6062 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6063 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6064
606570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6066 Sabourenkov.
6067
606871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6069 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6070 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6071 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6072 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6073 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6074 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6075 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6076 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6077
607872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6079 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6080 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6081 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6082 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6083 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6084 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6085
608673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6087 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6088 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6089
609074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6091 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6092 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6093 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6094 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6095 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6096 instead of killing the process with assert().
6097
609875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6099 than Unicode encoding.
6100
610176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6102 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6103 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6104 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6105
610677. Added process_log_path.
6107
610878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6109 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6110
611179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6112 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6113
611480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6115 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6116 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6117
611881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6119 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6120 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6121 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6122 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6123 were applied:
6124
6125 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6126 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6127 as invalid.
6128
612982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6130 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6131 they will be used during message reception.
6132
6133
6134Exim version 4.20
6135-----------------
6136
6137The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6138
6139****